PSU Wattage

CalO3822

CalO3822

CalO3822

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Hello Guys.
I have a 500 watt psu but after upgrading to more fans i have used a psu calculator and my wattage come too 530.
Would this be ok or do i really need to upgrade my psu
 
Adding a few fans isn't going to make any significant difference. If it was okay before it'll be okay now.

No way to know whether you should really have a higher capacity PSU from the information supplied.
 
CalO3822 said:
Hello Guys.
I have a 500 watt psu but after upgrading to more fans i have used a psu calculator and my wattage come too 530.
Would this be ok or do i really need to upgrade my psu
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Fans don't use a lot of power
If adding a few fans puts you over the 500w then you were too close to begin with
A lot of psu calculators are not very accurate better of finding the actual wattage of things like cpu and gpu from the manufacturers website
For fans look on the label usually it gives volts and amps
Watts equals volts X amps
If fan label said 12v and 0.3 amps
Then fan is 3.6 Watts as an example
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Fans don't use a lot of power
If adding a few fans puts you over the 500w then you were too close to begin with
A lot of psu calculators are not very accurate better of finding the actual wattage of things like cpu and gpu from the manufacturers website
For fans look on the label usually it gives volts and amps
Watts equals volts X amps
If fan label said 12v and 0.3 amps
Then fan is 3.6 Watts as an example
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Thanks for that. Just browsing the forums and I've learnt something new.

Thanks.
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
You are very welcome
Never too old to learn something new
Just as I age remembering all the stuff I learned is the problem lol
Thanks for stopping to say thank you
Always nice to know the little I do remember helps someone
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Yeah agreed. I'm 34 in 9 days and I'll be honest it's the remembering I struggle with. (in a hillbilly accent) my brain don't work too good. Haha.

You're most welcome, it wasn't little it was math. And well I'm cornish so math and I ain't friends lol

Kind regards.
 
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