Power Supply Upgrade Help For My First Gaming PC

[Finny]

Hello everyone I just got my first PC its an Inspiron 5675 (AMD) here is the link: http://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/desktops/inspiron-gaming-desktop-amd/spd/inspiron-5675-gaming-desktop/di5675_btsb_h931e

This is my first gaming PC and let me tell you its working great and running everything I want and I want it to stay that way, the stock power supply is only 460 watts and I will be upgrading the RAM to 16gb from 8gb and also putting an SSD into it and maybe a new after market CPU cooler. 460 watts seems a little low to do all of this without upgrading the PSU as well. So what size do you think I should go for? I was thinking at least 600 w - 750 w range? would that be the correct? and What Brands do you guys prefer?

Also is there any compatibility issues I should worry about when buying a PSU? or will any PSU basically work with any system?

Also I am new to the PC world so any other suggestions you guys can give me for upgrades would be appreciated ? Also I guess ill add this in aswell, After gaming all day the first day on my new rig I noticed the exhaust was quite hot, how worried should I be with high temps coming form my PC? will more fans help?

Thanks Steamy Community!

[tacoshy]

Dell doesnt use normal standard size PSU's. Mostly not that easy to swap the PSU and ebsides not needed. Waste of money. Heat control has nothing to do with the PSU at all. More or betetr fans not going to make the heat production better. The hardware wills till produce the same ammount of heat. the air is just faster pushed out having it feel not so hot on the exhaust but has nothing to do with performance either unless you thermal throttle (which you dont).

[Finny]

引用自 tacoshy：

Dell doesnt use normal standard size PSU's. Mostly not that easy to swap the PSU and ebsides not needed. Waste of money. Heat control has nothing to do with the PSU at all. More or betetr fans not going to make the heat production better. The hardware wills till produce the same ammount of heat. the air is just faster pushed out having it feel not so hot on the exhaust but has nothing to do with performance either unless you thermal throttle (which you dont).

Do you know that that paragraph you just wrote was almost not even helpful in the least, how about some suggestions not a rant

and how would more fans not help heat control, you are removing hot stagnate air more quickly and thus less heat exchange is taking place on the components that are below the hot airs temperatures.

[tacoshy]

引用自 Finny：

Do you know that that paragraph you just wrote was almost not even helpful in the least, how about some suggestions not a rant

and how would more fans not help heat control, you are removing hot stagnate air more quickly and thus less heat exchange is taking place on the components that are below the hot airs temperatures.

Well Dell PSU's dont have the standard size. Besides Dell nobody uses that form factor so you need to swap with another DELL PSU or get a case that can sue normal size PSU's. And its not needed because a SSD nor the RAM will draw more power then your PSU can provide. That upgrade is marginal on the power draw.

More fans help to lower the ambient tempreture so the temps inside the case are colder. Therefor the hot air axausted getting colder too. But that hot air doesnt hurt nor will the heat production of the hardware go down. Waste of money to upgrade it unless you need colder temps because you are close to thermal throttelingbut Dell doesnt build that bad that you get close to thermal throtteling.
Of course you can do this if you think you have to get lower temps inside the case but this will have 0 influence on your performance and is just money spend.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

extra RAM does not needs much of an extra power, May be 5 watt more.
1 SSD / HDD is just 10 Watt.
You are still fiine with 460 Watt PSU.

My PSU is only 450 Watt, Running GTX 1060 + i5 + 16 GB RAM + SSD + HDD, CPU and GPU is fully overclocked, Running for years, 24/7, Just fine.

[tacoshy]

well a 7700K @5.2GHz + GTX 1080 Ti for me + 3 SSD's + 1 HDD + 32GB RAM, LED added... not crossing 450W power draw.

Thats what I ment with a PSU upgrade is not needed beside the fact that it is hard to just swap a DELL PSU. You could save the money.

[rotNdude]

I wouldn't worry about your power supply if you're only adding a RAM module, an SSD and a fan. Those are very low wattage devices.

I wouldn't worry about hot air coming out of the PC. That's what an exhaust fan is for. It exhausts the hot air out of the case. Monitor your component temperatures and see how they look. If you want opinions regarding temperatures, post them here.

[upcoast]

I really "hate" the psu debate, it's not always about the the watts but the quality and amps and % used, any way tacoshy and the usual crowd will hop in with the same old poop, so do what you want but the best advice I can offer is try to educate yourself.

I pick up my psus on sale ie seasonic 850w $109, seasonic 620w $36, antec green 750w $50 Canadian funds and the list goes on.

Would I trust a dell psu for quality hell no unless I can be proved wrong with supporting documented proof that seasonic is making dell psus and not thermatake.

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引用自 tacoshy：

well a 7700K @5.2GHz + GTX 1080 Ti for me + 3 SSD's + 1 HDD + 32GB RAM, LED added... not crossing 450W power draw.

Thats what I ment with a PSU upgrade is not needed beside the fact that it is hard to just swap a DELL PSU. You could save the money.

5.2 ghtz on i7 7700k? WTF??
I can't go beyond 2.4 ghtz on my Pentium lol.

Anyway, I suggest you (the OP) to upgrade the ram if you can. Make sure that there are free ram slots on the motherboard. Also, you can wait for the ram prices to go down (which I highly doubt will ever happen).

引用自 upcoast：

Would I trust a dell psu for quality hell no unless I can be proved wrong with supporting documented proof that seasonic is making dell psus and not thermatake.

I use Thermaltake's PSU. They have been great so far. (hey, don't take it seriously, I have little experience with PSUs).

I don't know about compatibility of the PSU. So assuming that it is compatible with ATX standard PSUs, you should go for 550-650W PSUs. 750W seems a bit overkill unless you plan to buy a new graphics over time.

[upcoast]

To take some of the guessing out is this the model # of the psu D460AM-03?

If it is do a quick google on it.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

引用自 RagnaBloodedge：

dont forget about the new ryzen combined graphics and cpu chips,that are really cheap, wont need a graphics card at all

yes that new Ryzen is extremely good, but that Ryzen's integrated graphics chip is not powerfull enough to run ''Deus Ex Mankind Divided'' at 30 FPS.
So it has NO use for me. Thank you....