Buying a 500 watt power supply, will it blow out the mother board and processor?
Question by The Dragon: Buying a 500 watt power supply, will it blow out the mother board and processor?
Im planning on buying a new Graphics card and power supply to support said Card. How ever since it my first time buying power supplies I have a few questions.
1. Will buying a 500 Watt blow out my Processor and/or Motherboard?
2. Should I buy higher seeing that the graphics card needs 500 Watts?
3. Is there anything i should know before doing the switch out?
Im currently in a hardware class on PCs so you can go Techy on me. I need to make this PC ready for Skyrim :3
Forgot to add the original is a maximum of 350 watts
Best answer:
Answer by BlkHeartWolf
the 20-24 pin power connection for your system board is regulated and no need to worry this.
PSU’s are stable to 80% of the rated power so Watts \ volts = amps 500 watts = 41.7 amps.
your 500 watt requirement tells me a 52 amp PSU is needed or up to 30AMP on the card connection.
do get a 600watt to compensate for the 20% lack of stability in PSU
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