Acer Nitro N50-640 Desktop - Can my PSU handle 5 120mm Be Quiet! Light Wing aRGB fans?

WrathofGoth
WrathofGoth Member Posts: 7

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I'm basically ready to case swap my Acer Nitro N50-640 desktop gaming PC. I pulled a lot of information for the swap on these forums and throughout the bits I could find on the internet (reddit, youtube.)

I want to add (5) 120mm Be Quiet! Light Wing fans which I know will be powered by SATA and will need a controller to work, my question is will my PSU be able to handle it? Currently everything is pretty much stock except upgrades I did, RAM (32gb) and GPU (RTX 4060), plus added two 92mm fans inside my current case which I used a 4pin splitter running from my CPU fan (these I plan to remove). I also plan to add a Noctua NHU95 CPU cooler as well.

Right now the stock PSU is a proprietary 500W.

Motherboard model is DB.E2V11.001

Light Wing info:

Power Connector Type

4-Pin

Voltage

12 Volts (DC)

Wattage

2.52 watts

Cooling Method

Fan

Thank you in advance for any help!

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  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,755 Pathfinder
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    What is the max power pull of your system, esp CPU and GPU. Generally PSU are designed with some capacity in buffer, and considering these 5 fans add up to only 15W you should be good. But this also doesn't mean that you can do on adding more items. If you intend to add a cooler and what not, upgrade the PSU to a stronger version.

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