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Question

GTX560 Ti in HP 500-164?

Mar 14, 2015 3:48PM PDT

I was given a HP 500-164 prebuilt desktop as a gift a year or so ago, and it is currently good enough for me to run TF2 native resolution at highest settings (minus AA) very well. I know that is no real accomplishment, but has been good enough for me being mostly a console gamer. I recently bought a Wii U, and am going to use my PC as my other main gaming device, since I don't want to buy one of each new console, and I want to put a bit of money into upgrading it.
It comes with an integrated graphical processing reading of around 768MB taken from the CPU, I believe, so almost anything would be an upgrade- but I want something I don't need to upgrade for a few years, but not something I will have to spend more than around $100 on. I recently found a very good deal on a GeForce GTX560 Ti, and I am very ready to jump on it, but I want to know it will work first. I already upgraded my PSU because the original got destroyed (unrelated), and went with a Corsair CX600, so I hope that will be good enough.

I have read that the 560 Ti takes 550 watts, so will that leave me enough power to add a second 8GB stick of RAM? I know electrical theory and mechanics well, but I'm not 100% savvy on computers, so will that work; will I have to buy a slightly less intensive GPU to leave room for the RAM?

Thanks in advance. Any info you people can give me would be so appreciated. I really don't want to spend this money on something, just to have to spend more to make it work.

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Gpu
Mar 15, 2015 12:36AM PDT

The 560 is a 170w card.
You should be fine power wise.

Ram.
Do some reading about dual channel.
It's best to buy ram in kits....matched sticks.

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While it is a 300W PSU
Mar 15, 2015 1:04AM PDT

The exact specs are not shown. Before we tackle that, RAM takes so little power and actually can result is lower power versus HDD access that it's a wash. Let's not worry about the RAM except to repeat that these are installed in matched pairs (same make/model)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-560-ti-gf114,2845-15.html shows above 400 Watts draw so the 300 might be enough for power up but little more than that. As to size I like to stay at the 50% mark of total draw to get 5 years or more of no troubles. Let's look at 800 Watt PSUs.
Bob