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Hey guys, building my first pc here, and i wanted to know if an XFX TS 430W would be enough.
The specs are: i3 4130, GTX 960 G1 Gaming or MSI Gaming. 4 gbs of ram for now, gonna add more 4, hyperx tx3, one samsung ssd, 7200rpm hd and one 5400rpm hd. Six fans (perhaps corsair sp120 quiet edition) and disc drive and maybe some leds.
Would the 430W be enough ? I went to a power supply calculator and it says that the system pulls about 315 in max load. The psu has i think is a max power of 396w. Again, would it be enough ?Thanks.
 
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Calculators are always high. They don't want you to use one and buy a PSU that won't cut it and blame the calculator. If you look at reviews of GPUs much stronger then yours you'll see that they barely go over 300W unless you are talking about the big cards. You have a 140W GPU and a sub 100W CPU. You are less then 300W. Here is one.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_oc_review,7.html

Our test system is based on a power hungry six-core Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E based setup on the X79 chipset platform. This setup is overclocked to 4.60 GHz on all cores. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark...
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There is no way it pulls that much power because that's what my 3770K, 16GBs ram, 7950/280GPU and 4 drives pull. And I'm using a 450W PSU to power all that. You are using a 960 which doesn't need a lot of power, so as long as that PSU can provide the power without using adapters you'll be fine.
 
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Why dont you instead of six fans and ssd put better CPU like i5 4460? Also r9 380 is better and cheaper. It's not a problem to add SSD in a month or two. But for games is better i5. and yes your psu would be enough.
 
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I would have prefer an i5 yes, but the fans and ssd are not for now. I will buy these in the future.
 
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eXtreme power calculator shows that the all system pulls about 313w in max load (gaming i guess).
 
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Calculators are always high. They don't want you to use one and buy a PSU that won't cut it and blame the calculator. If you look at reviews of GPUs much stronger then yours you'll see that they barely go over 300W unless you are talking about the big cards. You have a 140W GPU and a sub 100W CPU. You are less then 300W. Here is one.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_oc_review,7.html

Our test system is based on a power hungry six-core Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E based setup on the X79 chipset platform. This setup is overclocked to 4.60 GHz on all cores. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We'll be calculating the GPU power consumption here, not the total PC power consumption.

Measured power consumption GTX 960

System in IDLE = 120 Watts
System Wattage with GPU in FULL Stress = 237 Watts
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They note later that's a measurement from the wall so it doesn't take how efficient the PSU is into account. Meaning the amount of electricity the PC needs is less then 237. That number is also with the GPU under stress, not the CPU as well so the final number will be higher. They are using a massive i7 with an OC, so yours won't draw the final number like theirs is. I can see ~275ish, but while gaming I'd bet it's be closer to 250W. (assuming your PSU is 80% efficient you'd be looking at a number like they quoted of around, LOL, 313W. Again, that's what a PSU would be drawing from the wall, not what it's feeding the PC.
 
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Most power supply calculators are rather bad,
The bottom line fans, and a SSD don't draw enough power to even count.
i3 54 Watts, GTX 960 110 Watts under normal use like gaming, 70 Watts for everything else 234 Watt PC! +/- 15 watts or so.
 
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