Graphics Card upgrade help!!

[RySpeirs]

Hi all.
My son has a gaming pc that he uses for mostly minecraft and a few editing programs that arent really heavy usage.
He has asked for a specific graphics card for xmas, however im not totally clued up on it all and i want to make sure the motherboard and CPU etc will hold up...
Wants to upgrade to a msi GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB VENTUS 2X OC Graphics Card
Currently he has:
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.2GHz/19MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
GIGABYTE B550 GAMING X V2 (AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0)
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 - HDMI
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (3300 MB/R, 2900 MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W CV SERIES™ CV-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 100 V3 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORT

ANY HELP would be appreciated. Thanks
PS...I am old!
Ryan

 

[TonyCarter]

You'll probably find your current PSU is underpowered for that level of GPU...but swapping it will require a complete rebuild as all the power cables will have to come off to do so.

 

[stegor]

It needs an 8-pin PCIe cable from the power supply. If you can get at one and route it through to the new card then it will work. Note though, as Tony says, 450W may be cutting it fine and you could get system instability when playing demanding games.

 

[SpyderTracks]

The minimum PSU for a 4060 is 550W, so no it wouldn't work without a PSU upgrade. It's never worth getting the minimum spec PSU, always worth overprovisioning to allow for upgrades. Just because you have a higher rated PSU doesn't affect how much power the PC uses, only how much available it has to draw on.

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Just additionally, be aware that 8Gb VRAM isn't enough for most modern games, this is why NVidia released the 16Gb 4060ti shortly after, that's really the lowest NVidia GPU worth getting for 1080p. AMD cards are better provisioned for VRAM, the RX 7600XT outperforms the 4060 anyway.

12Gb is the minimum VRAM to be able to play modern games at 1080p.