What Power supply?

[tastatham]

Hi guys,

I am after a bit of advise regarding what power supply size my system requires because I am upgrading my graphic card to the 2GB XFX Radeon R7 260X. I would be grateful if someone could assist.

I currently have a 500 watt power supply and my system spec is;

AMD Phenom 920 X4 @ 2.8 GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
ASUS MOTHERBOARD
ATI 4850 512MB GRAPHIC CARD
2*HARD DRIVES (NON-SSD)
1*OPTICAL DRIVE
AND THE USUAL COUPLE OF FANS + LIGHT BAR AT THE BOTTOM

I appreciate my whole system would be a bottleneck for the card but I plan to upgrade the whole system in the near future.

I believe the 500 watt supply would be ok if I upgrade to the 2GB XFX Radeon R7 260X, but I just wanted reassurance from more tech savy people like yourselves.

Regards, Tom

 

[Anonymouselite5]

A 500 watt psu would be fine, but with psu's you have to consider 2 things.

The wattage
and the Amps on the 12v rail.
A 260x needs at least 19amps on the 12v rail, as long as the psu supports over 19amps then you should be fine.

What model are you thinking of?

 

[tastatham]

A 500 watt psu would be fine, but with psu's you have to consider 2 things.

The wattage
and the Amps on the 12v rail.
A 260x needs at least 19amps on the 12v rail, as long as the psu supports over 19amps then you should be fine.

What model are you thinking of?

sorry, I had the pc built my a neighbour (i'm away from home currently)

But the power supply is in fact 600w, model; KILENCE : XP600

link to model; http://www.quietpc.com/x-red-psus

Is this power supply suitable?

thanks, Tom

 

[Anonymouselite5]

Yup, that psu is adequate. On the link you gave me it says that it has 31A on the 12v rail. The 260x only needs 19A.
I personally would recommend seasonic or Corsair psu's (I have never heard of Xilence so do not know what to think of them)
but from the link it doesn't look like a bad psu.

Try
-Seasonic
-Corsair
-Silverstone
-Thermaltake.

It will most likely work just that Xilsence is not reputable.

 

[tastatham]

thankyou for your response,

My current setup is 5 years old with that spec listed, the only fault i've had was my previous 4870 1gb malfunctioned and for a short period was using the 4850 512 mb. The system has been faultless (albeit a few noisy fans) and have had it checked out to ensure the system is currently stable and everything was ok.

I will use a more reputable psu in the near future with my next build such as a corsair.

thanks, tom

 

[Anonymouselite5]

thankyou for your response,

My current setup is 5 years old with that spec listed, the only fault i've had was my previous 4870 1gb malfunctioned and for a short period was using the 4850 512 mb. The system has been faultless (albeit a few noisy fans) and have had it checked out to ensure the system is currently stable and everything was ok.

I will use a more reputable psu in the near future with my next build such as a corsair.

thanks, tom

-Good luck

The 260x is not a bad card