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Will a Thermaltake TR2 600w run a R9 280x Gigabyte 3GB Windforce card, clocked at 1000MHz with a boost clock of 1100MHz?

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Technically yes but that power supply is such a sketchy POS I don't recommend it because I have that thing. Can't overclock something worth a damn.

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Technically yes but that power supply is such a sketchy POS I don't recommend it because I have that thing. Can't overclock something worth a damn.

Ahh, don't really want to overclock anyways. The boost clock is enough for me, but i just wanted to now if it'd run normally and stabilty with a 600w PSU :\. Sucks that i'm gonna have to buy 900w just to have to deal with AMD's power hungry cards xD.

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Ahh, don't really want to overclock anyways. The boost clock is enough for me, but i just wanted to now if it'd run normally and stabilty with a 600w PSU :\. Sucks that i'm gonna have to buy 900w just to have to deal with AMD's power hungry cards xD.

Nah, that's unlikely unless you're using some extreme cards.

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I don't recommend Thermaltake PSU's, they're popular for their unreliability. But, yes it would

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I've used thermaltake power supplies before and they aren't too bad. I would say what you have would be fine for your setup.

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Ahh, don't really want to overclock anyways. The boost clock is enough for me, but i just wanted to now if it'd run normally and stabilty with a 600w PSU :\. Sucks that i'm gonna have to buy 900w just to have to deal with AMD's power hungry cards xD.

You don't a need 900w PSU for that get a 750w 80 plus gold rated like a Corsair RM series

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If its not 80+ bronze or better than I'm not sure it will work well.

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If its not 80+ bronze or better than I'm not sure it will work well.

That's not a very good way to decide whether a PSU is good or not. 

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That's not a very good way to decide whether a PSU is good or not.

Its a good start.

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The 80Plus rating is not necessary. You don't NEED an 80Plus Bronze unit to run a single high end card, or a Gold unit to run SLI/Crossfire. Not how it works.

 

TR2

 

What unit is it specifically?

Either way, it would probably work. But the unit is pretty poor.

 

Worth mentioning, you will only be able to power an R9 280X that has an 8pin + 6pin, not 2x 8pins, unless you want to use molex adapters which I don't recommend.

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Ahh, don't really want to overclock anyways. The boost clock is enough for me, but i just wanted to now if it'd run normally and stabilty with a 600w PSU :\. Sucks that i'm gonna have to buy 900w just to have to deal with AMD's power hungry cards xD.

 

You don't need a 900W for AMD cards...I was running three (3) Radeon HD 5850's off a 850W PSU back in the day.

It's just low to mid-level PSU's from Thermaltake...are pretty bad.

 

You can run an overclocked CPU + overclocked R9-280X off a well-built 500W - 550W PSU.

 

This is measured from the wall socket with a FX-8350 @ 4.8GHz using, and a HD 7970 (AKA R9-280X) @ 1150 / 1500. My PSU being 80 PLUS Bronze, that's about 460W actually being used by the PC.

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Its a good start.

If one car gets 40 MPG while another one gets 30, it doesn't mean the one that gets 40 is the better car. It's just better in efficiency and when looking at MPG numbers or 80+ ratings, it's just that. Efficiency. 

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