Is an EVGA 750 Watt Bronze 80 Plus Power Supply Enough to push this?

Johnny Baker · Mar 19, 2016

I am building an AMD rig and would like to know if an EVGA 750 Watt Bronze 80 Plus PSU will be enough to push the following:

1) AMD 8370 CPU clocked at 4.0 OC/boost to 4.3
2) 16 gigs of DDR3 Ram
3) MSI 970 chipset motherboard
4) Gigabyte R9 380X Gaming Graphics Card with 8 gigs that requires a 600 watt psu at a minimum. I have also looked at an MSI R9 380 4 gig gaming graphics card that requires a 500 watt psu at a minimum.

I really want to go with the 8 gig card as I know it will provide much better graphics performance, down the line than the other but I am still open, to suggestions, at this point.

Thanks so much folks, I appreciate it all.

Someone Somewhere · Mar 19, 2016

Perfectly fine.

I wouldn't try to add a second GPU, though.

Nuckles_56 · Mar 19, 2016

That PSU would be just fine, it will be plenty of power even if you were to overclock heavily. I would suggest if you can afford it, to get the r9 390, which makes much better use of the 8GB of vRAM it has

DustinV · Mar 19, 2016

is it the EVGA 750 B2?? if so yes, and its a good unit. Also i wouldnt get the 8370 cpu, an intel quad core will perform much better.
4 gig is more than enough, the 8 gb might be helpful at higher resolutions. I recommend the Sapphire R9 380 /380x very very good gpu

DustinV · Mar 19, 2016

Someone Somewhere :

He said he was looking at buying the 380x or the 380, not that he was going to buy both

Someone Somewhere · Mar 19, 2016

I know that. But a reasonable number of people want to add SLI/Crossfire in future, and I'm saying that would be a bad idea.

Johnny Baker · Mar 19, 2016

Thanks to all of you. I have learned an awful lot, of late, getting ready to build this beast and believe me, I still need to learn way more. I have begun ordering my parts, each weak so it doesn't tear up my weekly budget, that I have allowed for this. I do not plan to Crossfire/SLI anytime in the very near future, maybe much later down the line when Occulus Rift & VR have most of the bugs worked out.

Now to Dustin, especially: I found what I believe is a really good deal on the Gigabyte version of the R9 380X at 8 gigs of ram, clocked at something like 1020 or slightly better than that. Believe me, it's less than $80 difference for the R9 380 4 gig version I had been planning on. I wanted my GPU to be the biggest $$$$ amount purchase and it looks as though, it will be. As an aside, that PSU is the B2 version of it and I should have that thing in less than a week at a cost of about $65 shipped.

Again thanks to all, it is appreciated.

Johnny

DustinV · Mar 19, 2016

Johnny Baker :

No problem, I really enjoy the easy part of building a pc, (making the build) then you get to do the hard physical labor, building the pc

(at least its hard for me because im a as thin as a twig)

Anyways, Glad to help, Enjoy!

Johnny Baker · Mar 20, 2016

My parts are beginning to come in and I can't wait until they arrive. I want to get this thing up and running. Anything is better than what I was using before, lol. had a very good cpu, 10 gigs of memory but a 340 watt psu along with an r7-240 graphics card and it has died, about 2 months ago. I am using an HP all in one, not bad but definitely nothing to write home about.

Again thanks and I will let you know how it turns out.

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