An important question

[Shacar2408]

Okay so i have this graphics card :
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?pid=2023&lid=1#
and this power supply:
http://www.legitreviews.com/antec-earthwatts-ea-650-platinum-650w-power-supply-review_1995
Is this okay to keep this power supply even though the R9 280x toxic requires
750 watts?

I don't want to ruin my graphics card...

Thanks

 

[MongGrel]

Unless they are doing something different from my ASUS R9 280X TOP, it doesn't require anything near 750 watts.

I do have an 850 PSU in here but it's overkill, I used to have a few others in SLI.



You could get away with a 450 and a good PSU minimum one one I'd think, depending on what you're up to.

What you have one rereading if it's 650 is overkill there too.

Are enough good ones in the 550 range this day they'd work well.

You shouldn't have a thing to worry about PSU wise.

 

[Kenmitch]

Welcome to the forum

I wouldn't worry about the power supply as it looks to be a decent one. When the manufacturers set the requirements for power supplies most of the time they overshoot the requirements....Kind of gives them the edge when a person shops by price before quality.

I once was running a r9 290 on a Rosewill Capstone 450w under full mining loads without any issues at all.

 

[Shacar2408]

I think I understand ,thank you two very much.
But if it's okay ,then why when I play, for example, AC unity on "high" graphics quality(not "very high" or "ultra") after 30 mintues the screen looks weird and sometime the game stucks for no more than 10 seconds (is that because I have i5)?
Please correct me if I made some grammer mistake
Thank you

 

[MongGrel]

I've never played AC unity myself, but that sounds more like bad programing and a memory leak myself.

The game itself might be part of your problems.

 

[tential]

I think I understand ,thank you two very much.
But if it's okay ,then why when I play, for example, AC unity on "high" graphics quality(not "very high" or "ultra") after 30 mintues the screen looks weird and sometime the game stucks for no more than 10 seconds (is that because I have i5)?
Please correct me if I made some grammer mistake
Thank you

So I'm guessing you missed all of the threads on the internet detailing the massive amounts of issues AC Unity has?

 

[Shacar2408]

So I'm guessing you missed all of the threads on the internet detailing the massive amounts of issues AC Unity has?

I guess i did