Overclocking with an 500w 80 Plus WHITE PSU

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Hi guys, im want to overclock my i7 3770k 3,5GHz to 4,2GHz with a Sentey PSU (500W 80 Plus WHITE). My question is if this PSU it's enough for the overclock. My specs are:
CPU: i7 3770k 3,5GHz
GPU: RX 470 4GB Asus STRIX
RAM: 2x8GB RAM HyperX Kingston DDR3
PSU: Sentey 500W 80 Plus WHITE Steel-Nitro
MOTHERBOARD: Motherboard Z77-D3H Gigabyte
COOLER: Hyper 212 EVO Cooler

Thanks!
 
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Darkbreeze
There are no professional reviews of that unit to base a judgement on, but I'll say this. Historically Sentey's units haven't been horrible. They also haven't been great.

In my opinion, since your system WITH an RX 470 brings a recommendation for a 450w unit from RealHardTechX, which fudges just a little towards the side of caution anyhow, I don't see that Sentey unit at 500w, IF it's able to sustain 500w and isn't just listing it's peak power capacity, being able to safely provide the additional power required to run that system safely if increase the CPU frequency by 700mhz which is going to require a bump in core voltage.

Plus, I seriously doubt that PSU has high enough quality to stay in spec on voltage and ripple if you are...
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There are no professional reviews of that unit to base a judgement on, but I'll say this. Historically Sentey's units haven't been horrible. They also haven't been great.

In my opinion, since your system WITH an RX 470 brings a recommendation for a 450w unit from RealHardTechX, which fudges just a little towards the side of caution anyhow, I don't see that Sentey unit at 500w, IF it's able to sustain 500w and isn't just listing it's peak power capacity, being able to safely provide the additional power required to run that system safely if increase the CPU frequency by 700mhz which is going to require a bump in core voltage.

Plus, I seriously doubt that PSU has high enough quality to stay in spec on voltage and ripple if you are pushing it that hard, that close to it's maximum capacity. My vote would be to not do it without at least a good 550w unit. 600-750w would be a lot better, IF, it's a good, stable unit. Going and getting a crappy 800w Raidmax unit isn't the same thing as having a very good 650w Corsair, Seasonic, EVGA or Antec unit.
 
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