Minimum power required for SLI (2x GTX 560 Ti Hawk)

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ale3ko

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Hello guys, i would like your help, feel free to tell me your advice.
So, i have a system with an i5 2500k (not overclocked), 8gb of ram, a 60gb ssd, a 500gb hdd, one gtx560 ti Hawk edition and an enermax 620w 80 plus power supply. I am looking forward on adding one more Gtx560 Ti hawk edition on my system. My questioning is this, will the power supply hold up with the 2 cards? Any advice given will be well noticed, thanks in advance guys !!

 
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That should be OK. 600W is the recommended size for dual GTX 560 Ti Boosts, so that should be fine for the regular 560 Ti. But be sure your board's 2nd PCIe x16 slot is at least 8 lanes. SLI won't work with x4 lanes. And be sure your board actually does SLI. Some older boards were CF or SLI.
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That should be OK. 600W is the recommended size for dual GTX 560 Ti Boosts, so that should be fine for the regular 560 Ti. But be sure your board's 2nd PCIe x16 slot is at least 8 lanes. SLI won't work with x4 lanes. And be sure your board actually does SLI. Some older boards were CF or SLI.
 
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ale3ko

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I took that factor in mind as i was building my system, my board fully supports SLI, my only problem was wether the power supply would handle the consumption or not. Thank you very much guys for the recommendation, that's what i wanted to hear, a power supply upgrade was not in planes ;P
 
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ale3ko

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I thought about that too, but my graphics card requirements are not that high. I just have some fps drops and it is really annoying, so by adding another card i will be more than satisfied. Another question i have is about the second card, i have found some used cards, would you recommend me not to go with a used card, or there isn't a problem?
 
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One never knows what one is going to end up with when one buys used. If you can buy it from someone you know, it would be OK. But when you buy used from strangers, you never know. I estimate that I have had about a 75% success rate dealing with sellers on ebay. Some items I could send back for refunds because they didn't work. Some items I had to eat.
 
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