Is my PSU good enough?

[samocamo123]

I bought a cheap 290 off eBay before realizing a 750w was recommended. I have a EVGA 500B PSU, and my specs are A10-6800k, XFX Reference 290, 8 GB of DDR3, and a Xonar DG sound card. Is the PSU enough?

[JHY]

no it is not.

[dantayy]

It will probably work, but I recommend getting a better power supply 

[samocamo123]

2 minutes ago, PCNoobie said:

no it is not.

Are you sure because I posted this on another forum also and they said it would be enough just no oc'ing because it is a very good 500w psu with enough amps on the 12V rail.

[Sakkura]

250W for the GPU, 100W for the CPU, <50W for the rest. Yeah 500W will work.

 

You'll be pushing the PSU fairly hard at full load though, combined with the below average quality I wouldn't expect it to last forever. And don't overclock.

[samocamo123]

Just now, Sakkura said:

250W for the GPU, 100W for the CPU, <50W for the rest. Yeah 500W will work.

 

You'll be pushing the PSU fairly hard at full load though, combined with the below average quality I wouldn't expect it to last forever. And don't overclock.

Will it atleast last for a couple of months so I can sell my old gpu/get more money for like a supernova g2?

[JHY]

The minimum wattage recommended that is written from the vga company is literally the minimum.

[Sakkura]

Yeah that would be fine.

[samocamo123]

Just now, PCNoobie said:

The minimum wattage recommended that is written from the vga company is literally the minimum.

That's not what Luke said in the installing a new GPU video.

[Sakkura]

Just now, PCNoobie said:

The minimum wattage recommended that is written from the vga company is literally the minimum.

No, it's literally exaggerated. They do that to account for garbage PSUs that can't output their rated power, and for systems with crazy power-hungry CPUs etc.

[STRMfrmXMN]

500W is probably borderline the minimum I would use considering overclocked 290s can breach 300W quite easily under load, however the quality of the 500B isn't fantastic and that poor little sleeve-bearing fan is going to have to run quite often to keep the PSU cool.

 

An upgrade to an EVGA 650GQ or 750B2 should do nicely.

[Sakkura]

On 20/9/2016 at 7:01 PM, STRMfrmXMN said:

500W is probably borderline the minimum I would use considering overclocked 290s can breach 300W quite easily under load, however the quality of the 500B isn't fantastic and that poor little sleeve-bearing fan is going to have to run quite often to keep the PSU cool.

 

An upgrade to an EVGA 650GQ or 750B2 should do nicely.

It's a reference 290, it will throttle if you overclock much anyway. You can expect 250W or actually somewhat less.

 

The PSU will do perfectly fine for a couple months.