To get it out of the way, here are the specs of my current system:
Ryzen 3600
GTX 980ti
2 by 16 GB corsair vengeance lpx ddr4 memory
2 phanteks case fans
2 corsair case fans
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black RGB
2 SATA SSDs
1 Toshiba 2 TB 7200 rpm HDD
1 wd blue 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD
2 wd velociraptor 1TB 10K rpm HDDs
Corsair RM850x PSU
And since I don't game very much anymore, and instead just use my 980ti for machine learning, I bought an ASUS RX580 Dual 4G card that I was hoping to use as a display adaptor to drive my monitors (I am on linux so the older amd card made sense, plus it was cheap), but when I checked my system power consumption in outervision, I got the following result:
Which is, needless to say, greater than 850 watts.
Now I have a buddy with an HD 7950 that he is looking to upgrade, and this RX580 fits his budget, but when I plug in the HD7950 instead of the RX580 in outervision, I get the following result:
Which is below 850 watts, but outer vision still thinks I need a better power supply. considering that its somewhere around 300 dollars to get a decent 1000 watt PSU (ouch!) I just want to know if I am cutting it too close on my PSU's rating.
Can I add the RX580 to my system?
Can I add the 7950 instead?
Can I add neither to my system?
Thanks for the input