PSU recommendation for R9 290 VaporX

metal5890

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I'm looking into getting the R9 290 Vapor-X (Not the 290X) but im not sure if my PSU will handle it under full load. On newegg it's listed as requiring a 750W PSU but I've read in other places that that's not really the case if your PSU is built ok. Currently I have a Rosewill Fortress 550W and not sure if i really need to upgrade or not. As far as everything else in the computer:

MOBO: Asrock 970 extreme3
CPU: AMD FX-8350
RAM: Gskill ripjaws 1333 8GB
SSD: 120 GB OCZ Agility 3
HDD: 1TB WD black, and 500 GB WD green
GPU: Sapphire HD 7950 dual-x
Case: Rosewill THRONE with 5 fans
Optical: some random dvd drive
and a rosewill card reader
Let me know if you need anymore information and thanks in advance for the info!
 

metal5890

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Wow that card is pretty cheap actually, is it really better than the 290? I'm not anywhere near being a fanboy but i do like my AMD gpu. However, if there's some hard (and reputable) evidence I'd grab this and feel like i just robbed somebody if i can get it at those prices.
 
Well i am not being any kind of biased here i am just telling you the fact you can watch few reviews in YouTube to make sure the new maxwel technology is very power efficient and comes with some really cool features .

There's also a raft of other new technologies featured in the Maxwell architecture release, including multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing (MFAA), dynamic super resolution (DSR), VR Direct and an energy-efficient design to enable Maxwell-based GTX 980 and 970 GPUs to render frames with a much higher fidelity at higher clock speeds and lower power consumption.

The multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing technology is new for Nvidia as it arrives for the first time in its Maxwell GPUs. It works by varying the anti-aliasing sample patterns across pixels both within an individual frame and between multiple frames. It then uses a newly developed synthesis filter to produce better image qualities and promises to do so faster than conventional anti-aliasing.

As for dynamic super resolution, Nvidia said the technology means the Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980 GPUs can deliver higher fidelity gaming experiences even for those playing on standard HD 1080p displays.

"With Maxwell's Dynamic Super Resolution [DSR] technology, games can be rendered at 4K or other high-end resolutions and then scaled down to the native resolution on the user's display using a 13-tap Gaussian filter," the firm said. "The resulting image is much higher quality than simply rendering directly to 1080p."

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980/26.html
 

metal5890

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yeah those benchmarks are pretty impressive, any insight as to why its so cheap? i feel like for that performance level it should be more lol and it just came out only a few days ago.