Graphics Card upgrade

[TheHeadshrinker]

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone could give me a little advice.

My current system specs:

-Kolink KL-500 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply 1 CA-043-PT
-Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case 1 CM-023-PT
-Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
-Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
-Gigabyte Z370P D3 Intel Core Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
-Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual


I would like to upgrade the graphics card to either a GTX 2060, or maybe a GTX 2070. My question is woud these graphics card's be compatible in my current system? I know the power supply recommendation is 550w, which is where my concern is obviously raised.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[LePhuronn]

Half the time PSU requirements are somewhat exaggerated to stop Average Joe from buying cheapo Chinese crap and failing their systems. With a bit of tuning to voltages, both of those cards would work fine on a decent quality 500W unit (I ran an original GTX Titan on a gold-rated 450W unit with zero problems for years, for example).

I fear, though, "decent quality unit" doesn't apply to you; that Kolink PSU is utter junk. I've had 2 Kolink KL-500Ms and they both blew up on me in minutes. So if you're looking at upgrading to a chunky GPU then I'd strongly recommend getting a new PSU as well. I recently built 2 Ryzen systems with RX 570s using gold-rated Be Quiet Pure Power 11 PSUs: one was the 500W semi-modular, the other was a 600W non-modular, both stable as a rock and great price. Never, ever cheap out on the PSU, it's the most important part of your system.

As far as the actual GPU goes, the Radeon 5700 series are better than those RTX cards for the same or less money, and the ray tracing performance of the 2060 is so low you might as well not have it, so look at the 1660 Super instead.

5700, 5700 XT or 1660 Super is what I'd go for personally.

 

[Solus]

I would definitely change that power supply, it might work but it will be taxed quite hard and may prematurely fail.

 

[TheHeadshrinker]

Thanks guys