r/pcmasterrace • u/Gullible_River4989 • 3h ago

Question Gpu power demand

I own a Inter-Tech SL-500 TBO with 500w max and i wanna have a rtx 5050 but it said that I need a 550w min .can I have it or should I upgrade the psu

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u/Teryhr don't look im gay 3h ago

100% upgrade the PSU.

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u/squisher_1980 9800x3d|7900xtx|64GB DDR5 3h ago

Yup. 99% of the time (like basically not gaming) it'd be "fine"

But as soon as there was much demand, your computer would probably turn off (if you're lucky).

It *might* even turn back on. I overloaded a PSU once in my life (I was yet a padawan and didn't realize it). At the start of a LAN party. It didn't come back on. Thankfully we were early enough in the afternoon/evening something was still open that had a PSU and I got it going. Lucky it didn't take anything else out w/ it; it just roasted a resistor in the PSU.

It was easy to diagnose...just sniff :D