The advice here on recommended PSUs for SLI confuses me!

phatazzbp

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Ive been doing a lot of research because I plan on adding a second GTX 970 for SLI. Now I currently have a Corsair HX650 power supply. The advice everyone gives here is that I would need a 750W PSU to run SLI, but Extreme power supply calculator is telling me that 573 Watts is recommended making my current PSU more then sufficient. Any insight here?

ps. I don't plan on OC'ing anything

Build:
AMD FX-8350
Corsair H100I Water Cooler
Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0
2X4 G-Skill RipJaw 1866 DDR3 SDRAM
EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0
Mushkin 250Gb SSD
Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM
Corsair HX650 PSU
Corsair Carbide 400R case w/4 fans
5 USB Devices
Samsung UD590 28 inch 4k Monitor

Is the 750 recommended by you guys because it would be further away from the Max of my current power supply?