Corsair 520 enough?

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Foz2001

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I have a corsair 520hx power supply and wanna upgrade my system. Looking at an intel i5, with most likely a gtx570. I will be running 2 harddrives and some case fans.

Think I'll be ok? I hate the fact of upgrading almost everything in the case everytime I upgrade....
 
Any overclocking? The 520 will probably work, but you might be running it a bit close. ~220 watts for the 570, 100 watts for a stock i5. Overclocked can be as high as 200, depends on how far you overclock. 50 watts for motherboard/RAM, and about another 50 watts for peripherals.
 
thanks for the response.

No I wont be overclocking, everything is gonna stay stock for this build.
 
Foz2001 said:
thanks for the response.

No I wont be overclocking, everything is gonna stay stock for this build.
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How old is your Corsair 520HX PSU? If you been using it for several years the power/performance will decline over time. To be safe, I would just get a new PSU if you had your 520HX for 4+ years.
 
Way more than enough. And also yes you can plan for future upgrades. It should handle any single video card + cpu easily. Also do not be concerned about degradation of the psu, I would expect this could easily run 7+ years.
 
No problems with a 3+ year old 520 with my OC'd 2500k, 5850 + couple wd black drives & SSD. I am looking at the new corsair 650d, if I do upgrade the case, I'll probably get a corsair 750w to go along with it ;)
 
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