PSU wattage

Hello,
I'm running my system way under the recommended wattage 520W and the calculators say I should be at 950+. How ever everything is running fine?
What happens if I continue to run this way?

What hardware do you have in your system?

I dont think theres anyway you need a 950. I just did three different calculators for my system and all of them were completely different. Nvidia recommends a 550W for that card so id go a little bigger than a 520W. Newegg has some good deals on a corsair 650W for only $65 i think. From what ive read, having a power supply that is too small would only result in computer crashes due to the psu not having enough power to support all the components at the time. If you havent had any problems with crashes you should be fine but how often do you stress your system? Long periods of gaming might cause the system to crash from using too much power.

Ya. I was in the same situation because i only have a 750W and just the cards recommend that but those ratings are overestimated. Ive had maybe two random blue screens but i dont think any damage can be done so i wouldnt worry about anything. Its would just be an inconvience during long gaming periods.

Did you plug it in with like 40% capacitor aging on the antec calculator?

A system like that would be fine on a decent 500W unit, as ko888 has said, whats the make and model of your current PSU?

Firstly, what system do you have? Please list CPU, GPU primarily, if have an excessive number of HDDs and/or fans then mention them as well.

And who or what is recommending a 950W PSU for your system?

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• PSU under wattage

I don't think I would use an Apevia.