NevoraskiA
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Three problems with this. There is a lot better things you can buy with your money than a PSU.
Firstly, your current board doesn't support Crossfire (not SLI) for another 290 and buying another board for that CPU is a bit daft unless you're getting it for super cheap. Like $20.
Second, before you do anything I'd suggest getting more RAM. 4GB simply isn't enough if you're serious about gaming. 6GB sure, but not 4. You're also not really going to get 10 years out of your current setup so a new overkill PSU isn't going to do much for you. 5 years maybe with the CPU if you start to overclock but otherwise newer GPUs will get bottlenecked soon.
Third, the Windows performance index not a goal you want to set your sights on. It's absolutely terrible and pretty dumb.
Actually my CPU is very good. at least as for right now. It's not a top top top of the line cpu, but it is a higher up in ranks cpu. And I'm not buying a new cpu at this point in time. I'm just buying a new mobo right now as my current 1 seems to be failing. I will in like 5-10 years be buying a new mobo and cpu without a doubt. As for ram... idk I run 4 right now and have no issues, but yeah I do want to upgrade it to like 8 eventually. My power supply supplies incorrect voltages... which may be the cause of my motherboard failure. I need to replace the power supply so that it doesn't damage my new board or any of the other parts in my computer. Apevia makes horrible psu's.
As for my motherboard... it does allow SLI
"Quad-GPU SLI & Quad-GPU CrossFireX Support!"
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P7P55DE_PRO/
Oh I see but the card isn't SLI... it's CrossFireX... either way I can still combine 2 as they both support CrossFireX... so same difference LOL
Now that we are done going off track here... back to the psu question at hand... 1,300 watt psu work?... or am I going to have amp issues?
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