Im not too good with power supplies (And i need to learn) But I am planning on upgrading my system to 2 GTX760s instead of one could my power supply handle that?
PC Specs:
Graphics card: Msi Twin Frozr GTX 760 (Duh)
CPU: AMD Athlon x4 750k
Motherboard: Msi (insert long name with dashes here)
PSU: Corsair CX500
Ram: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drive
OS: Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
Nope. the lowest i can think of is a 650w PSU. but i would recommend a 750w so you have headroom for overclocking or whatever you wish to add to your system for a future upgrade. single GPU setups won't use more than 500 watts
No. I would go with a 750w. I'd personally rather have a fair bit of headroom so that my power supply lasts longer
No. But a 2 gtx 760 rig with a 750k is not all that balanced of a set up anyhow.
+1 a dual gtx760 wil get bottlenecked like hell with only a Athlon 750K.
For a psu i would recommend a 750W
also Ive watched bottle necking videos and a guy had like 2 780s and an i3 and thats when he found the first sign of any real frame rate drop in games so i don't really believe in bottlenecking
So in the future i will have 400 dollars to spend I wanted to buy one of the rampage series motherboards and get another 760 but now that i think about it i need to maybe upgrade to a 750 watt power supply and get a better processor..but that surpasses 400 dollars so... would I just be better off getting a 400$ single Graphics card? (And maybe plan on upgrading the 750k because it inst very stable in my rig anyhow)
How it's the usage in gaming now CPU+GPU? If it's 100%CPU and lets say 60%GPU in games then you probably have bottleneck.
In that case upgrade the CPU first and see the performance gain if any at all. Any way you will need to upgrade the CPU at some point so if you like the performance gain live it as it is if not PSU etc.
From 400$ graphics card you will not get enough performance gain to justify the price.
Yea but since i have a socket FM2 (I think) motherboard i heard the 750k was like the best processor you can get for it but i'm not shore. I may just upgrade my CPU because i play a lot of Minecraft and that's a very CPU intincive game (Especially with all of the mod packs and other stuff)
In that case 400$ will be enough for good CPU+motherboard . Your GPU is not bad and the PSU can handle the system like it is (with the new mobo and cpu). Pull the trigger and don't look back. :)
Good luck and have fun with the build.