Sapphire r9 380x nitro

[SteamedCabbage]

Hey all, so I bought a Sapphire R9 380x Nitro off ebay to replace my 750ti, and realised that I only have a 500w PSU. Once it arrives my rig will be an AMD Athlon x4 860K, 8GB DDR3 RAM and the 380x. I have heard that the 380X was power hungry and was wondering, would my PSU be able to support it? This is the PSU http://www.awd-it.co.uk/evga-500w-80-plus-certified-psu-power-supply.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiAx7XBBRCdyNOw6PLHrYABEiQAJtyEQ-BMwSRunIudce1LaiASO5nH5oamiCDP6sG6WN8kIasaAvht8P8HAQ . Many thanks

[Guest]

Should be fine

[SteamedCabbage]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Should be fine

Cheers I was shitting myself then because I dont have enough to upgrade my PSU lol

[HKZeroFive]

The power supply isn't particularly good but it should power the R9 380X fine.

[SteamedCabbage]

Just now, HKZeroFive said:

The power supply isn't particularly good but it should power the R9 380X fine.

Thank you

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

Should have enough power to hold it but Dont over clock to much 

[EPPHO]

Should be fine tho your cpu will bottleneck

[SteamedCabbage]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

Should be fine tho your cpu will bottleneck

It wont really...

[EPPHO]

Just now, SteamedCabbage said:

It wont really...

In GTA 5,Witcher 3,BF1 it will

[SteamedCabbage]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

In GTA 5,Witcher 3,BF1 it will

That's not bottlenecking lmao, those games are cpu intensive. It wont perform well because my CPU isnt good enough to run those games well (yet I still get 60fps in gta v.)

[Coaxialgamer]

More than enough . It's only a 200W card . I've seen people run 390's on 500w just fine.

[SteamedCabbage]

Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

More than enough . It's only a 200W card . I've seen people run 390's on 500w just fine.

Cheers

[EPPHO]

1 minute ago, SteamedCabbage said:

That's not bottlenecking lmao, those games are cpu intensive. It wont perform well because my CPU isnt good enough to run those games well (yet I still get 60fps in gta v.)

If your GPU is not running at >95% load while gaming then it is bottleneck. I doubt your cpu keeps it over 90%. And yes,it is bottleneck,that what you said makes no sense

[SteamedCabbage]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

If your GPU is not running at >95% load while gaming then it is bottleneck. I doubt your cpu keeps it over 90%. And yes,it is bottleneck,that what you said makes no sense

Not a thread about bottlenecking and I know that I wont be getting full 100% performance. If I wanted advice on bottlenecking then I would of asked. I will upgrade my CPU when I have the money too, but right now that's not at the top of my list.

[EPPHO]

Just now, SteamedCabbage said:

Not a thread about bottlenecking and I know that I wont be getting full 100% performance. If I wanted advice on bottlenecking then I would of asked. I will upgrade my CPU when I have the money too, but right now that's not at the top of my list.

I know man,just saying.

[Coaxialgamer]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

If your GPU is not running at >95% load while gaming then it is bottleneck. I doubt your cpu keeps it over 90%. And yes,it is bottleneck,that what you said makes no sense

you could say that if your cpu isn't at 100% it is a GPU botttleneck . There will ALWAYS be a bottleneck in a system , whether it is gpu , cpu , ram etc . 

 

and i don't see why a cpu bottleneck is that much worse than a gpu bottleneck . 

 

Plus, the 860k will be fine .Multithreaded perfomance is comparable to an i3.