Can my PSU power a SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC Radeon R9 290 4GB?

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Carl Blance

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I have mixed feedback so maybe here would shred a bit more light to one side

The PSU I have is a Seasonic x-series 650w gold 80, and I know I can run the SAPPHIRE AMD RADEON R9 280X DUAL-X 3GB , but I'd rather the R9 290 TRI-X OC

Currently running

FX4300 (OC atm but will drop down for the card)
Corsair Vengence 2x4GB
Gigabyte 970A-UD3
6x NZXT Fans (No leds)
NZXT Fan controller (may remove as they dont last long)
Asus cd drive (common one forgot model no.)
5400rpm HDD (Seagate)
7200rpm HDD (WD Black)
EVO 212
Sapphire 7870XT 2gb
 
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I would think a 650w would do just fine, but a 750w would be playing a bit safer. Also your CPU would bottleneck the 290 quite bad, so I would look at getting that upgraded too.
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Thats a really good quality PSU, I had a 650W corsair before with R9 290 tri-x and i7 and that PSU died after 2 weeks. Be careful because sometimes, just for a couple miliseconds the R9 290 draws more than 300W just for a brief moment (under full load of course) and not all PSUs can handle that, I had to RMA my corsair PSU and bought a same as you just the 750W version just to be on the safe side.
 
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According to the Sapphire website, it is listed that 750w PSU is required, to be on the safe side if you could upgrade your PSU then probably great, however i am guessing 650w should be good enough (given you are not overclocking it) to run that card.
 
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Carl Blance

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Sapphire says 750w as they are referring to average PSU's not high quality PSU's.
 
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Carl Blance

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Can I have your exact specs such as models/numbers etc, anything OC?
 
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well i was inferring that if you would be OC'ing the card, then getting a 750w PSU would be great and probably safer then running it off 650w on OC. and either way in general you should be getting a good quality PSU anyway.
 
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Never heard what the term bottle-necking was till now, but it does explain my current situation with BF4 as I cant find any other issue. So thanks :) I'll just make a new system my motherboard and CPU are pretty old...
 
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I wouldn't bother making an entire new system, your motherboard is fine, just look at getting maybe an FX-6300 or FX-8320 :) If anything your system is quite new.
 
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Sure thing mate:

MoBo: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 Intel Z87
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K (running at stock speed)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S
GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-x
RAM: 8GB G.Skill Ares DDR3
SSD: 250GB Samsung 840 Evo Series 2.5"
HDD1: 1TB WD Blue
HDD2: 2TB WD Green
ODD: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD-RW
Case: Thermaltake Chaser A71
PSU now: Seasonic X-series 750W 80+ Gold Modular
PSU was: 650 Watt Corsair CS Series Modular 80+ Gold
 
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Carl Blance

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Yeah I was just ordering a 8320 lol, apparently the 6300 would bottleneck as well unless I overclocked it. Yeah its only 7 months roughly. But I enjoy building them :)

 
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Carl Blance

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Damn and your running intel, unlike my cpu wattage whore haha. Alright I will upgrade to a 750w just to be safe
 
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Good choice and good luck with your build. ;)

 
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ZeroRequiem

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Good idea, never ever try to save money on the PSU.
 
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Carl Blance

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Ended up going overboard but what the hell....

1 x AMD FX8320 Vishera 3.5/4.0Ghz Black Edition 16MB Cache Socket AM3+
1 x Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB GDDR5 OC PCI-E3.0
1 x Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler w/NF-P14 + NF-P12
1 x Seasonic X-Series V3 850W 80Plus Gold Power Supply
 
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My PSU got delayed and I ended up changing the 8320 to a 8350, and got a SSD 120gb Samsung for lols as their was an 8% special on my $1500 order lol. Hopefully I dont have to long on this backbordered PSU
 
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