Graphics card/Power supply question

puertojuan123

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I am planning on upgrading my GPU for my pc. I am worried that my 450w power supply will barely feed my GPU and all my other components. the gtx 1060 6gb I will be buying needs 400w according to the Nvidia website. I don't know if my other components will be able to get the necessary power it needs. so my question is, will my pc (specs listed below) will be able to comfortably hand a gtx 1060 with a 450w power supply or do I need to upgrade my power supply?

My Computer:
Processor: 3.8 GHz AMD FX
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 1024 GB SATAIII
Graphics Coprocessor: AMD
Card Description: Radeon R7 250
Graphics Card Ram Size: 2048 MB
Number of USB 2.0 Ports 7
 
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Quality of the power supply has to be taken into account. A high quality 450W PSU would be preferable to a low quality 500W PSU. A bad PSU can cause damage to the rest of your system. I would also double check the graphics card manufacturer for minimum power requirements too as they can occasionally be different from Nvidia's 'stock' requirement (as it were).

Personally I would use the power supply tier chart as a place to start on quality, though JonnyGuru's site has a lot of information too.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
Quality of the power supply has to be taken into account. A high quality 450W PSU would be preferable to a low quality 500W PSU. A bad PSU can cause damage to the rest of your system. I would also double check the graphics card manufacturer for minimum power requirements too as they can occasionally be different from Nvidia's 'stock' requirement (as it were).

Personally I would use the power supply tier chart as a place to start on quality, though JonnyGuru's site has a lot of information too.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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