Is A 600W Bronze Rated 80+ PSU good for a 1070?

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I was wondering if a EVGA 600 B1, 80+ BRONZE good enough for a 1070?

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Intel Core i5 6600K 3.50 GHz
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Mini 8GB
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz
GIGABYTE GA-Z270P-D3 LGA1151
SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Solid State Drive
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80+ has nothing to do with build quality. Or protections. Or life expectancy. Or a psu packed full with the cheapest 85°C caps on the market on a mediocre platform. The only psus Evga brands worse than the B1 are the N1 and W1.

600w is also in no way representative of enough power. A gtx1070 reference is 180w, some models go as high as 230w, that's almost 20A on the 12v rail. As shown below, just the wattage alone is misleading as there's absolutely no way this 650w psu could ever power a gtx1070 with just 9A total on 12v. That's barely enough to actually run a pc.

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It's not just about the power, the quality also plays a role.
600W is enough to power your system.

According to this list, it's a Tier 5 PSU. It's not the best, but not the worst either.
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/
 
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It's pretty low quality and I wouldn't risk your system just to save a bit of money.
 
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What PSU would you reccomend?
 
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The power-supply you already have is more than capable of running your system.
It's not insane to build quality but it is 80+ certified and rated, which more than likely means it's a decent build quality.
It's not like it's gonna blow up your entire computer, worst case you're gonna blow the PSU, and even that is VERY unlikely.
Your system definitely isn't going to sustain any damage because of the PSU.

Hope this helps
-AlternativeFactsForPresident
 
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Karadjgne

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80+ has nothing to do with build quality. Or protections. Or life expectancy. Or a psu packed full with the cheapest 85°C caps on the market on a mediocre platform. The only psus Evga brands worse than the B1 are the N1 and W1.

600w is also in no way representative of enough power. A gtx1070 reference is 180w, some models go as high as 230w, that's almost 20A on the 12v rail. As shown below, just the wattage alone is misleading as there's absolutely no way this 650w psu could ever power a gtx1070 with just 9A total on 12v. That's barely enough to actually run a pc.

 
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