I am planning to buy an Alienware Aurora in i5-9400 configuration with Nvidia 2060 and 16Gb ram. But I have a doubt about the power supply: is the 460W enough to support everything? The configurator allows it, but I'm not entirely sure about that. Can you tell me something about it? Thank you
The 460W does not support Retail upgrade cards only the low power down clocked OEM Dell cards. If you want to upgrade later make sure you have AT LEAST the 850W power supply.
I'd get the 850 and be done with it, the 2060 requires 500w minimum according to Newegg. Just checked your build and think you can add 850w and liquid cooling for $150, that's what I'd select, you'd be quite happy with that setup.
I can't comment specifically on the 2060, but most of the video cards used are OEM versions and tend to not require the amount of power the full retail version uses. Thus what configures is usually correct.
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Even if the 460W PSU suffices for your current configuration, choosing that would essentially lock you out of potential upgrades down the road. You'd end up spending more money replacing the power supply with something more capable in future.
When it comes to power supplies, I've always advocated buying as much as you can afford now that would give sufficient headroom for expansion when needed.
It's a simple blower style card. Gets the job done but don't expect Strix/ Aorus/ FTW3 levels of performance here. You'd probably want to shelf the idea of overclocking it too much. Not sure how much the power limit is set in the vBIOS.
Even retail cards have at least 3-5 tiers of performance for each brand and RTX chip. Are you looking to be ranked top N in 3Dmark/ Heaven benchmark or just don't want a lemon flagged in Userbenchmark?
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The 460W does not support Retail upgrade cards only the low power down clocked OEM Dell cards. If you want to upgrade later make sure you have AT LEAST the 850W power supply.