PSU for R9 295x2

[dantrio]

Iv noticed that you can get a xfx r9 295x2 for around £480 which seems like a pritty good deal to me considering how amazing fast this thing is. My question is will my current psu, a corsair builder series CXM 750w modular 80 plus bronze be enough to power this monster. Also how badly will my little fx 6300 overclocked to 4.3ghz bottleneck the system?

 

[TopLuca]

Well Wattage wise , the CX750M will do it for now however I just don't recommend it as the TDP for the card itself is 500W and the CX series are known to fail underload , a good Replacement for the PSU will be this : PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Pz2H3C
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Pz2H3C/by_merchant/

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £94.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Also the FX will bottleneck it severly , I recommend that you upgrade your CPU soon as well

 

[Parthu Revanth]

FX 6300 will bottle neck R9 295X2.

for R9 295X2 GPU you need 1000 watts PSU

 

[dantrio]

so would upgrading to a fx 8350 and overclocking that reduce the bottleneck enough to get really good performance out of the r9 295x2?

 

[-Lone-]

I would get a PSU with some protection, from my experience, you don't want a PSU without one, especially with this card. I bought a 1200w PSU and it was pretty defective, power surge and boom, over $1000 is blew off of my computer. So then I got the Corsair AX1500i and I had to get most of my other parts new. I would get a high wattage PSU if you're running AMD setup, I think I'm pretty close to the 1400-1500 range with the 2x 295x2s in my system. So yeah, you might want to get a PSU with protection, blew my GTX 780 from $510 to $70. Hope that helped

 

[TopLuca]

so would upgrading to a fx 8350 and overclocking that reduce the bottleneck enough to get really good performance out of the r9 295x2?

Yes indeed.

 

[i7Baby]

Try - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151110