I need help, I want the AMD radeon r9 290

[JamieB321]

Hi!

I want the 290 -

But its my psu i am worried about. I got CS600M but i am worried this aint enough.

IN my PC i Have

560TI
AMD PIledriver 8320 3.5GHz turbo's to 4GHz
8GB RAM
Standard Giagbyte board.
A Samsung SSD 120Gb
A 500GB HDD
A Normal DVDRW.

WIll the psu be able to handle it?

Jamie

 

[FlyingHelmet-1373206]

Should work w/out OCing

 

[JamieB321]

Should work w/out OCing

I understand but i guess i am basically at the limit i would be able to tweak the gpu at all?

I may aswell just buy a new psu aint i.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Do you mean Corsair CX600M?

 

[JamieB321]

Do you mean Corsair CX600M?

Yes mate sorry

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It will run the card fine , but don't OC with it , because it's a budget power supply , not meant for overclocking.

 

[Danra]

I benchmarked my Intel i5 3570K @ 4.6GHz CPU and R9 290 with a memory and GPU overclock of 17% and was drawing about 450 watts peak from my entire computer during benchmarks.

You have a different CPU and I did not do any homework on how many watts your CPU uses compared to mine.

The bottom line is you should be fine with your power supply while gaming, my benchmarking is harder on the CPU and GPU than gaming.

I do suggest that you do not overclock the R9 290, you can manually set the GPU temperature ceiling at 84 degrees [I believe it is safer than the advertised 95 degrees C] and increase fan speed to max out at 38 degrees higher than your room temp, that would roughly yield around 80% if the room temp was about 71 degrees F [~ 22 degrees C]. My fan has never gone that high.

Unfortunately I forgot to take a screen shot of the max fan speed ... sorry. I could hear the fan ramp up during overclocking, however, it was acceptable regarding noise.

It is very important to have the room temperature around 73 degrees or lower and very good case airflow. This combination keeps the fan noise down because it does not need to spin as fast to keep the GPU and other components cool.