Upgrading My PC, What Possible Complications Could Occur

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I am planning on upgrading my Nvidia gefore gt610 to a AMD Radeon R9 270x, but I am wondering what complication could occur, I have a fairly cheap 750w PSU, it is unbranded and it is worrying me it may not be powerful enough for the graphics card, also maybe the motherboard may not be big enough for the card, I am not sure of my motherboard make and model of the top of my head (on a work computer now.) My motherboard is a gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P its micro ATX and I found out my PSU is made by pulse (any good)

Do you know of any serious issues that may occur and any ways to prevent it from happening.

Thanks, James
 
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750w psu will be enough, even if it's cheap, I believe. R9 270x requires minimum 500w psu usually. The main thing is, will your cpu bottleneck new gpu or not. Also, 610 is shorter than R9 270x, so you need to make sure it will fit in your case.
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750w psu will be enough, even if it's cheap, I believe. R9 270x requires minimum 500w psu usually. The main thing is, will your cpu bottleneck new gpu or not. Also, 610 is shorter than R9 270x, so you need to make sure it will fit in your case.
 
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My case is big enough for the r9 270x, I am mainly concerned about the PSU and motherboard
 
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My case is big enough for the r9 270x, I am mainly concerned about the PSU and motherboard
 
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I'm 99% sure that PSU would handle with it. Just my opinion. A reliable bronze certified PSU would be a better choice, of course, but nothing bad will happen to your gpu anyway. PC may shut down due to lack of amps during high load in worst scenario.
 
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custom but the motherboard is a gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P its micro ATX and I found out my PSU is made by pulse (any good)

 
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if it helps, voltage regulator may fail causing detrimental damage to compononents like your graphics card, motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.... I've had experience with this where my GTX 660 failed with a 700 watt no brand, and now works fine with a 500 watt Corsair CX 500. You can seriously damage your PC by doing this. What are the rest of your specs?
 
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