is a 400w PSU able to power my new gfx card

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linkj93

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Hi, i have a:

Asus HD 7870 AMD Radeon DirectCU II Graphics Card

coming and want to know if my PSU, 400W Xigmatek can take it

if you need anymore info on my other components then ill post em, i would rather know now and order a more powerful psu than have it come and burn out my rig
 
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linkj93

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ok heres my full build at the moment:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Frio

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Motherboard: Gigabyte M68MT-S2P

Memory: 8GB DDR3 1333mhz (2x4GB)

Hard Drives: 1TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s

Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA

Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB

Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio

PSU: 400W Xigmatek



 
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what budget do you have?

because it just might surprise people but there are actually better PSUs than corsairs out there and esp the CX series.

 
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linkj93

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thanks for all the help people, one more thing, my psu is at the bottom of my tower and theres venting at the bottom so do i just flip one of these so the fan on the psu is facing down? is that fine for the psu to be flipped?
 
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yes.
 
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