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Locknuts on 08 March 2014
Slimebeast said:
Locknuts said:
Corsair HX series and above are the best quality. The others I'm not so sure about. It would be best to go modular anyway for your sanity's sake.

So a Corsair CX 750M, you think is too bad quality?

WHat's the difference really? Is the quality of components, but what does that mean in practice? Longer life?

What do you mean "best to go modular anyway". Modular with what? RAM memory?

I just looked up a review of the little brother of your PSU. It actually looks really good for the money.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/corsair_cx600m_psu_review,1.html

I believe the CX series only come with 2 year warranties whereas the HX series (the only ones I use) come with 5 year warranties. So yeah, the components are better. If you're looking to go crossfire in future with the 290s in I would definitely recommend a HX series or above as they will defintely deliver the wattage promised.

Also, I just realised that the 'M' in CX 750M stands for modular. That's what I was referring to. You don't to be fiddling around with any cables you don't need.

Overall I would say the PSU looks good for 1 R9 290, but 2 might be pushing it. I personally wouldn't risk almost $1000 worth of GPUs on anything less than a HX series, but it's your call.



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kirby007 on 08 March 2014

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DucksUnlimited on 08 March 2014
Soleron said:
DucksUnlimited said:
BenVTrigger said:
Why on Earth would you ever get an AMD CPU over an Intel? That makes no sense.

besides that everything looks solid.

Probably because they're generally more cost efficient.

Not any more. The only reason to buy AMD right now is that is that you like them.

Maybe not for their higher end stuff, but their mid range CPU's definitely give you more bang for your buck, unless something drastic has changed in the last few months



Vasto on 08 March 2014
DucksUnlimited said:
Soleron said:
DucksUnlimited said:
BenVTrigger said:
Why on Earth would you ever get an AMD CPU over an Intel? That makes no sense.

besides that everything looks solid.

Probably because they're generally more cost efficient.

Not any more. The only reason to buy AMD right now is that is that you like them.

Maybe not for their higher end stuff, but their mid range CPU's definitely give you more bang for your buck, unless something drastic has changed in the last few months

 

 

Nonthing has changed and thats why AMD is the better choice.



bigjon on 08 March 2014
Slimebeast said:
BenVTrigger said:
Why on Earth would you ever get an AMD CPU over an Intel? That makes no sense.

besides that everything looks solid.

Yes it does if you're and AMD fan like me.

there was a day that it was viable to be a AMD fanboy. These days there is a VERY narrow price point the AMD is even competitive in. It is the 130 dollar area, you can get a very good overclockable AMD chip at that price and intel usually just offers the i3 locked version of their chips.



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Viper1 on 08 March 2014
vivster said:

It's the first time I heard anyone saying Corsair, PSU and best in the same sentence. BeQuiet really is the norm for most gaming PCs I know and helped build.

I'm very surprised you've never heard of Corsair and best PSU in the same sentence before.  Granted, it depends on the OEM of the Corsair model.

Seasonic is the best.  BeQuiet's best PSU's are manufactured by Seasonic.  BeQuiet doesn't do any of the actual production of their PSU's.  They usually outsource it to FSP (Fortron Source Power) who are in the upper mid range of OEM's.  Corsair's best are also produced by Seasonic.  Hence why it's not undheard of to hear Corsair and best in the same sentence.  Because it's likely a Seasonic model they are actually talking about (though may not know it).

Unfortunately the Corsair 750CX is built by Channel Well.  They tend to be mid range.



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lucidium on 08 March 2014

To play devils advocate, despite what most will tell you, CPU isn't going to matter that much in terms of frame rates so long as its fairly recent, has 3 or more cores and over 2.6ghz.

If you're in to encoding video, music, synthetic processes and cad, then yeah it will matter, but just gaming? Not really.



Vasto on 08 March 2014
lucidium said:
To play devils advocate, despite what most will tell you, CPU isn't going to matter that much in terms of frame rates so long as its fairly recent, has 3 or more cores and over 2.6ghz.

If you're in to encoding video, music, synthetic processes and cad, then yeah it will matter, but just gaming? Not really.

 

Thats why it does not make sense to spend high prices for cpus to put in gaming pcs. I had a $100 AMD FX 4300 and overclocked it from 3.6 to 4.4 easy. Had no problems at all playing games like Guild Wars 2, Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3.



lucidium on 09 March 2014

There are some exceptions with CPU heavy games of course, but generally speaking, changing to a higher end cpu makes much less difference on your framerates overall then spending the same money on a better gpu.



Slimebeast on 09 March 2014
Locknuts said:
Slimebeast said:
Locknuts said:
Corsair HX series and above are the best quality. The others I'm not so sure about. It would be best to go modular anyway for your sanity's sake.

So a Corsair CX 750M, you think is too bad quality?

WHat's the difference really? Is the quality of components, but what does that mean in practice? Longer life?

What do you mean "best to go modular anyway". Modular with what? RAM memory?

I just looked up a review of the little brother of your PSU. It actually looks really good for the money.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/corsair_cx600m_psu_review,1.html

I believe the CX series only come with 2 year warranties whereas the HX series (the only ones I use) come with 5 year warranties. So yeah, the components are better. If you're looking to go crossfire in future with the 290s in I would definitely recommend a HX series or above as they will defintely deliver the wattage promised.

Also, I just realised that the 'M' in CX 750M stands for modular. That's what I was referring to. You don't to be fiddling around with any cables you don't need.

Overall I would say the PSU looks good for 1 R9 290, but 2 might be pushing it. I personally wouldn't risk almost $1000 worth of GPUs on anything less than a HX series, but it's your call.

Cool. I didn't know about the modular PSU stuff. I like convenient and easy to use parts. So the PSU I listed is modular?

Corsair CX 750M, 750W PSU

ATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus Bronze, Modular. 4x 6+2pin PCIe, 8x SATA, 6x Molex

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I will take the chance and hope it will be able to run 2 R9 290s for many years. I don't care about guarantees since I never try to bring in parts that break, I just buy new stuff.