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Will my 530w PSU (Thermaltake) be enough for a Sapphire Radeon R9 280x DUAL-X?

I sure do hope I'm posting this on the right section of the forums.

I have a 530w Thermaltake SMART SE and I'm planning to purchase a Sapphire Radeon R9 280x DUAL-X as my GPU.

Complete specs of the PSU : http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model_Specification...

My full CPU component list is as follows:

-Intel i3 4150

-ASUS H81-M DS2

-4GB Kingston Hyper X Fury (will buy another stick for to make it 8GB soon)

-1TB Seagate HDD

-2 Bitfenix Prodigy M Fans

-24" Toshiba Monitor

All components are on stock speeds and I don't plan on overclocking anything anytime soon. I also don't plan to overclock my GPU when I get it.

Thank you for your answers :)

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appreciate the answer but i need more replies just to make sure with a bit of statements to back it up

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You can put the parts on pcparticker and it'll show you an estimated wattage

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You can put the parts on pcparticker and it'll show you an estimated wattage

http://extreme.outervision.com/ i used this one and it says my system will draw 459w so I guess that's well under my 530w PSU. But it says I have to consider the rails, but I can't use the Pro version since I have to pay for it.

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