r9 290 will work on a 600w

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No, but it's really not much of a difference and the 770 runs cooler and on less power
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Corsair GS series is a quality PSU. The AMD's specs call for 48A on +12V rail for the entire system, exactly the maximum this PSU can provide. 12V rail is not only used by the VGA, but many other components, so this would certainly work, but the PSU would be working under rather high load. Still, there is likely nothing to worry about considering the quality of Corsair's GS series.

EDIT: For more headroom, this one will do just fine as long as you don't Crossfire:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087
 
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The R9 290 has been known to consume, at absolute maximum load, 372 Watts of power. It averages at more like 250 Watts, however.

Given that it's quite a power-hungry piece of equipment the more Wattage you can throw at it, the better, however, a 600w PSU will be more than enough to allow the card at around 80%-90%.

Just make sure your PSU has the correct PCIe power connectors to power the card.
 
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my graphic card now is amd radeon hd 6970 do you think i should upgrade and what is more powerful the evga geforce gtx 770 dual sc acx 4gb or the amd r9 290 because i want one of those cards

and thanks for the help
 
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i have an intel i5 2500k
 
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LucoTF

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Get the 770, just slightly less performance but it runs on less power so you won't have to upgrade your GS600
 
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ok thanks but this is not the regular gtx 770 is the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Dual SC w/ EVGA ACX Cooler
this version of the gtx 770 is not better than the r9 290 ?

 
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No, but it's really not much of a difference and the 770 runs cooler and on less power
 
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