560Ti - PSU sufficient?

[JeditOjanen]

I'm looking to upgrade my GFX card. My current PSU is a Coolermaster Real Power M520. Will this be sufficient for a 560Ti? If not, what would you recommend as a good economical modular PSU for someone on a budget?

 

[scooby555t]

am running my 560ti on a 500watt enermax liberty psu peak powers 550, ive not had a issue yet

 

[JeditOjanen]

Hmmm. I'm asking because I've seen stats for it drawing up to 360W under load. Which model do you have - is it stock or OCed?

 

[scooby555t]

am running an evga 560ti
spec of the card Core Clock Speed 850MHz Processing Cores 384 Memory Clock Speed 4104MHz
Memory Bandwidth 131.3GB/sec Shader Clock Speed 1700MHz

and am running a q9550 oc 3.70 and water cooled

 

[bigmike20vt]

I really hope so as i plan on running mine along with a sandybridge 2500K on a Hiper 520w psu.

 

[scooby555t]

yeah i thiink you should be fine remember mines 500 and its peak is 550

 

[marc1024]

will be fine, if you plan on SLI in future id go for a good 700 watt.

 

[slim01]

shud be cool cool, for sli future though id go at least 750, xfx black edition is good and cheap.

 

[JeditOjanen]

Right, ordered. If it doesn't work then I shall blame Scooby.

 

[nelviss]

i run mine on a 600w carnt remember what prog told me but it uses 183w max, on stock.

 

[JeditOjanen]

How exactly do you measure your PC's power draw? I've found calculators, but not the thing that works out the values for those calculators.

 

[scooby555t]

Right, ordered. If it doesn't work then I shall blame Scooby.

lol na you will be fine as long as your using a decent psu by the way there cracking little cards

 

[JeditOjanen]

For the benefit of anyone reading and wondering, I got my 560Ti OC installed yesterday and it's running fine. I had no problems even while standing outside the Stormwind AH in World of Warcraft with all settings cranked to maximum, and the system temp didn't even rise. (Not that I got 60fps - I averaged 34 - but still.)

I plan to run a couple more tests using Borderlands and Rift to make sure it's happy under load, but if a 520W supply can cope with a 560Ti on my system - which has three HDDs, an SSD, a DVD-RW and two 300mm fans to cope with - then it should suffice for most other systems as well.

 

[scooby555t]

For the benefit of anyone reading and wondering, I got my 560Ti OC installed yesterday and it's running fine. I had no problems even while standing outside the Stormwind AH in World of Warcraft with all settings cranked to maximum, and the system temp didn't even rise. (Not that I got 60fps - I averaged 34 - but still.)

I plan to run a couple more tests using Borderlands and Rift to make sure it's happy under load, but if a 520W supply can cope with a 560Ti on my system - which has three HDDs, an SSD, a DVD-RW and two 300mm fans to cope with - then it should suffice for most other systems as well.

my psu 500watt peek power 550
so fan 9 fans 3 hdds high clocked q9550, 560ti and water cooling

 

[6644kp]

you will be fine 500 W is enough