Can my power supply support MSI GTX 750 TI TF 2GDDR5/OC ?

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My power supply labeled 500w (non brand) .It has also one 6 pin connector . +12v1 11A and 12v2 14 A,(300W MAX) and +3.3V 21 A. +5v 18 A,(160W MAX) -12v 0.3 A (5W MAX) & +5VSB 2.5A(12.5W MAX).
 
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That unit is not terrible. Probably better than the CX, although it's a slightly older, probably group regulated design. It should work fine.
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I would not, even if alone on a desert island, use that power supply for anything up to and including powering a light bulb. That is about as off, off, off brand as it gets. Cheap Chinese swap meet quality fire starter is what that is. If you value your hardware, and the investment you made in it, get a quality power supply.

I would not use that unit on ANY system, whether it had a discreet graphics card or not. Seriously. In over 25 years of doing this, more like 30 years probably, I've never even heard of that brand, and in the next thirty years, I'll probably never hear of it again. It doesn't even come up in ANY related search for the model or thebestchallenger, except on thebestchallenger website which is clearly geared towards offloading cheap crap.

Get a 450w or higher unit of at least Tier 3, preferably tier 1 or 2, as listed here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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If you can tell me what country you are in and what your budget for a power supply might be, for now or later, I'd be glad to recommend a good unit that would suit your graphics card. Just, please don't use that one with it. It might WORK, but it's highly likely to cause damage. If not sooner, then certainly before long.

I can't even find a manufacturer label or who MAKES the damn thing, to even give you concrete evidence of it's unworthiness, and that's a bad thing. Even most crappy units have tons of information out there on them. Units that don't, are really bad news.
 
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That psu indicate also six protect functions OVP ,UVP, OCP ,OLP,SCP, LIGHTNING PROTECTION, & Certifications : CE ,ROHS ,CCC. But i not yet buy that graphics card ,but i have plan to buy psu later . my cpu is core i5 4570 3.2 ghz ,motherboard gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3 (rev 2.0) ,8gb ddr3 transcend 1600 bus ram ,500 gb sata (toshiba) hdd ,Asus dvd rom . MY UPS is 650 VA (390 Watts) http://macgreen.com.sg/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=60&page=1 . I live in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
I wanna buy this psu ....


http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001799
 
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No, do NOT buy that PSU. Thermaltake Smart series and TR2 units are bad news. Stick to models sold under the names of Seasonic, Super Flower, some Antec models (Not all), some Cooler Master models (Definitely not all, in fact, few), XFX, Rosewill (Capstone series only), or in this particular case, since they seem to be available in your area, although I normally advise AGAINST getting one, the Corsair CX, CS or RM series units might be your only option for an even half good unit. And I say half good with a large measure of "understand these are NOT good units", but are much better than what you have now.

For the most part, anything sold by Corsair, Thermaltake and Cooler Master is junk unless it's one of their expensive models. Avoid Thermaltake altogether when it comes to power supplies.
 
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That's just about the worst power supply ever made by a name brand company. I specifically said, in my post above,

Thermaltake Smart series and TR2 units are bad news.
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But apparently you either didn't read the post, or didn't absorb what I wrote. That POS unit you bought is exactly what brought me to Tom's hardware in the beginning, and for that I'm thankful. But that's the only thing there is, or will ever be, to be thankful about when it comes to Thermaltake TR2 power supplies. Here's the link to my first thread on Tom's Hardware, so you can see.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2194316/likelihood-psu-failure.html
 
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80plus certifications, bronze, gold, silver, platinum, titanium, are absolutely NO measure of unit quality, only efficiency. So a unit could test with a high efficiency in the lab, but be entirely incapable of running your hardware at it's rated CAPACITY, or die two days after testing. 80plus is total crap and has nothing whatsoever to do with it being a good unit. The TR2 is junk. Plain and simple. I have much experience with that unit in real life and here on Tom's, and in every single case the power supply was the source of some kind of problem or total failure. I've seen the TR2 destroy hardware on three systems.

 
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That is one of the newer TR2 700w units, and is not the same platform or the same unit as what you linked to above. Also, there is a lot of trickery in the market and if you want to go with one of those units, you'd better make sure the unit you order is the EXACT same SKU number as the one in that review because there are still a ton of the older SKU numbers being sold through various vendors including TigerDirect and Newegg among others.

Also, regardless of that review, which is almost certainly based on a cherry picked unit rather than a market unit, given the history of ALL Thermaltake power supplies and the price of the unit, there are absolutely better units available for the same price or possibly even less. One review does not a great unit make. The Corsair CX units have decent reviews too, but we know they are crap and have a very high failure rate.
 
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