GTX 970 on I5 2500K and Thermaltake Litepower 700W possible?

ramaray · Jan 3, 2016

Hello..

- Planning to upgrade my 4,5 year old rig for 1080P fluid gaming purposes. Shall i be able to run a GTX 960 OR GTX 970 4GB card with my current PSU and MOBO?

- Is my existing PSU is ok GTX 960 should i go with it?

- I read a lot of problems regarding TT LITEPOWER 700W. If the PSU is a possible problem shall a corsair vs650 do the trick for gtx 970 or 960 ??http://www.corsair.com/en/vs-seriestm-vs650-650-watt-power-supply

CPU: İ5 2500K (STOCK 3.3 GHZ, RUNNING AT 4.5GHZ WITH OC)
MOBO: ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3
RAM: DDR3 800 HZ GSKILL RIPJAWS 4GIGS X 2 (TOTAL 8GB)
PSU: THERMALTAKE LITEPOWER 700W
HDD: 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA
SDD: 240 GB SANDISK ULTRA
CASE: THERMALTAKE COMMANDER
OPTICAL DRIVE: PIONEER DVD WRITER
EXISTING GPU: ASUS GTX 560 1GB

Any help or experience will be appreciated!

rujoesmith · Jan 3, 2016

Motherboard is fine. The psu is more than enough. On my old build I had an i7 860 and an r9 390 running on only 550w.

rolli59 · Jan 3, 2016

I would go for the GTX970 substantially more powerful than the 960 and your specs are fine for it.

ramaray · Jan 3, 2016

rujoesmith :

Can you confirm my 700W Thermaltake Litepower shall be allright for a MSI, ASUS or EVGA GTX 970? The local "experts" here said they had some problems with my planned upgrade (system shutdown, BSOD, not booting etc etc)

Thank you.

ramaray · Jan 3, 2016

rolli59 :

Can you confirm my 700W Thermaltake Litepower shall be allright for a MSI, ASUS or EVGA GTX 970? The local "experts" here said they had some problems with my planned upgrade (system shutdown, BSOD, not booting etc etc)

Thank you.

rolli59 · Jan 3, 2016

Your TT is not the greatest unit and is actually a 600watt unit http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001776 which exceeds the recommendations for a system with a single GTX970 which is 500watts http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm
Because of lack of quality I would not overclock on that PSU but should work fine on standard clocks.

ramaray · Jan 3, 2016

rolli59 :

Thank you for your time sir...

ramaray · Jan 4, 2016

Thanks to your replies, i bought a msi gtx970 oc gaming 4g gpu.
CPU is running at 4.4 ghz. (Stock 3.3)
GPU is running at OC mode (MSI GAMING APP)

No problems so far. Looping with 3D MARK for hours. However test results are around 10 percent lower than top scores (similar systems).

Any specific setting in ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 BIOS thats creating a bottleneck?

rolli59 · Jan 4, 2016

That is normally what I get in scores compared to similar systems.

ramaray · Jan 4, 2016

rolli59 :

Thanks for your time again!

I'm glad i've paid a bit extra for gtx 970 and my pc rose from its ashes

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