VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION

[desiigner93]

Is 550w oem psu (unfortunatly) enough for r9 280x

and i have ryzen 5 2600 not overclocked is it going to botlleneck orrr what i mean i searched everywhere and i foun many answers soo im confused (sorry for bad spelling if there is some but yeah).

 

tnx!

[seon123]

Depends on which model that PSU is.

[pstarlord]

If it's a good PSU, then it should be fine.  OEM's don't usually make their own parts, they usually get the parts supplied from another manufacturer, if you're able to find out what the PSU's model number or who manufactured it, then that would be really helpful. 

 

A good 500 watt PSU will power most setups, honestly.  In 2017 when I first started getting into building PC's, 500 watts was the minimum and what almost all the "budget builds" were using, even on youtuber's pages.  

 

The 2600 will keep up just fine with that GPU just fine. 

[desiigner93]

1 hour ago, pstarlord said:

If it's a good PSU, then it should be fine.  OEM's don't usually make their own parts, they usually get the parts supplied from another manufacturer, if you're able to find out what the PSU's model number or who manufactured it, then that would be really helpful. 

 

A good 500 watt PSU will power most setups, honestly.  In 2017 when I first started getting into building PC's, 500 watts was the minimum and what almost all the "budget builds" were using, even on youtuber's pages.  

 

The 2600 will keep up just fine with that GPU just fine. 

Emmm dobt have the picture of it right now but this picture ,if you can see it, show exactly how it looks like just mine says its 550W and sorry if im dumb but this is my first pc that i bought and build soo im new in this world and im trying to get better so tnx for the replies

[pstarlord]

Need a picture of the exact model.  The one you've pictured is a 300 watt PSU, that certainly won't work. 

[desiigner93]

8 hours ago, pstarlord said:

Need a picture of the exact model.  The one you've pictured is a 300 watt PSU, that certainly won't work. 

Sryy but at that time for me was like 1 am so i couldnt go to pc and open it i know thats a 300w psu nvm i will take a picture now

 

8 hours ago, pstarlord said:

Need a picture of the exact model.  The one you've pictured is a 300 watt PSU, that certainly won't work. 

Like i said it looks the same as the one above like physicaly and these are the pictures of mine i hope its enough

[Whiro]

2 minutes ago, desiigner93 said:

Like i said it looks the same as the one above like physicaly and these are the pictures of mine i hope its enough

You should be good, it’s nothing amazing so you should consider replacing it, that would be your best option but for time being it’ll do the job. Only question is, does it have any pcie connectors? As far as I remember 280x need two 6 pins

[desiigner93]

Just now, Whiro said:

You should be good, it’s nothing amazing so you should consider replacing it, that would be your best option but for time being it’ll do the job. Only question is, does it have any pcie connectors? As far as I remember 280x need two 6 pins

No you see i first i need to get money so i can buy the gpu aaaand the conectors bc it doesnt have any my concern is then do conenctors use more power 

[Whiro]

6 minutes ago, desiigner93 said:

No you see i first i need to get money so i can buy the gpu aaaand the conectors bc it doesnt have any my concern is then do conenctors use more power 

So you don’t have the gpu yet, is it not better to look for something like 1050 ? It’ll perform similar but consumes much less power and don’t need extra power connectors 

[desiigner93]

9 minutes ago, Whiro said:

So you don’t have the gpu yet, is it not better to look for something like 1050 ? It’ll perform similar but consumes much less power and don’t need extra power connectors 

i just think its way more expensive lik in my country some used gpu r9 280x is 50 euros and msi gtx 1050 is 70e and 1050 ti is 75e but my problem is 1st im a teenager and my parents wont and cant buy me that, 2nd corona, 3rd i dont have a job and dont have money so yeah they agreed to 40-50e for the gpu.  

[desiigner93]

2 minutes ago, desiigner93 said:

i just think its way more expensive lik in my country some used gpu r9 280x is 50 euros and msi gtx 1050 is 70e and 1050 ti is 75e but my problem is 1st im a teenager and my parents wont and cant buy me that, 2nd corona, 3rd i dont have a job and dont have money so yeah they agreed to 40-50e for the gpu.  

also i think r9 is better gpu overall