GTX 780 w/ 500W PSU

[necrogenikz]

Few questions: I'm interested in buying a used ASUS GTX 780 DirectCU II OC for around $170. Is this worth it? I've heard of Nvidia gimping their older cards.

Second, if I purchase the GTX 780 will a Corsair CX500 (500w 80+ bronze) be able to power this card?

System Specs:

CPU: A10-5800K APU Series (95W)
Mobo: ASRock FM2a75 Pro 4
Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

[CTurbo]

$170 is a decent price for a 780, but your psu is not good enough to run it and your A10 would bottleneck it too much.

 

[spat55]

I'd say that the APU will bottleneck too much and you'd struggle to power it with that PSU. You'd be best of getting something newer that uses less power, something like a GTX 950 or RX 470 would be perfect as you wouldn't need to upgrade the PSU and the APU wouldn't bottleneck it too much.

 

[necrogenikz]

Thanks for the replies. I also figured my CPU would be a bottleneck but I figured that it would still run better than a 950. Would this assumption be correct? Sadly, in canadian dollars a GTX 950 is still over $200+ and a RX 470 2gb/4gb ranges from $270-300 + taxes. I'm just thinking of future upgrades and buying a new cpu/mobo system is huge for a broke college student.

 

[spat55]

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You could always get this, slightly cheaper and won't be bottlenecked. You'll get some warranty with this too, I'd recommend the GTX 780ti over it of course but you need a better PSU to run it and preferably a better CPU, at least here you won't have to worry about any issues and save some money.

If you game at 1080p you should get some decent frames with that setup.