power supply help

eddy22m · March 13, 2016

i want to ask your opinion on upgrading my pc for gameing i have MSI Military class II H67MA-E45 mainboard,,intel core i5 3.10Ghz Socket LGA1155 Processor.8gb ram,500w (PSU) cooler master and the last 1 is MSI N560gtx-ti hawk 1 GB GDDR5 graphics card..i can play call of duty black ops 3 but its in low settings...i ask the pc shop what shud i upgrade and he say change graphics card to MSI R9 390 GAMING 8GB GDDR5 512BIT...do have to change my 500w psu or is that fine?i dont do overclocking i just playing games in 1 monitor.

my monitor is banq 24 inch ew2440.and if i need to change (psu) what shud i go with for a cheeper usefull (psu).

STRMfrmXMN · March 13, 2016

3 minutes ago, eddy22m said:

i want to ask your opinion on upgrading my pc for gameing i have MSI Military class II H67MA-E45 mainboard,,intel core i5 3.10Ghz Socket LGA1155 Processor.8gb ram,500w (PSU) cooler master and the last 1 is MSI N560gtx-ti hawk 1 GB GDDR5 graphics card..i can play call of duty black ops 3 but its in low settings...i ask the pc shop what shud i upgrade and he say change graphics card to MSI R9 390 GAMING 8GB GDDR5 512BIT...do have to change my 500w psu or is that fine?i dont do overclocking i just playing games in 1 monitor.

my monitor is banq 24 inch ew2440.and if i need to change (psu) what shud i go with for a cheeper usefull (psu).

Cooler Master has some bad low-end units and I'd assume that's one of them. I'd go for an Antec HCG, EVGA B2/GS/GQ/G2, Seasonic M12/G-series or check out the PSU whitelist in my sig.