Thinking about HD 6950, PSU good enough?

Wyverex · Apr 11, 2011

So, I'm thinking about getting XFX HD 6950 1 GB.
Now, by W1zzard's review, HD6950 would actually use less power than my current HD 4870 and I don't have the money to upgrade both the GPU and PSU, but XFX site says that a 650 W PSU would be the minimum to use it...

So any opinions on the matter? Would my Corsair VX550 be good enough? Would it be good enough if I modded the HD 6950 to HD 6970?

Thanks for all the help :toast:

Fourstaff · Apr 11, 2011

W1zzard says 195w for 6950, but 287w for 6970. I would say your PSU will hold.

DarkOCean · Apr 11, 2011

You are good to go.

slyfox2151 · Apr 11, 2011

Wyverex said:
So, I'm thinking about getting XFX HD 6950 1 GB.
Now, by W1zzard's review, HD6950 would actually use less power than my current HD 4870 and I don't have the money to upgrade both the GPU and PSU, but XFX site says that a 650 W PSU would be the minimum to use it...

So any opinions on the matter? Would my Corsair VX550 be good enough? Would it be good enough if I modded the HD 6950 to HD 6970?

Thanks for all the help

yes it will be 100% fine...

im currently running a 6 core 1090T @ nearly 4ghz and an overclocked gtx560 on a 5 year old antec 500watt psu... + the 5 HDDs... and a SSD soon... many fans.

xenocide · Apr 11, 2011

slyfox2151 said:
yes it will be 100% fine...

im currently running a 6 core 1090T @ nearly 4ghz and an overclocked gtx560 on a 5 year old antec 500watt psu... + the 5 HDDs... and a SSD soon... many fans.

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