350w PSU on a brand new RIG

joshua476

joshua476

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Okay so I have just had a customisable system built by by the great guys at Overclockers.

I have got an i7-6700 / GTX 1060 6gb reference / 16gb Ram / 250gb ssd / 1tb mech.

Now this came with a 350w PSU? im just curious as to if this will be fine? I cant imagine them building a PC with an unstable PSU I just am shocked at how low it is. I only bought myself a 500w PSU a year ago for a 7 year old computer I was using.

It is a Mini motherboard if that makes any difference. Any explanations would greatly be appreciated as to why they are able to use such a low PSU on my fairly decent rig.

Thanks in advance
 
A locked 6700 and a 1060 will not suck much power. I have yet to see my pc hit 300w at the wall even with the gpu heavily overclocked while benching. Normal gaming use is in the 220-250w range at the wall depending on the game.

It's not a crappy bronze Kolink psu is it?
 
I guess it's the Forcebox Gamer that you bought and you seem to have maxed out the options?

The PSU is fine for that, it's a 350W SFX 80+ Bronze and the system power draw is much less than 250W. (TDP for CPU = 65W, GPU = 120W). Peak operating range for a PSU is 50-80% so this PSU is ideal for that spec.

The days of needing your own nuclear power plant for gaming are long gone...Anyone who thinks gaming PCs need an absolute minimum of 600W is living in the past.
 
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Oh, and on topic, people have always overestimated the power requirements of their gear. There can't be many PCs in existence that actually needed 1kW+ power supplies, yet a market clearly exists for selling them. Using modern components, an overclocked i7 system with SLI 1080s would maybe need a 600W supply?

I used to build SFF rigs in the days when there weren't so many specialist parts. ITX was the form factor for Via-based silent PCs, not gaming rigs. When ITX motherboards with PCIe slots first started to hit the market, putting together gaming rigs with the feeble power supply offerings (and cramped PC cases) was rather entertaining. It meant measuring things like actual power consumption, instead of taking wild, overly cautious guesses. The result was decent systems that pushed <400W supplies hard. Maybe not that sensible long-term, but these were machines other people were running on 650W+ supplies that cost a lot of money. I remember reading thread after thread of people encouraging others to buy larger and larger power supplies. When I built my first rig, the assumed minimum was 450W. By the time I built my last in 2011, it was 650W. Yet the electricity needed to power the components had actually fallen in this time, and has continued to fall.
 
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My old 5930k i7 with Titan XM SLI, all AIO watercooled with various disks and bits pulled 822 Watts under full load. I know this because I had a 1000 Watt PSU abd had it attached to a 750 Watt UPS which alarmed because it couldn't supply enough juice. Got a new 1000 Watt UPS and it was fine.
 
satchef1 said:
Oh, and on topic, people have always overestimated the power requirements of their gear. There can't be many PCs in existence that actually needed 1kW+ power supplies, yet a market clearly exists for selling them. Using modern components, an overclocked i7 system with SLI 1080s would maybe need a 600W supply?

I used to build SFF rigs in the days when there weren't so many specialist parts. ITX was the form factor for Via-based silent PCs, not gaming rigs. When ITX motherboards with PCIe slots first started to hit the market, putting together gaming rigs with the feeble power supply offerings (and cramped PC cases) was rather entertaining. It meant measuring things like actual power consumption, instead of taking wild, overly cautious guesses. The result was decent systems that pushed <400W supplies hard. Maybe not that sensible long-term, but these were machines other people were running on 650W+ supplies that cost a lot of money. I remember reading thread after thread of people encouraging others to buy larger and larger power supplies. When I built my first rig, the assumed minimum was 450W. By the time I built my last in 2011, it was 650W. Yet the electricity needed to power the components had actually fallen in this time, and has continued to fall.
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A couple of us where concerned with the quality of the psu not the wattage. If it is indeed the Kolink sfx psu then that concern remains. There are no reviews of any of these psu's and at those prices I doubt the quality of the internals.
 
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