PSU and Crossfire

[kingloucas]

Hello guys, i want to make an update to my computer and i am going to buy a new PSU ( power supply ) ... I might want to crossfire in the future and i need a psu which will be able to do it ...

So, i would like to ask you if i will be able to crossfire with one of those two PSUs...
1) Corsair CS Series 850W Modular 80 PLUS Gold

2) EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

If i cant, i would like to advice me, which PSU should i buy ??...

My maximum budget is 140 euro but i would be very pleased if it could cost me about 100 euro
EDIT: My system has a MIDI tower
Greetings from Greece!

Thanks for your time

 

[larkspur]

We need to know the rest of your specs. What is your CPU, motherboard and the GPU that you plan to CrossFire?

 

[toyftw]

Hello guys, i want to make an update to my computer and i am going to buy a new PSU ( power supply ) ... I might want to crossfire in the future and i need a psu which will be able to do it ...

So, i would like to ask you if i will be able to crossfire with one of those two PSUs...
1) Corsair CS Series 850W Modular 80 PLUS Gold

2) EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

If i cant, i would like to advice me, which PSU should i buy ??...



My maximum budget is 140 euro but i would be very pleased if it could cost me about 100 euro
EDIT: My system has a MIDI tower
Greetings from Greece!

Thanks for your time

Hi - Need to know your system specs to properly advise.
However, between the the Corsair CSM and the EVGA G2, the EVGA G2
is far superior

 

[kingloucas]

Thank you for your extremely fast answer

My current system:
Processor AMD A8-6600K

Hard Drive 1TB SATA3 6Gbps

Optical Drive 24x DVD/CD Rewriter

Memory 16 GB

Power Supply 500W

Case CiT Vanquish with green LEDs

Motherboard Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2

GPU Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Tri-X OC

SSD Samsung EVO 840 250gb

By the way i am planning to change my motherboard and cpu

 

[larkspur]

Your motherboard only has one PCIe x16 slot. You can't run CrossFire on that motherboard. If you are talking about getting a dual-GPU single card, I wouldn't since your APU would definitely hold you back. Without making major changes, that system appears to be "maxed-out" on its gaming potential.

 

[toyftw]

Thank you for your extremely fast answer

My current system:
Processor AMD A8-6600K

Hard Drive 1TB SATA3 6Gbps

Optical Drive 24x DVD/CD Rewriter

Memory 16 GB

Power Supply 500W

Case CiT Vanquish with green LEDs

Motherboard Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2

GPU Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Tri-X OC

SSD Samsung EVO 840 250gb

By the way i am planning to change my motherboard and cpu

OK - Then you plan to CF two 280x's, the 850w G2 is the way to go. You may see somewhere
that a 750w unit will run 2 280x's, but the Sapphire tri-x tend to use more power than most other
280x's - stay with the 850w G2.

 

[kingloucas]

Thank you very much So i am going to get the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

 

[larkspur]

Thank you very much So i am going to get the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

It's not going to do you much good since your motherboard doesn't support CrossFire...

 

[toyftw]

Thank you very much So i am going to get the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

It's not going to do you much good since your motherboard doesn't support CrossFire...

OP stated above - he is upgrading/changing CPU & MOBO.

 

[toyftw]

Thank you very much So i am going to get the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

Enjoy!

 

[larkspur]

OP stated above - he is upgrading/changing CPU & MOBO.

My bad - I missed the edit.