7950 on Corsair CX 500w

[AirForceBrat]

I'm 14 years old and I've been saving money for a build, I give the money to my brother who's in college, and he buys me the parts online. I was orginally going to buy the sapphire xt for $240 I think, so I gave my brother the money and he was feeling nice and he instead bought me a sapphire 7950 and said I didn't need to pay him back the difference.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202006

I'm happy about it, but the problem is I already bought the PSU which is a semi modular corsair 500w.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139050

I was planning on ocing the 7950 and ocing my 3570k to atleast 4.5ghz if I can, but idk if my 500w can handle it. I could try and buy this 650w rosewill hive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182132


but if I do that I won't have enough for the bitfenix prodigy. It came back in stock like 1-2 days ago on newegg and the orange one is already out of stock, so the white one will probably be going out of stock pretty fast. I won't be able to get anymore money for like 2 weeks.

 

[darkspartenwarrior]

It's fine, 500W is fine.

 

[AirForceBrat]

Thanks, anyone else?

 

[cuecuemore]

You'll be just fine.

 

[DarkSable]

I'd want a 550w PSU just to be safe, but the 500w will be fine before overclocking. (no promises on afterwords, but the 7950 draws less power than a 7870xt anyways.)

That being said, (And I'm saying this as an owner of a prodigy, who loves his case to death), be careful about how long your power supply is. I had to return my 650w corsair unit in favor of a 550w seasonic, because the larger power supply was too long.

 

[JJ1217]

Should be fine, wouldn't recommend a very high oc on the CPU or GPU. Overclocking to around 1100 on the 7950 and around 4.3 GHZ on the CPU should be fine. Remember you don't really want to have the PSU pushing at 100% capacity all the time, this will only decrease the lifetime of the PSU.

 

[cuecuemore]

You actually have enough head room to OC both the GPU and CPU as far as they'll go on that PSU.

 

[AirForceBrat]

I see, thanks everyone. I'll stick with the 500w and OC a bit. And if I want to go higher I'll just save up for another psu.