So, a friend of mine ended up giving a bare minimum Alienware X51 R2 to me. It has an i5 4150, 6GB of RAM and GTX 645, ..., lol.
Well, my vision of this tiny PC is that I could upgrade it, fast forward to today, I fit a GTX 1070 in that thing, bought a 2*4GB RAM kit and an i5 4690S (both of which I'm still waiting to get).
Now, I remember my 8600K rig with a 1070 would draw 320W from the wall, in a Node 202, but can I realistically power this rig with the 240W power brick it has? I got the "S" CPU on purpose for lower TDP and I'm thinking I can underclock that 1070 to get under 240W. What do you guys think?
Well, my vision of this tiny PC is that I could upgrade it, fast forward to today, I fit a GTX 1070 in that thing, bought a 2*4GB RAM kit and an i5 4690S (both of which I'm still waiting to get).
Now, I remember my 8600K rig with a 1070 would draw 320W from the wall, in a Node 202, but can I realistically power this rig with the 240W power brick it has? I got the "S" CPU on purpose for lower TDP and I'm thinking I can underclock that 1070 to get under 240W. What do you guys think?