Good PSU for Sapphire ATI/AMD R7 240 1GB DDR5 GPU

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I'm planning to buy a Sapphire ATI/AMD R7 240 1GB DDR5 GPU. For this purpose, I'm looking for a new power supply unit for my computer.

My specs are :
1. Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53 GHz
2. 4GB DDR3 RAM
3. 500GB HDD
4. Windows 8.1
5. GigaByte G41M Combo (Rev 2.0)

I have narrowed down my choices to these 3 PSU :
1. Corsair VS550 550 Watt Rs. 3000
2. Cooler Master Thunder 450 Watt Rs. 2600
3. Corsair CX430 430 Watts Rs. 2800

Which one of these is best for my config? I heard that CX is better than VS series, so please suggest me which one to buy in my case.

Also, I'm confused between R7 240 1GB DDR5 vs R7 240 2GB DDR3.
* Which one gives better performance and which one should I go for? (Both are more or less the same price).
* Will my motherboard support this card?

I request you to give me answers to all my above mentioned questions.


 
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Hello,
Sapphire AMD graphic cards are very good products. Wise decision there. Actually at whole it looks a very solid build and it would handle games at respectable frames.

PSU : 550W psu would be more than enough for an one overclocked gpu and an one overclocked cpu. Actually to your system 550w is too much. But if you plan to upgrade components later, Then buy it. Use this site to calculate how much power you whole build would consume.

http://www.coolermaster.outervision.com/

If I was you I would go with a Corsair one because of the quality of the game. But it doesn't matter a lot. It just power what they give.

GPU : Most of today games would benefit from 2GBs of video ram. 1GB is pretty much outdated. Specially in 1080p...
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Hello,
Sapphire AMD graphic cards are very good products. Wise decision there. Actually at whole it looks a very solid build and it would handle games at respectable frames.

PSU : 550W psu would be more than enough for an one overclocked gpu and an one overclocked cpu. Actually to your system 550w is too much. But if you plan to upgrade components later, Then buy it. Use this site to calculate how much power you whole build would consume.

http://www.coolermaster.outervision.com/

If I was you I would go with a Corsair one because of the quality of the game. But it doesn't matter a lot. It just power what they give.

GPU : Most of today games would benefit from 2GBs of video ram. 1GB is pretty much outdated. Specially in 1080p gaming 2gigs would come handy. And not only the VRAM you should also have a good GPU too. R7 240 is a budget graphic card. If I was you I would save a bit and would go for something like R7 265

But anyway 2GB of vram would come decent.

Your mobo doesn't actually matter. Most of pci gen 3 graphic cards supports pcie gen 2 interfaces with no performance loss.

Hope this helped :)
 
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