What wattage of psu do i need?

ethriuz69

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my system is

Asus M4A88T-M LE
AMD Phenom II X4 B55 3.30 GHz
Kingston 2X DDR3 4GB (total 8GB)
inno3d NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5. Green Edition (No additional 6-pin PCI-E)
HDD 465GB

im wondering what wattage of power supply I need.
in that system is what I am thinking of upgrading to and I need to know if I need to up the power of my psu,
I currently have corsair CX 500w but do I need more? im planning to upgrade my processor to AMD Phenom II x6 1090T and my Graphics card to better one.. thanks
 
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The CX500 will power all that easily.
The CX500 will also handle the Phenom II x6 1090T.

The GTX 770 or R9 280X should be okay on that PSU with the Phenom II x6 1090T. I wouldn't risk anything more than that. A 760 or R9 270X would be safer.
The CX500 will power all that easily.
The CX500 will also handle the Phenom II x6 1090T.

The GTX 770 or R9 280X should be okay on that PSU with the Phenom II x6 1090T. I wouldn't risk anything more than that. A 760 or R9 270X would be safer.
 
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I wouldn't even risk a GTX 770 or a R9 280X on a 500W PSU, that is too close, it would need to be a really good quality PSU. If your playing a game like BF4 with the R9 280X on a 500w PSU, you'll be almost sure you'll get a BSOD.

Back to your question, that'll easily work.