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Is 500w enough for my build?

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     Hello people, i was just wondering if a 500w psu is enough for my build. My pc is going to have a sapphire r9 270 dual-x, fx-6300, 1x8gb(probably would get another dem in the future) 1600 mhz cl10 ram, x2 120mm and x1 140mm case fans and a micro atx am3+ mobo. Btw, the psu is a 500w evga 80plus certified psu. Thanks. 

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yes, but you'll need to upgrade if you want to XFIRE.

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with your current setup 

 

no worries

 

multi gpu setups is when you need to upgrade PSU

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See for yourself: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp . Use that wattage calulator to determine if you'll have enough.

 

Without doing that however, 500w should be fine. My setup is nearly identical to yours, with a 500w powering mine. I wouldn't mind switching to 600 sometime so i can run xfire but for now, 500 is just fine.

 

BTW, what aboud hard drives?

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I always like to give enough space to add another card of the same model, cause you may save $20-30, but then you have to buy another complete power supply and you've just thrown $50-80 out of your window.

I'd probably go for something like a 700-750w PSU as in-future, them 270s will be going cheap in a year or so and they will still be awesome in crossfire.

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See for yourself: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp . Use that wattage calulator to determine if you'll have enough.

 

Without doing that however, 500w should be fine. My setup is nearly identical to yours, with a 500w powering mine. I wouldn't mind switching to 600 sometime so i can run xfire but for now, 500 is just fine.

 

BTW, what aboud hard drives?

     Im going to be using a 500gb laptop hard drive that i have and then ill upgrade to a 2tb cavair black in the future.

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     Im going to be using a 500gb laptop hard drive that i have and then ill upgrade to a 2tb cavair black in the future.

Sorry for late reply, been busy moving into a new place. You've probably already gotten a PSU by this point. But with that hard drive, and including your future upgrade, you should be just fine @500w. I run 2 HDDs and an SSD off of my 500w. Thats about all I can run right now until I upgrade.

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