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R9 290 on 650w psu
Can I run a radeon R9 290 on a Gigabyte greenmax 650w 80+ bronze powersupply
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October 15, 2014 2:07:43 AM

Ok thank you very much!!
October 15, 2014 1:48:36 AM

tommyducker19 said:
Should be fine. I know the 290 draws 300W but you have a decent rated PSU. Depending on how many other drives your running and processor. If it's an AMD, I would up the PSU. A modern intel you should be ok. If you give me a little more info I will be able to help you better :) .


thanks I have a msi z77a-G43 mobo with an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.2ghz on a coolermaster hyper 212x aircooler, i only have a single 1tb hdd.
October 15, 2014 1:43:05 AM

Should be fine. I know the 290 draws 300W but you have a decent rated PSU. Depending on how many other drives your running and processor. If it's an AMD, I would up the PSU. A modern intel you should be ok. If you give me a little more info I will be able to help you better :) .
October 15, 2014 1:38:50 AM

going by the specs of the psu it should do. It has 4x 12v rails so you just need to make sure you spread the load over the rails evenly (eg run separate pcie cables from the psu that are on different rails to the power connectors on the card.

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