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AMDGAmER9

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Hi all, so just today I bought a new PSU, the Corsair CX500 V2 (I have got rid of the Huntkey Green Power 500W), I have read it is a good psu for the price and the voltages looked great.Will the PSU handle it if I upgrade my gpu to the GTX 770 or R9 280X?
Rig:
CPU:AMD FX-6300
MB:MSI 970A-G46
6 Gb DDR3 1333mhz
GPU:Sapphire R7 260X OC
HDD:1 TB Seagate

Thanks!
 
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HiTechObsessed
500w is plenty for a GTX 770, and a 280x: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7392/the-geforce-gtx-770-roundup-evga-gigabyte-and-msi-compared/6 That's with an overclocked i7 extreme, so your results would be about 25w lower at peak load.

That said, the CX series is built with smaller, poor quality capacitors, and isn't built to handle stress, and has pretty low power available on the +12v rail. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend that.

Also, don't use online power supply calculators. They rarely are accurate, and are usually built around tolerances for poor quality power supplies as well.
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500w is plenty for a GTX 770, and a 280x: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7392/the-geforce-gtx-770-roundup-evga-gigabyte-and-msi-compared/6 That's with an overclocked i7 extreme, so your results would be about 25w lower at peak load.

That said, the CX series is built with smaller, poor quality capacitors, and isn't built to handle stress, and has pretty low power available on the +12v rail. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend that.

Also, don't use online power supply calculators. They rarely are accurate, and are usually built around tolerances for poor quality power supplies as well.
 
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