Corsair CX 450 enough for RTX 3050?

[wandplus]

The Newegg calculator says total 390 watts with motherboard, 1TB M.2 SSD, 2TB HD, one DVD-RW (probably irrelevant), 3 case fans + on the heatsink, 2 sticks of RAM and i5-11500. I haven't looked at the power limits for the CPU in the BIOS but I want to run stock speeds on both the CPU and GPU (RAM will be native speed of 2666 MHz even though the Crucial Ballistix RAM is 3200MHz lol).

 

[Ducrider748]

It should work just fine. Do you have the CX450 already? If not I would look into a 550 or 650. To give you some head room.

 

[wandplus]

I have the CX 450 and did not anticipate the 130 watts of the RTX 3050. I had assumed falsely that when the go down to smaller chips the consumption would go down.

 

[atp1916]

Should be fine seeing how the CX450 can max 37.4a on the main 12v line.