Hey guys, nice to meet you all 
I've recently bought a new system but didn't upgrade my GPU because of money issues, but they are solved now. I'm looking to buy a new GPU, and have roughly £300 to spend. I want something that will last me a few years as I don't upgrade all too often. My spec is as follows:
i5 4760k
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H
TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz
Corsair RM Series RM 550 '80+ Gold' 550W
Gaming resolution is 1920x1080 and the games I mostly play are BF4, Metro series, Diablo 3, some MMO games like Wildstar when that comes out.
The site I mostly use for my products is overclockers.co.uk
I've been looking at a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB (I have no AMD or NVIDIA preference), which is slightly above my budget (but I can justify paying the extra) and my main concern is the power it will draw. Will my PSU be enough for it? I'm running stock settings on my CPU and my PC isn't powering any form of CD drive.
I guess my main question is, would my PSU have any problem providing power to this card or cards of similar power? Like I said I only recently bought this system (within 2 weeks) so replacing the PSU is not something I want to be doing!
Any suggestions for alternative cards are greatly appreciated, thanks for reading and taking time out of your day to help me out!
I've recently bought a new system but didn't upgrade my GPU because of money issues, but they are solved now. I'm looking to buy a new GPU, and have roughly £300 to spend. I want something that will last me a few years as I don't upgrade all too often. My spec is as follows:
i5 4760k
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H
TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz
Corsair RM Series RM 550 '80+ Gold' 550W
Gaming resolution is 1920x1080 and the games I mostly play are BF4, Metro series, Diablo 3, some MMO games like Wildstar when that comes out.
The site I mostly use for my products is overclockers.co.uk
I've been looking at a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB (I have no AMD or NVIDIA preference), which is slightly above my budget (but I can justify paying the extra) and my main concern is the power it will draw. Will my PSU be enough for it? I'm running stock settings on my CPU and my PC isn't powering any form of CD drive.
I guess my main question is, would my PSU have any problem providing power to this card or cards of similar power? Like I said I only recently bought this system (within 2 weeks) so replacing the PSU is not something I want to be doing!
Any suggestions for alternative cards are greatly appreciated, thanks for reading and taking time out of your day to help me out!
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