350watt with r7 360 ?

MrAfroz

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Ok before I describe what I'm gonna say I dont want comments saying oh your better of getting this or spam I just want answers if this might work . Ok I bought a gigbyte r7 360x and the minimum psu requirement is 500watt now I know this is stupid but I don't have the money for a new psu so can my 350watt psu run my gpu my rig is very power efficient and not power hungry I have a duel core core duo 2 my mobo is a asrock Conroe X-fire Esata2 and I have 4GB of ddr2 memory and i plan on putting the r7 360 in my rig I've read up and it looks like it might be possible but if I exceed I'm looking at possible blue screens but please can anyone give me any help or insight ?
 

clutchc

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The R7-360 generally needs a 450W PSU with 1 x 6 pin connector. But it really depends on the PSU's +12v rail. If you can, list the specs of the +12V rail(s) in amps and total watts for the rail(s).

Btw, you may be looking at worse than BSODs, restarts, or shutdowns if the PSU is too small and/or too cheap. It can fail catastrophically, and sometimes take out other components with it.