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Help! R280 Power Consumption

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July 26, 2014 3:38:54 AM

Hi,

I'm a complete noobie building my first system, so I thought I'd check here about power before
I make a mistake.

Basically wondering how much power is needed for system roughly looking like:
Some new i5
R280
1x 1Tb Hard drive
1x SSD

And everything else just standard.

I'm considering this: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/500w-corsair-cxm-builder...

Would you guys give this the go-ahead?

Cheers! :) 

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July 26, 2014 3:39:54 AM

Is £50 your budget? Can you go higher?
I wouldn't really use a CX 500 with a R280.
See if you can get this unit:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-power-supply-p1650x...
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July 26, 2014 3:49:46 AM

Here's a quality unit that costs less than the CX500: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-power-supply-p1550s...
Suztera's suggestion is also great, and it will offer more options for future GPU/CPU upgrades, so it pretty much depends on how much you're willing to spend.
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