460W PSU support decent Graphics Card in 3 years time?

What with improvements in power efficiency, do you think I'll ever really need a PSU better than a quality 460W, if you catch my drift?

What with improvements in power efficiency, do you think I'll ever really need a PSU better than a quality 460W, if you catch my drift?

polarwrath11

personally, i doubt it. depends on what your planning on doing with your system. high end sli and quad core proc? your gonna need 750+ watts. but single mid end gpu and mid end proc you will be fine for a long time.

i'm guessing that will do fine as you see more and more concern for power draw for pretty much all pc components, but i went with 550w myself to be on the safe side.

460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

Great :) I should be pretty much set getting this CoolMaster 460W eXtreme Power PSU then!polarwrath11

I ordered one of those recently, seems like a good PSU but it is a bit weak. Mine came with coolermaster elite 330. (not that impressive.)

460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

WDT-BlackKat

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460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

bcroger2

460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

WDT-BlackKat

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460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

death1505921

460W is already way behind the current minimum for a good card. Get it and you'll regret it. I wouldn't touch anything less than this Corsair 750 watt PSU with a 10 foot pole.

Cards aren't going to need less power over time, they will need more and more and more. Especially Amperage which is the real reason for getting such a PSU. It's not that it has 750 watts, it's that it has 60 amps. Which is somewhat more than you need today for say a GTX 260-295 (36-48 ). But likely even that is going to be barely enough for the next generation of cards.

Unless you plan on perenially buying the bottom barrel GPUs you need something substantial to power GTXs and the like.

WDT-BlackKat

460w if it hase decent v12 rails is fine for a single card (with single 6pin) and overclocked cpu. I'm struggling with a 520w psu though with the configuration below. When the hd5800 series cards come out i will have to get a corsair tx650w because i don't trust running crossfire with mine

you are good unless of course you are planning to go sli or crossfire

3 years down the line, if you bought a new PSU capable of 460W, then it will be fine. But PSUs age with time, and they become less reliable. So YOUR 460W psu that has been running for 3+ years might not be sufficient.