Help upgrading an ancient pc build? (PSU info)

t.galdi97

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Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a very old pc and I'm new to pc building. Hopefully you can help with my question.

The idea is to pair a pentium g4560 with a b250 board, but I'm unsure about my power supply. The current PSU is a 500W with a single +12V rail that has 8.5A. I'm worried because the amps seem to be really low. The power supply also has a 24-pin power connector and a 4-pin ATX for the cpu, and it's currently powering an ASRock AM2+ board with an AMD Sempron processor and an Nvidia GeForce 7300 se/7200 gs graphics card.

From what I've read online, the Pentium should work even with such low amps, but what if I added a GTX 1050 ti to the mix? (the card sips 75W from the mobo with no additional power cables needed)

Should I upgrade the PSU as well as the other components? Thanks in advance.

 
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There's not a chance you can power a 1050ti with that power supply. If it only has 8.5A on the +12V rail (shockingly low, sounds like this PSU is from about 1997), then you essentially have a 100W power supply in the context of modern PC components.

DSzymborski

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There's not a chance you can power a 1050ti with that power supply. If it only has 8.5A on the +12V rail (shockingly low, sounds like this PSU is from about 1997), then you essentially have a 100W power supply in the context of modern PC components.
 
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