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I need to know if that setup will work together and if PSU is good enough. I was using laptops for years but i decided to buy a pc that i could easlly overclock to reasonable level.

Case: be Quiet Silent Base 800 Orange [88GBP]

Cooler: be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 3 [65GBP]

Motherboard+CPU Bundle: Gigabyte Z97X UD5H-BK, Intel 4 Core i5 4690K [352GBP at amazzon]

GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 TRI-X Internal Graphic Card 4096 MB [250GBP]

PSU: [strike]be quiet! DARK POWER PRO 11 850W[/strike] be quiet! DARK POWER PRO 11 1000W (thanks Sapphire Thunder) [185GBP]

Ram: G.Skill F3-2400C11Q-32GXM Memory Module 32 GB 2400 MHz CL10 DDR3-RAM - XMP2400 11-13-13-31-40 at 1.65v (height of sticks is 39mm and Dark Rock Pro 3 have 41mm memory clearance) [196GBP]

SSD: Samsung SAM 850 Pro 512GB 2.5 inch SATA III [197GBP] or INTEL SSD Series 750 400GB PCIe 3.0 (for extra 137GBP if i have enough)

q1: is PSU strong enough for that system and future upgrades like aditional gpu?

q2: is it worth to go for alternative 16gb quad chanell kit with similar OC capabilities like Kingston Beast - 16GB Kit* (4x4GB) - DDR3 2400MHz CL11 HX324C11T3K4/16 [124GBP at amazzon]

Edit1: Changed PSU to 1000w

Edit2: added prices

Edit3: fixed q3
 
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With one R9 290, you need only something like 650-700W (enough for adding few ssd/hdd in the config)
And the 16Gb is plenty, + you don't really need 2400Mhz RAM, a 1866Mhz would be enough.
So you can re-think the RAM according to that.

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[strike]It should be enough.Though I'm not quite sure about the overall power consumption of the R9 290. I think I would go with 900W just in case.[/strike]

Found an article where they measured the power consumption of R9 290. And it was 340W at maximum/peak, average was 215W.
340+340+150(cpu)+100(rest of the system) = 930W

Thus 950W is what you would need.
Or 1000W for playing it safe.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-and-290x,3728-4.html


I would say you are better off by getting GTX 970 instead of that R9 290 if you want to do a multi-gpu config later.
It's not worth it to use more money on bigger psu just so you can multi-gpu an old cards like R9 290.
 
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If i stick to one r9 290 can i still stay with 850W PSU even if i add intel 750 PCIE ssd later on ?

Also what do you think about those Kingston Beast 16gb kit instead 32gb G.Skills?
 
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With one R9 290, you need only something like 650-700W (enough for adding few ssd/hdd in the config)
And the 16Gb is plenty, + you don't really need 2400Mhz RAM, a 1866Mhz would be enough.
So you can re-think the RAM according to that.

 
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