Chox1988
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This is what made me think that 760w would be plenty, I got a 750w XFX for my system with the plan to upgrade to SLI in the future. Total system load looks like its going to be less than 600W so will have a spare 150w kicking about if needed.
Are i7 chips and 7970 that much more power hungry!?!
If so, there goes my plans for a mobo/cpu upgrade at the same time
like i say it depends what card and how heavy an overclock you have, i wouldnt dream of running the r290 in crossfire overclocked, with an overclocked cpu for example, that would take you up to the line.
with an overclock i wouldnt be surprised if the 7970 were pulling 300 watts.
Others might, but I wouldnt do it, take from that what you will