Can my pc run a Gtx 1060 with 400w power supply

[Private Ryan]

So it says that my pc can handle a 1060 but I am not totally sure. People are saying I should upgrade my psu and others say it will be fine, what do you guys think

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

What the 400w psu do you have? You will be fine if it's a decent PSU that you have ATM.

[ugafan]

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[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by ugafan:

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^This.

Here a simple screen shot where to look, to get your link, when you make your list.
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[[☥] - CJ -]

a 1060 is between 150 to about 175w or so depending on the model
So if it has a 6pin PCI-E connector it COULD be doable

But thats kinda ehh either way..

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

As long as the PSU didn't cost £3.50 from China you should be ok, if it did, replace it as it likely won't be the most reliable.
Counter to popular belief, a cheap PSU will rarely do anything but just die itself, when PSU take other components with them is usually from a powers urge, though, I would never recommend buying a cheap PSU from new,using an existing one should be fine.

[shiel]

Originally posted by DefinitelyNotMonk:

As long as the PSU didn't cost £3.50 from China you should be ok, if it did, replace it as it likely won't be the most reliable.
Counter to popular belief, a cheap PSU will rarely do anything but just die itself, when PSU take other components with them is usually from a powers urge, though, I would never recommend buying a cheap PSU from new,using an existing one should be fine.

There's plenty of crap PSU's that people should avoid from a ton of bigger and smaller companies. This is why the PSU Tier list is a decent place to start for many.
http://i.imgur.com/361pNaI.png

I would still recommend a minimum of a quality 500w psu though.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Oh yeah, always buy quality, but, the need to replace an existing psu is often over exaggerated.

[Xaostic]

I would recommend a 500w PSU minimum for that GPU

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Originally posted by Xaostic:

I would recommend a 500w PSU minimum for that GPU

Why exactly? The system with a 1060 will barely use 300w

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Private Ryan:

So it says that my pc can handle a 1060 but I am not totally sure. People are saying I should upgrade my psu and others say it will be fine, what do you guys think

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

Yes. So long as your power supply is of quality build you should have no problem wit it. Noramlly I wouldn't emphasize on build quality as much, but since the GTX1050 and GTX1050ti only draw power from the PCIe slot, and no other cables, It would be wse to at least get a gold rated effiviency power suuply.

Originally posted by DefinitelyNotMonk:

Originally posted by Xaostic:

I would recommend a 500w PSU minimum for that GPU

Why exactly? The system with a 1060 will barely use 300w

The suggested wattage required by a video card manufacturer is usually not indicative of the total wattage already used up by other componenets in a User's PC. That 300 watt recommendation for the GTX1060 is adding to your system's total wattage under normal GPU load. So if your PC uses 150 Watts without the video card, you will need a 450 Watt power supply to run the GTX1060 under normal usage (read not boosted...Minecraft, Netflix in 1080p, Youtube in 1080p..etcetera etcetera) loads...and possible a 600Watt to 750Watt PSU to supliment for full gaming load.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

A 1060 is a 120w GPU, even overclocked to hell and back it will struggle to need 200w, you can easily run 1080ti's on a 600-750w PSU as hugely overclocked they can pull upto 300-350 at the very peak.

[Xaostic]

Originally posted by 🐱Sir Edmund's Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by DefinitelyNotMonk:

Why exactly? The system with a 1060 will barely use 300w

The suggested wattage required by a video card manufacturer is usually not indicative of the total wattage already used up by other componenets in a User's PC. That 300 watt recommendation for the GTX1060 is adding to your system's total wattage under normal GPU load. So if your PC uses 150 Watts without the video card, you will need a 450 Watt power supply to run the GTX1060 under normal usage (read not boosted...Minecraft, Netflix in 1080p, Youtube in 1080p..etcetera etcetera) loads...and possible a 600Watt to 750Watt PSU to supliment for full gaming load.

Exactly. I pretty much don't install anything under 750w with modern GPUs. The manufacture recommendations don't account for full system load. You can probably get away with 500w here as long as you don't buy a cheap inefficient PSU. This tends to be the item that a lot of folks cheap out on but keep in mind this is whats going to be supplying power to all of those expensive components inside your case.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Very few systems need more than 500w. Those that do are very high end and might need 850's, only hedt with sli and overclocked need 1000+. People HUGELY overestimate how much power they need, CPU's and GPU's have become very efficient these days, for a massive list of examples check out someone !Ike gamers Nexus who list total system power draws for all kinds of systems, your looking at under 500 for most systems, even with i7's and 1080's.

[MaddDoktor [Linux]]

It just depends whether it is a decent PSU or overrated. I am running an old 95 watt i7 870 and 120 watt GTX 1060 with Dell OEM 350 watt PSU. When I had damaged one of the legs on my CPU cooler upgrading from i5 650 to the i7 870, measured AC input was 236 watts max and after replacing the CPU cooler I never saw it go over 220 watts (input) for Unigine Heaven benchmark using Extreme settings @ 1080p.

And even an older Dell 305 watt PSU can handle that, because when I put my 116 watt GTX 550 Ti in an old Dell with single core Pentium 3.2 GHz that did not even do SpeedStep, it had no problem using 240 watts measured. That PSU did not even have a 6-pin plug, I had to use an adapter for (2) IDE power connections to 6-pin.

On the other hand an HP PC from 2004 with 250 watt PSU could not even boot 130 watts after a mild graphics card upgrade (measured after upgrading to conservative 330 watt PSU).

So your mileage may vary. There are some cheap overrated PSU's out there. A computer PSU is a switching power supply that only draws the amount of power you need, so it does not really hurt to have one oversize if planning for future upgrades. But there is no need to upgrade it now if it provides more than what you need.

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by 🐱Sir Edmund's Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by DefinitelyNotMonk:

Why exactly? The system with a 1060 will barely use 300w

The suggested wattage required by a video card manufacturer is usually not indicative of the total wattage already used up by other componenets in a User's PC. That 300 watt recommendation for the GTX1060 is adding to your system's total wattage under normal GPU load. So if your PC uses 150 Watts without the video card, you will need a 450 Watt power supply to run the GTX1060 under normal usage (read not boosted...Minecraft, Netflix in 1080p, Youtube in 1080p..etcetera etcetera) loads...and possible a 600Watt to 750Watt PSU to supliment for full gaming load.

What a load of crap.

750w is enough to OC i7 quad core and SLI OC GTX 1080.

GTX 1060 uses almost half the power of an OC GTX 1080.

GTX 1060 is 125w TDP, GTX 1080 is 150w TDP and GTX 1080 is 180w TDP. OC 1080 go from 200w to 250w. GTX 1070Ti is rated 180w TDP but in fact uses a bit less power than 1080.