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Is 600W enough for a Titan X rig?
I actually have a Titan X pc (yay for work buying half of it lol), and I was thinking about buying one that I found on newegg for my better half for her birthday. However one thing struck me was that it only has 600 watt power supply. My computer has a 1000 watt, so I was wondering if the 600 watt was enough power to run it. Here's the listing for it. Thanks for your advice in advance! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883230023
(she's always on my computer when I'm not it seems, so it benefits me as well lol)
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More than enough. Your whole system power consumption while gaming at 2560*1600 will be 310W - 330W http://www.techspot.com/review/977-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x/page9.html
I don't see the problem at all.
Now if you don't mind, I'm off to go find me some used retreads for my Ferrari.
How is 600W budget? 1000W is super overkill, unless you're also powering your monitor, a TV, and your car on the same power supply.
Edit - @OP, I'd personally look into a system with a GTX 980 ti as well, unless you like throwing money away, in which case I can give you my paypal info. It's about $350 cheaper for nearly the same specs.
AMD also just came out with like 9 new cards at E3, might be worth looking into if you don't care about Nvidia vs AMD.
It's one thing to get a high quality 600 W power supply, though most of the good lines don't offer a 600 W model. It's quite another to get a Corsair CX. It's not "immediate danger to fry your system" bad, but it is "a corner you could cut if you need to fit a $500 budget" bad.
that it's 600W isn't that big a deal. That it's a bottom line $45-$60 Corsair with average reviews is another.
eh what
that is a lie lol
when i play games at 1080p with a 970 and i5 4590k the power i use is 300 + watt and a titan X alone requires 250
The Corsair PSU would do it, yes. A no name 600W PSU could be another matter, in that case it might or might not.
But for the pricerange we are talking I would up the PSU anyways. It is not worth saving a few bucks for something that important. I am sure you can mail the manufacturer of the rig or the store and ask if they can't upgrade the PSU to a somewhat larger if you really like this one.
HMMMM, guess people forget that you have to have power for the fans, or, liquid cooling, along with hard drives, and, the DVD drive, sound card, and, maybe other power hungry operations, 600 W's sounds bare minimum with the Titan X, but, it depends on what else is going into that computer, maybe a 750 W would put you at ease.
Its not a question really of the amount of power the PSU puts out, but how reliable it is, and a low end 'el cheapo' PSU is not something you would normally consider except on an ultra low budget PC, what most are pointing out, is that he would be better off getting a better PSU, not a bigger one.
Nah it doesn't require 250W, that's just TDP.
dont listen to these fools..
600 watt is not enough and also DO not get a Corsair RM or CM or Antec all 3 are litterly crap.
get a Evga 700+ watt PSU or something that shrines quailty.
and also i would highly suggest selling that Titan X and get gtx 980 ti instead. u save money and also u get better temps and so on. since the difference on Titan x and 980ti is like 0,2% fps diff
You stay sassy!
I tend to use PC specialist table as a guide, can't got wrong tbh.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/matrix/232/11/1/0/
a TDP is a reading on how much equel amount of watt to heating is required to cool. which obviously means the card draws 250 watt at the top.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_titan_x_review,8.html
TDP Is normally how u calculate how much power a card requires to run on full power. and as u can see in that Review its 256 watt at full use.
and yes TDP is how u can see what the card requires
Looking around on newegg for Lunch, I found this 980 computer for the same price, but it seems to have a better PSU and Ripjaws RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227620
If you could buy either of them which would you pick? Her birthday isn't for another month, so I got time
(plus it comes with Arkham Knight free, she loves Batman lol)
I'd price the parts up individually. You can build quite a rig with that kind of coin
I'm in Canada. I build my own systems but the place I buy my parts from, NCIX.com you can pick your components and let them build the system for you for $75
They can't be the only ones
edit: some of the things in that system are just unnecessary like the 32gigs of ram you also want to check out the timings on that ram.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
I'm well aware of what TDP is.
You said the card alone requires 250W for gaming despite testing showing otherwise. Here's another power consumption link http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-gm200-maxwell,review-33151-5.html
And another one, this time torture testing results in 334W draw for the total system http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review,8.html
If you can't or won't build your own computer, then don't buy some random prebuilt. Get one built-to-order off of a site that lets you pick parts.
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TDP is a company's promise that a part won't use more than some particular amount of power for meaningful periods of time. Even if a 250 W TDP part typically only uses 200 W, that 200 W number will vary from game to game and by your settings, so do you really want to build a rig that will spontaneously combust if it ever pulls 250 W? When choosing power and cooling, you build around the TDP and still leave some headroom, or else you're living dangerously.
Good advice but the OP is looking at a 600W PSU which is more than enough for what the system is drawing. There was never any implication that he should get a 350W PSU.
I am using 850 watt GPU with a GTX 970/4gb, 8core, 16gb ram, Win8.1....
I used to go slightly above needed but since my above upgrade my pc has never been cooler, faster and more silent. Read that topic about pc's heating up the room and I was like yeah that was me and my older system.
To be honost if I would go for a titan X card regardless some feel it's overkill I most definitly go beyond the watt's I current use because I don't see it's as overkill.