SLI Graphics cards - Do I have a big enough PSU?

[feastfox]

So, I am going to be purchasing two MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition graphics card's and I just want to be sure that a 700W PSU is going to be good enough to run both those. I suppose you need my specs.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 MB
MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 660Ti 3Gb
2x8GB sticks corsair vengeance RAM
2x2gb random sticks I had laying around
1x1tb seagate hdd
1x2tb seagate hdd
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler System
Cooler master 700W psu

Thanks

 

[burdenbound]

It should be...on another note though, you really should upgrade that CPU to power those cards. You won't even be able to take full advantage of one with the 965.

 

[feastfox]

What would your recommendation be?

 

[Raiin]

those cards will be held back by the Phenom II, the 965 holds back 1 card so 2 is even worse, if you dont want to waste to much money you can always get a 8310 they go for as low as 100$ since they dont come with a stock heatsink
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9494388

 

[burdenbound]

Your motherboard supports the 8350, this would be your best option if you want to save some money but ideally I would choose a new intel i5 unlocked version to go with SLI 970s.

 

[feastfox]

I would love to go intel but I really dont want to mess with the HDD/re installation of windows and data loss. I just started school so its not the best idea at the moment.

 

[feastfox]

Oh and by the way, here are the cards I am going to SLI.

http://us.msi.com/product/vga/GTX-970-GAMING-4G-Golden-Edition.html#hero-overview

 

[06yfz450ridr]

I would love to go intel but I really dont want to mess with the HDD/re installation of windows and data loss. I just started school so its not the best idea at the moment.

no need to reload when swapping mobos etc you will need to re active your windows and downlaod all your chipset drivers etc though.

ive swapped my amd systems drive into an intel system and it functions perfectly.

i do agree you need a better cpu. even my cpu hold back my cards in certain games