Unsure if my power supply handles these settings

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Hey guys, i decided to build a PC of my own last year just tto practice, and i ended up buying an Asus motherboard with support for AMDs APUs. I bought an EVGA 430W 80 Plus White thinking that it would handle the settings as it was a low budget pc for practicing, and it worked well.

But i decided to go deeper and i bought some new stuff this month. The hardware i bought is:

CPU: AMD A8-7650K Black Edition (Overclockable)
RAM: 1 stick of Kingston Hyper-X 8Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
GPU: VGA NVIDIA GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 1050 Ti
OS: Windows 10
ETC: 5 usb 2.0, 3 usb 3.0, an optical drive, storage, 3 leds, etc...

I tested everything but the GPU and it works fine, but i am worried. Do you guys think my power supply will handle everything i listed here + the GTX 1050 Ti? Also, yeah, i know i should buy an FX, or an I something instead of an APU, it was meant for testing.
 
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GTX1050ti usually does not need a 6 pin aux power connector; it runs on slot power of 75w or less.
A 300w psu is sufficient.

I would normally suggest something stronger to allow for a graphics card upgrade, but with an apu, such an upgrade is largely pointless.
You buy a APU for the excellent integrated graphics.
But, there are no real good upgrades, particularly for a gamer.
If you install a superior discrete graphics card, you will have thrown away the big advantage of the APU.
Then, you are left with a relatively weak cpu. Most games depend on only a few fast cores.
The possible upgrades are to more cores, but few games will use more than 2-3 cores so more cores are not very helpful.
Bottom line.....
What you get with a APU is what...
GTX1050ti usually does not need a 6 pin aux power connector; it runs on slot power of 75w or less.
A 300w psu is sufficient.

I would normally suggest something stronger to allow for a graphics card upgrade, but with an apu, such an upgrade is largely pointless.
You buy a APU for the excellent integrated graphics.
But, there are no real good upgrades, particularly for a gamer.
If you install a superior discrete graphics card, you will have thrown away the big advantage of the APU.
Then, you are left with a relatively weak cpu. Most games depend on only a few fast cores.
The possible upgrades are to more cores, but few games will use more than 2-3 cores so more cores are not very helpful.
Bottom line.....
What you get with a APU is what you will live with forever.
 
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So theorically it would work? Ok. That's all i wanted to know. Also, yeah... I knew this was going to happen... I said it was just for testing, i do know it's pointless to have an APU and buy a GPU. Thanks anyway.