Looks like my PSU is dead, could be the motherboard but the PSU had been a bit dicey for a while (loud noises sometimes), so it's most likely that. Will not power on at all.
I have an older CPU i5 7th gen and a 1050ti GPU, 16 gig ram and an SSD and hdd. I will probably upgrade to a 3060 or equivalent within the next year.
What is a minimum safe wattage power supply that will cover this with a bit of headroom? Is 550w enough? I'll get a brand name PSU…
Well because after one more GPU upgrade that will be all I'll do with this due to the age of the motherboard and CPU… Obviously want to spend the least $… No point getting a 750w if I don't need it, and I'm a bit out of touch with these things.
Power supplies are not something you should skimp on, and a good PSU can last you for many years (and across many system builds). Consult the PSU Tier list on what to buy, and what to avoid.
The poor man pays twice.
I've got a Enermax PSU that I bought 8 years ago that still works powering a R5 + RTX 3070 system.
Every PSU I've ever bought - and they've all been cheap ones - still works with the single exception of one I blew up by short circuiting it, and all it required to fix it was new fuse. I don't get this thing people have about PSUs being unreliable. If you buy ones that aren't the absolute minimum wattage output required - so they aren't running right on their limit, they last until the connector standards change and you have to buy one thats got whatever new one is required.
u might need to check if ur hard drive is alright, because if the voltage is not stable there might damage ur hard drive and never cheap out on PSU
Just buy an 850W or 1000W PSU so you can carry it forward with you if you do a complete hardware refresh
your old i5 probably uses less than 100w under stress (based on my memory about my Skylake i7), and probably only use 50w gaming. 1050ti is around 75w-100w depends on model, new 3060 is about 180w.
If your next CPU upgrade goes with AMD, it'll still be around 100w range full stress(much more efficient than intel). So really any (single rail 12v) 450w 550w will be fine.
My overclocked i7 13700k (full stress ~300w itself) (5.5G P Core, 4.9G Ring, E Core disabled) + 4000C14 dual rank B-Die all sub tweaked (tweaked timing increase CPU power draw quite a bit) + RTX4070, altogether uses 330w on average playing APEX.
just get a single-rail, 80 plus whatever certified, 550w or more, you'll be just fine with the sort of upgrade path you described.
Thanks, your reply helped a lot
Keep in mind this is all based on you won't get a much more power hungry GPU than 3060.
You'll need to consider larger PSU as your GPU power requirement goes up.
Yup, thanks. Good point. 3060 or rough equivalent will be my upgrade path for this, and most likely will be it in terms of upgrade for this desktop. Tbh I hate my smaller Scandinavian case but I didn't have a choice at the time, long story…
2000w
I assume you are joking…
https://www.whatpsu.com/psu/cpu/Intel-Core-i5-7400/gpu/NVIDI…
Why do you want the minimum ?