What PSU wattage do I need?

klugamer · Sep 6, 2017

What wattage do I need for:
- Asus PRIME Z270-K motherboard
- overclocked i7-7700K
- GTX 1080 ARMOR

Will a 550W suffice or safer to go 650W?

QwerkyPengwen · Sep 6, 2017

550w will do fine. depends on the PSU itself though for quality.
Refer to this thread.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

jankerson · Sep 6, 2017

klugamer :

I am running a Seasonic X-Series 650w in mine, see specs in sig.

klugamer · Sep 7, 2017

Would a Corsair CS 550W be good enough?

jankerson · Sep 7, 2017

klugamer :

I would recommend a better unit, the CS series is more of a low mid range PSU, not really ment for a gaming machine, it's a Tier 3 PSU.

You need a Tier one or Tier Two PSU.

Like this one:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/sMM323/evga-supernova-g3-550w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-220-g3-0550