Power Supply for GTX 770 & FX-6300 / 8350

gameboy1998

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Hi,

Im planning my current build and this is what it looks like so far:

AMD FX-6300 / 8320
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Cooler
Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX Motherboard
Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400Mhz
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Asus Nvidia GTX 770 2GB
Cooler Master K380 Cabinet
LG DVD/CD Writer

I will decide on the CPU based upon my budget.

I posted a thread earlier asking the required wattage for dual GTX 770s but this is for a single GTX 770 with a different motherboard.
 
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My point wasn't to persuade you either direction it was more of an attempt to say you can't have any idea what the computer world will look like in 2 or 3 years, they may have LSD (liquid state drives, not the drug) that are 200 million times faster than SSD by then or something else crazy, You can only look at what to upgrade to maybe 2 or 3 months ahead, any further forward than that and you're kidding yourself thinking what is relevant today will still be so in a few months.
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $82.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-19 09:50 EST-0500)


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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK III 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $79.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-19 09:51 EST-0500)


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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $59.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-19 09:56 EST-0500)
 
Little out of topic but a little help guys. I can either get upgrade option to dual 770s with Asrock 970 Extreme4 and Corsair TX750 V2 PSU or get a 64GB SSD for the OS, which one is recommended.

BTW: I'm already using the WD Blue in another my current rig with Windows 8.1 64Bit
 
If there is any misconception I will not upgrade to dual 770s now but in the future maybe in the next 2-3 years. I may also upgrade to a SSD in 2-3. Also is it worth to run SLI or upgrade to a new GPU in the future and how would a cheap 100$ motherboard like mine will handle Dual Asus GTX 770 OCed
 
board should be fine, as for what to do about your 770 in the future we have no idea what will exist 2 or 3 years from now, 2 770s might be really slow, or really awesome depends on how things progress I think things are about to speed up again at least on the GPU side since 4k resolution is likely going to show up... it might not make it as common place in 2 or 3 years however, it will be impossible to tell as of today.
 
I cannot afford a 990FX Board.

From what Supahos has told I'm thinking that I would be better off with a SSD. I will be playing with a 60Hz monitor so frame rates above 60 won't matter and I'm OK with turning down setting to Medium or even Low if required.
 


My point wasn't to persuade you either direction it was more of an attempt to say you can't have any idea what the computer world will look like in 2 or 3 years, they may have LSD (liquid state drives, not the drug) that are 200 million times faster than SSD by then or something else crazy, You can only look at what to upgrade to maybe 2 or 3 months ahead, any further forward than that and you're kidding yourself thinking what is relevant today will still be so in a few months.
 
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