Outervision psu calculator questions

DanielSan

Member
I'm about to purchase a new psu and it's to maintain the rig in my sig.. so I might get away with the corsair cx430m which is the unit I really want. As my sigs recommended wattage is about 438w under load.

Then I threw in all my future upgrades into the calculator such as a new Mobo, i5 6600k, SSD, DDR4, and a gtx 960 and the recommended wattage went down by a crazy amount to something like 377 watts and just 27 amps on the 12v rail?!

Question is is this right? Are the skylake cpus and the newer nvidia cards really that much less power hungry? It seems if I get the cx430 my system will have more headroom AFTER my upgrades. .. or do I go for the slightly higher cx500m?
 

johnb35

Administrator
Staff member
Yeah the 960 will work on the 430 watt unit. The 970 will work on the cx 500 so it you plan on upgrading video card later I would just get the 500.
 
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