Is it a good time to buy R9 290 NOW ?

[xthetenth]

That's a lot of power supply getting recommended for just one card.

 

[RussianSensation]

It's not about budget... I just thought that my 700w ocz can handle 290/290x...

Have you thought about just getting dual Gigabyte 970s and then re-evaluating the market in 6-12 months?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...685&cm_re=gigabyte_970-_-14-125-685-_-Product

You can sell one of those Witcher 3 coupons and overall those 2 cards won't cost you much more than 290s but you won't need to get a new PSU.

 

[Temuka]

Have you thought about just getting dual Gigabyte 970s and then re-evaluating the market in 6-12 months?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...685&cm_re=gigabyte_970-_-14-125-685-_-Product

You can sell one of those Witcher 3 coupons and overall those 2 cards won't cost you much more than 290s but you won't need to get a new PSU.

My plan is to get on sale tri-x 290/290X and play on full hd until I upgrade to 4k.

Will my psu be efficient for that card? Previous user wrote that it isn't good in tests This is my Psu:


http://www.amazon.com/FirePower-ModXStream-Semi-Modular-Performance-formerly/dp/B001IZ7MHU help me please to decide

P.s I calculated on this site and recommended minimum psu for my sistem (including r9 290) is 450w...

http://powersupplycalculator.net/

Maybe me 700w ocz will be enough? If not I have to upgrade..

 

[RussianSensation]

My plan is to get on sale tri-x 290/290X and play on full hd until I upgrade to 4k.

Will my psu be efficient for that card? .

Are you sure they weren't discussing R9 290/290X cross-fire? A single card on a 700W should be a piece of cake.

You can run an R9 290X and an i7 on a 550W PSU. I've ran my i7 860 @ 4.0ghz + HD7970 @ 1.175Ghz on a 520W.

 

[Temuka]

Are you sure they weren't discussing R9 290/290X cross-fire? A single card on a 700W should be a piece of cake.

You can run an R9 290X and an i7 on a 550W PSU. I've ran my i7 860 @ 4.0ghz + HD7970 @ 1.175Ghz on a 520W.

Here,look:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2008/11/12/ocz_700w_modxstream_pro_power_supply/

 

[RussianSensation]

Here,look:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2008/11/12/ocz_700w_modxstream_pro_power_supply/

What are you worried about?

Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz (this CPU uses > 150W on its own)
R9 290 Sapphire Tri-X
< 385W

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7601/sapphire-radeon-r9-290-review-our-first-custom-cooled-290/4

The PSU handled 512W and an i7 6-core system OC + R9 290 OC use less than 400W.

 

[iiiankiii]

My plan is to get on sale tri-x 290/290X and play on full hd until I upgrade to 4k.

Will my psu be efficient for that card? Previous user wrote that it isn't good in tests This is my Psu:


http://www.amazon.com/FirePower-ModXStream-Semi-Modular-Performance-formerly/dp/B001IZ7MHU help me please to decide

P.s I calculated on this site and recommended minimum psu for my sistem (including r9 290) is 450w...

http://powersupplycalculator.net/

Maybe me 700w ocz will be enough? If not I have to upgrade..

You're good. I ran an r9-290x with an oc i7-3770k with a corsair 430w PSU. It was pulling around 360w at the wall. Keep in mind that the power at the wall is higher than the actual power of the system due to the inefficiency of the PSU. So I was pulling around 300w at the system.

 

[xthetenth]

Are you sure they weren't discussing R9 290/290X cross-fire?

They were.