430W PSU good enough for GTX 670?

torlen11cc

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Hello everyone,
Recently I found a GTX670 graphics card for sale at a very reasonable price, and I am interested in switching it with the current HD 7950 that I have at the moment.
My power supply is the S12II-430 Seasonic, and up to now it has been able to run the Sapphire 7950 Boost with no problems under full load.
My question is whether or not there will be a problem regarding the power requirements with the new MSI GTX 670 card together with the power supply that I mentioned. The build is below

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500
Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3
Memory: 8.00GB (2X4GB) Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Storage: 111GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G (SSD) & 465GB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 (HDD)
Case: Gigabyte GZ-G1 Plus
Power Supply: S12II-430 Seasonic
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster (1680x1050@60Hz)

Thanks.
 

Yuriman

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You should have no problems, but I'd like to ask, why the switch? A GTX 670 is not really much (any?) faster than a 7950 Boost.
 

john5220

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Why would you switch out a 7950 for a GTX 670? in newer benchmarks the 7950 is actually faster than the GTX 670 for newer games.

I have a 7850 and decided to go GTX 960 SSC because I have a phobia of red. Only reason I pick Nvidia is because its green and green to me is a symbol of efficiency, coolness etc

With red AMD it makes me feel dirty, heated, sweaty. Maybe its because I live in the tropics who knows
 

fleshconsumed

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To answer your question, yes, it's good enough, but to second the others, why would you make a switch to inferior card? It's slower and has less ram. Why?