Does the "ASUS GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Phoenix Fan Edition" will work for my PC?

Rajiv17

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My Specs:

CPU = Intel Core i5 2320 [Sandy Bridge]

MOBO. = Gigabyte GA-H61M-S [PCI-EX 16 Gen. 3]

RAM = 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)

HDD: 931GB Western Digital

PSU: iBall ZPS-281 [Maximum output 450 watts]

Please guide me through :(
 
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DSzymborski

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No, no, no, no! A thousand times, no, but a mod's going to get upset if I post "no" a thousand times.

Here are the output specs for the iBall ZPS-281:

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You don't actually have a 450W power supply. You have what is, for all intents and purposes, a 132W power supply.

There's no real 450W power supply available for 857 rupees ($13 in US dollars).

 

Dark Lord of Tech

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Very good point!
 

Rajiv17

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@DSzymborski Thanks for your post. I'm really noob at this Could you please elaborate it How in the world that means "132W". IBall is one of the reputed company in India If they cheat like this in grand manner then to whom we should trust? :(
 

DSzymborski

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I've never seen a reputable iball PSU. Little protections, fake labels, the lowest-tier of dodgy fly-by-night Chinese capacitors. An actual 450W PSU will *start* at three times that price and that's in the United States, where the prices tend to be better than India.

What it means is that the modern PC components use +12V power. The PSU can only offer 11 A of +12V power, which means that you have 132W for *anything* that uses +12V power, which includes the CPU and the GPU. No modern, reputable PSUs are designed like this, it's essentially a cut-to-the-bone implementation of a power supply designed for a PC from 1995. And you can add the output label yourself, it's not theoretically even a 450W PSU because the numbers don't come close.

Your best case scenario is that your PC doesn't turn on at all. A worse-case scenario is that your PC runs for awhile while the junk PSU slowly -- or quickly -- damages the parts. The worst-case scenario, well, this is what frequently happens when you try to run the junk-tier PSUs at load.



 

Rajiv17

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Well i got your point that its better to avoid such junky PSU from those useless brand like iBall but i have one question The, "Corsair VS Series VS450 - 450 Watt SMPS " also use a dedicated single +12V rail . So it means that "Corsair VS Series VS450 ...." will give you "132W" too? :/
 

DSzymborski

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The VS isn't a great PSU -- it's Corsair's very basic PSU sold overseas and uses fairly low-end parts -- it at least *is* a PSU. It has 34A on the +12V rail, meaning it can give you 408W of +12V power. Not a PSU I'd recommend purchasing due to capacitor choice and voltage regulation, but world's better than the iball bottom-feeders, and if you absolutely cannot budget any higher, it's ought to be OK on a build like this, even if I wouldn't be thrilled with the idea.
 
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