Do I have enough Power?

[Grimlorn]

Hello All!

 

So I am considering of adding another R9 290 to my rig, I am wonder if I will have enough power supply my whole rig. I do not overclock.

 

CPU: FX 9590 w/ H100i

MOBO: ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z

RAM: Corsair Dominator 16GB

GPU Vapor-X R9 290

PSU: Corsair RM 850 Watt 80+ Gold

 

About 9 Fans in my case including the ones the H100i

[Brandogg255]

yes your psu should be enought with about 60wats spare at full tilt

i used a psu calculator, google it

[SuperPug]

Should be enough but barely... under load the psu is gonna be working very hard.

[BurgerBum]

Hello All!

 

So I am considering of adding another R9 290 to my rig, I am wonder if I will have enough power supply my whole rig. I do not overclock.

 

CPU: FX 9590 w/ H100i

MOBO: ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z

RAM: Corsair Dominator 16GB

GPU Vapor-X R9 290

PSU: Corsair RM 850 Watt 80+ Gold

 

About 9 Fans in my case including the ones the H100i

1 damn you nice rig.

2 im pretty sure... but im not certian. use pcpartpicker.com and configure your rig after the upgrade and it should calculate it for you.

also good to wait for the rest of the forums to tell you.  

 

1(again) damn nice rig... *jelly*

[MegaDave91]

yes your psu should be enought with about 60wats spare at full tilt

i used a psu calculator, google it

He'll have a lot more than that to spare. Fans practically sip power.

[MountainDrew]

That seems to be cutting it pretty close, but it might be enough.

 

PCPartPicker list without fans: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WcnHbv

 

I would upgrade the PSU before doing crossfire with that 290 (just what I would do personally).

[Grimlorn]

That seems to be cutting it pretty close, but it might be enough.

 

PCPartPicker list without fans: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WcnHbv

 

I would upgrade the PSU before doing crossfire with that 290 (just what I would do personally).

Thank you !! Yes, I see how it would cut close and it would be pretty daring to add another R9 290, I skimped out on better power supply unfortunately.

 

1 damn you nice rig.

2 im pretty sure... but im not certian. use pcpartpicker.com and configure your rig after the upgrade and it should calculate it for you.

also good to wait for the rest of the forums to tell you.  

 

1(again) damn nice rig... *jelly*

Thank you!! It took a lot of work into it, but its not stopping you get a even better one than me!! I do wish I had never gotten then FX 9590, its just space heater and I don't use it to its full potential sadly.

 

yes your psu should be enought with about 60wats spare at full tilt

i used a psu calculator, google it

Thank you for the advice im looking into it now

[KemoKa]

It will work, but it's not gonna be efficient.

[BurgerBum]

Thank you !! Yes, I see how it would cut close and it would be pretty daring to add another R9 290, I skimped out on better power supply unfortunately.

 

Thank you!! It took a lot of work into it, but its not stopping you get a even better one than me!! I do wish I had never gotten then FX 9590, its just space heater and I don't use it to its full potential sadly.

 

Thank you for the advice im looking into it now

im looking at an 8350. i know games will eventually put those cores to use in the future and that i know i'll be doing all sorts of other things with em. 

also telling my friends i put an octacore cpu in my custom pc would just blow thier minds. (they live with thier sempy 145 and 4 gigs of ram i built for them ages ago)

[Grimlorn]

im looking at an 8350. i know games will eventually put those cores to use in the future and that i know i'll be doing all sorts of other things with em. 

also telling my friends i put an octacore cpu in my custom pc would just blow thier minds. (they live with thier sempy 145 and 4 gigs of ram i built for them ages ago)

haha! I know exactly how you feel! Hopefully they'll start take into use for those cores too! 

[BurgerBum]

haha! I know exactly how you feel! Hopefully they'll start take into use for those cores too! 

^~^ yey

[MoDtEc]

to OP: Youre fine with that psu calculators usually overestimate a bit to motivate you to buy a bigger=pricier PSU

 

octacore in games? thats quite a way to go considering the fact theat quad cores are becoming standard at the time being. BUT if the next generation of consoles switch to octas we may see octacore-support on a regular basis

ill stick with my i7 for quite a while. 

8350 woud be baller though considering e-peen......

[BurgerBum]

to OP: Youre fine with that psu calculators usually overestimate a bit to motivate you to buy a bigger=pricier PSU

 

octacore in games? thats quite a way to go considering the fact theat quad cores are becoming standard at the time being. BUT if the next generation of consoles switch to octas we may see octacore-support on a regular basis

ill stick with my i7 for quite a while. 

8350 woud be baller though considering e-peen......

current gen consoles are 12 cores. x'D mind you its an APU but its still more than 8 cores. x'D 

 

dual cores just dont cut it anymore sadly. quad cores are enough for now, a 6 core is nice if you're a streamer/recorder.

and 8 cores i just say is good headroom and good for the future. also loads of multi tasking.x'D 

[MoDtEc]

current gen consoles are 12 cores. x'D mind you its an APU but its still more than 8 cores. x'D 

 

dual cores just dont cut it anymore sadly. quad cores are enough for now, a 6 core is nice if you're a streamer/recorder.

and 8 cores i just say is good headroom and good for the future. also loads of multi tasking.x'D 

12 cores which are unable to do some reasonable work because of graphics :'D

sorry i didnt bother looking it up

the HT on my i7 is enough so far dont got the money to change anyways

[Dabombinable]

current gen consoles are 12 cores. x'D mind you its an APU but its still more than 8 cores. x'D 

 

dual cores just dont cut it anymore sadly. quad cores are enough for now, a 6 core is nice if you're a streamer/recorder.

and 8 cores i just say is good headroom and good for the future. also loads of multi tasking.x'D 

If you know how to set up your rig dual core cpus do just fine in games pre 2013, and in quite a few released since then, though I haven't made a final judgement on that because my rig still hasn't gone past 4GHz stable for any long period of time.

[BurgerBum]

If you know how to set up your rig dual core cpus do just fine in games pre 2013, and in quite a few released since then, though I haven't made a final judgement on that because my rig still hasn't gone past 4GHz stable for any long period of time.

exactly. 

they do okay. for now.

[Dabombinable]

exactly. 

they do okay. for now.

Lol, and with a quad core 1 year newer it will be good for another 6-7 years.