ryzen 3000 and a single 580/590 which psu?

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looking at refreshing my old Evga Hadron, which comes stock with a 500w gold psu

would it be asking too much of it to run a new ryzen and a decent gpu do you reckon?

 

[Jamin280672]

looking at refreshing my old Evga Hadron, which comes stock with a 500w gold psu

would it be asking too much of it to run a new ryzen and a decent gpu do you reckon?

It depends what else you have in the system, the RX 590 is about 200 watts, the cpu requires 100 at stock, so theres 300 gone, motherboard is nothing.......depending on LED's etc, hard drives, sound cards, fans etc.

 

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its will be getting built into a evga hadron, so built in psu albeit a chunky little thing with what i'm told is pretty decent specs

not much room for anything else in there so will be mobo/cpu 2 mechanicals and a ssd and gpu

 

[Donnie Fisher]

I think you'd maybe be tight with 500w but you'd likely get away with it if there isn't much else in the system.

 

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maybe even an entry level new ryzen 8 core would be lovely

the evga hadron does have a beast of a psu though, 40a on the 12v rail

 

[Drumroll]

I would pay attention to how much power can supply at different rails.
As you mentioned is a strong 12V rail, but some GPU are really hungry, so power output alone can't be a determinant factor.
500W, even from a Gold PSU is quite short for the new generation, considering that even the motherboards would need more power, hence the active cooling.
If you get a less power-hungry GPU, fine, then going for a hungry one would need a new PSU, quite sure.