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620W enough for a 560 Ti?

Morgy

Morgy

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I'm thinking of buying a 560 Ti to replace my ageing 8800 GT. My current system has a Q6600, an X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card, a single hard drive and a single DVD drive, and it's powered by a Corsair 620W modular power supply. I don't have anything OC'd, and I don't plan to OC the new card either. I've read on the NVidia website that 500W is the recommended minimum, but how much extra is needed for it to run comfortably? Will the 620W be plenty?

While I'm posting, any thoughts on the choice of card? I'm looking for a decent mid-high card that gives you the best bang for your buck before you start getting into the "bleeding edge", just like the 8800 GT was at the time. Is the 560 Ti in that same sweet spot amongst todays cards?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated :)
 
That should easily run it, I'm planning on putting a 7970 on my Corsair 620W. Unless you have a dozen hard drives hooked up and change your mind about overclocking you'll be fine
 
The PSU will be fine.

I have GTX560 SLI and a 4.5Ghz 2500k on a HX620.

Takes about 450W from the socket which is ~ 380W DC from the 600W (50A) rated @ 12V.

I had one power outage when I had the cards @ 950Mhz so keep it at 900Mhz or below now and it's fine even after half a dozen hours.

A single card with a stock Q6000 will be more in the region of 250W

You'll need to OC the Q6600 to get the best out of the card though

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Morgy said:
I'm thinking of buying a 560 Ti to replace my ageing 8800 GT. My current system has a Q6600, an X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card, a single hard drive and a single DVD drive, and it's powered by a Corsair 620W modular power supply. I don't have anything OC'd, and I don't plan to OC the new card either. I've read on the NVidia website that 500W is the recommended minimum, but how much extra is needed for it to run comfortably? Will the 620W be plenty?

While I'm posting, any thoughts on the choice of card? I'm looking for a decent mid-high card that gives you the best bang for your buck before you start getting into the "bleeding edge", just like the 8800 GT was at the time. Is the 560 Ti in that same sweet spot amongst todays cards?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated :)
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I am running an overclocked 480GTX with an i5 sandybridge at 4.4ghz, 16gb ram and 4 hard drives on a 620w corsair.....

you will be fine.
 
Thanks for all the responses guys, I ordered my 560 Ti last night. Will be great to finally have a playable framerate in BF3 :)
 
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