Enough Power for Graphics Card and components with Room to upgrade?

[Pitkid777]

Looking to make sure I have enough power for a computer build and especially my graphics card, with room to expand later (I plan on adding 2-3 more hard drives.)Computer Build. This is meant to be a decent level gaming computer.

 

[COLGeek]

Your selected 500w PSU is fine for what you have now. However, you would need a stronger one if you decided to go with a Crossfire configuration or any heavy overclocking.

However, you have a decent rig specced out. The additional HDDs will not be an issue power-wise.

 

[Jack Revenant]

Looking to make sure I have enough power for a computer build and especially my graphics card, with room to expand later (I plan on adding 2-3 more hard drives.)Computer Build. This is meant to be a decent level gaming computer.

Your PSU should be fine. However, if you're not going to be doing anything terribly RAM-intensive, you might consider dropping 8 GB, going up to 1600 for the remaining 8 GB, and getting a Sapphire HD 7870 XT for what you have left over.

 

[coozie7]

^+1.

 

[Pitkid777]

Looking to make sure I have enough power for a computer build and especially my graphics card, with room to expand later (I plan on adding 2-3 more hard drives.)Computer Build. This is meant to be a decent level gaming computer.

Your PSU should be fine. However, if you're not going to be doing anything terribly RAM-intensive, you might consider dropping 8 GB, going up to 1600 for the remaining 8 GB, and getting a Sapphire HD 7870 XT for what you have left over.

I plan on doing many RAM intensive things. Mostly running almost all my games at the same time, as well as recording and editing software.

 

[Jack Revenant]

Looking to make sure I have enough power for a computer build and especially my graphics card, with room to expand later (I plan on adding 2-3 more hard drives.)Computer Build. This is meant to be a decent level gaming computer.

Your PSU should be fine. However, if you're not going to be doing anything terribly RAM-intensive, you might consider dropping 8 GB, going up to 1600 for the remaining 8 GB, and getting a Sapphire HD 7870 XT for what you have left over.

I plan on doing many RAM intensive things. Mostly running almost all my games at the same time, as well as recording and editing software.

I'm not sure that graphics card, or any graphics card really, can support running a large number of games on max settings simultaneously. To be honest, I really have no idea why you would choose to do that.

 

[Pitkid777]

Looking to make sure I have enough power for a computer build and especially my graphics card, with room to expand later (I plan on adding 2-3 more hard drives.)Computer Build. This is meant to be a decent level gaming computer.

Your PSU should be fine. However, if you're not going to be doing anything terribly RAM-intensive, you might consider dropping 8 GB, going up to 1600 for the remaining 8 GB, and getting a Sapphire HD 7870 XT for what you have left over.

I plan on doing many RAM intensive things. Mostly running almost all my games at the same time, as well as recording and editing software.

I'm not sure that graphics card, or any graphics card really, can support running a large number of games on max settings simultaneously. To be honest, I really have no idea why you would choose to do that.

I would love to see if a GTX Titan could.

 

[RobCrezz]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

 

[Pitkid777]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

 

[RobCrezz]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

 

[Jack Revenant]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

 

[Pitkid777]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

AMD is a requirement for me.

 

[Jack Revenant]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

AMD is a requirement for me.

Is there an AMD-specific application which you use, or is it brand loyalty? If it's the former, we may be able to find an alternative.

 

[Pitkid777]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

AMD is a requirement for me.

Is there an AMD-specific application which you use, or is it brand loyalty? If it's the former, we may be able to find an alternative.

Motherboard is AM3+ Socket.

 

[Jack Revenant]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

AMD is a requirement for me.

Is there an AMD-specific application which you use, or is it brand loyalty? If it's the former, we may be able to find an alternative.

Motherboard is AM3+ Socket.

You've already bought the motherboard? Well, that settles that, I suppose. If you can afford to upgrade your CPU to the 8350 without compromising in other places, I would do it. However, GPU > CPU for gaming computers, so you shouldn't sacrifice graphical power for processing power, if it comes down to it.

 

[Pitkid777]

Maybe spend extra on the cpu and get a FX 8350? Isnt that cpu a bit weak?

It doesn't seem to be. I would love to upgrade without having to change out everything in my build.

Everything in your build supports the 8350 as far as I can see and its a much better CPU I think. Its the best AMD offer in the desktop market at the moment.

Certainly true, but if he's willing to drop that much on a CPU, he could get an i5-3350P, which is ranked one tier above the 8350. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

AMD is a requirement for me.

Is there an AMD-specific application which you use, or is it brand loyalty? If it's the former, we may be able to find an alternative.

Motherboard is AM3+ Socket.

You've already bought the motherboard? Well, that settles that, I suppose. If you can afford to upgrade your CPU to the 8350 without compromising in other places, I would do it. However, GPU > CPU for gaming computers, so you shouldn't sacrifice graphical power for processing power, if it comes down to it.

I'm well aware. And no I haven't bought it yet. I have an Intel currently and it gives me plenty of trouble. So I'm switching to AMD. Also. If I have spare cash I'm going to dump it into upgrading the GPU. Need to figure out what I could go to.