What is the required power supply for a NVidia GeForce Pascal GTX 1080?

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Wayfall

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Hi community

I have only just got round to having a gander at what the requirements are for the new line of Pascal GPU's After a bit of searching on the web I found some information on the Guru site and they stated that the card would require a 850~900 Watts power supply unit, I coughed in shock as I only just replaced my old CX PSU a few months ago for a EVGA 550w.

If its true that you need this much for one just one Pascal GPU, if so then I will certainly be waiting a year before getting one as I can't afford the GPU and a 1000w PSU as well. My GTX 970 isn't even year old yet.

Is this really true?
 
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Krishan Mourya

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Not 800 watts but yes you will require around 750 Watts of power for OC'ing it, the AIB cards will be factory overclocked and will consume much amount of Power.
For you GTX 1070 will be more than enough as it beats GTX Titan X. You can get it and a 750W PSU easily under your budget. I recommend you to get the Seasonic M12-II 750W PSU.
 
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Well I'm probably going to save and buy the best of the best now I have an i7 so I will be set for the next 3 years GPU wise then.

You never know this gen of cards might be lucky enough to play the next elder scrolls game if it releases in their life spam.
 
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you can always think of it this way spending 380 on a card now instead of 600 allows u to upgrade to the next gen card every time one is released as you can sell it off for probably 200ish around that time and that next gen card (Probably 1170) will be better than the 1080 and will cost you less than it and you can upgrade every cycle as well. Unless of course you have the budget to do this with the 1080 and the next gen version of that.
 
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Well after doing more research apparently there are serious throttling issues with the 1080's that were given to reviewers and so on. It would throttle all the way from 1700mhz to like 1000mhz around about.

I wont be getting one till the price goes down a bit and fixed the cards performance issues.
 
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well yeah a lot of the time there is going to be bad thermal throttle if u use the reference cards from nvidia they have always sucked and will always suck just wait for a 3rd party one they always run much cooler and quieter
 
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Ye my MSI GTX 970 is super cool and quiet, I will prob get the MSI GTX 1080 when that is released at some point comes out.
 
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https://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-founders-edition-8gb-gddr5x-2560-core-vr-ready-graphics-card-51583-ex-vat-%286190
 
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