Not Enough Power?

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Ryandongg

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Hi, I recently bought a Asus Radeon R9 290x reference card and pcpartspicker noted the wattage I might need exceeded 500W (which is the supply I have). I’m wondering if I will have to buy a bigger PSU. I have yet to install the GPU just incase I screw something up with it not being enough power.

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AMD A10-5800k
Corsair H60 -gifted
Gigabyte 85x-UP4
Patriot 3 2x4GB 1600
Team SSD 125GB LTE
WD 1TB HDD
Corsair CX500w
Asus R9 290x reference card - gifted
 
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Generally speaking you'd need a new PSU, overall those old CXes are not very good units.
However, that A10 will be bottlenecking the R9 so hard that it'll likely never reach 100% utilization which would mean you'd probably be ok with the old CX wattage wise.
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Generally speaking you'd need a new PSU, overall those old CXes are not very good units.
However, that A10 will be bottlenecking the R9 so hard that it'll likely never reach 100% utilization which would mean you'd probably be ok with the old CX wattage wise.
 
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zyh1987

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it’s not ideal, I would say try with your 5000w first. If you experience weird issues. I would suggest you to get a bigger one, even though the average power draw is within 500w limit, peak power draw may trip over current protection or cause unwant voltage spikes.
 
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Hey , thanks for your reply. I am looking into getting a new cpu/mobo. I have a friend I spoke to that runs an Intel i5-4570 with a 500w.

Would you be able to recommend a CPU that will pair well with my new GPU? I prefer AMD as Intel is pricey for my budget.
 
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Ryzen 5 1600 or 2600.
You'll also need DDR4 RAM which is quite pricey as of now.
 
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