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Another leak of the 390X? 

can but very troublesome since you need to power the gpu's psu first with another added switch or pin and then only can turn on the other psu...

Quality PSU can put out the rated wattage without regard to which rail.
For example my Seasonic X-850 can put out 850 watts just on the 12V rails. 150W PSU with 78% efficiency doesn't mean it can only put out 117W power, but means they can put out 150W to computer's components but pulls 192W from the wall socket.
If I have to choose better run one PSU only. Good 450-550W PSU is cheap now.

Cheap PSU are rated differently and usually combined wattage of 3.3V, 5V and 12V. The 12 V rails is probably alot less wattage than rated.

It's better to get higher wattage PSU because PSU degrades over time. Also the components that are rated as 30W, 50W is the average power consumption, the power consumption is actually goes up and down very fast in miliseconds. The peak power usage may go over the amount and the PSU may not be able to handle it.
I faced the same problem when I was using my old Cooler Master Extreme 2 625, it can only supply ATX rated power until 480W, and after 1 year of usage my computer always crashes even when the GPU was idling. Then I switched to Seasonic and very stable now.
I put the Cooler Master PSU on AMD II X4 635 + HD5830 and it's running fine.

Thanks for your precious opinion, if 290X against GTX 970, will 290X be a better buy?

U will buy 290X lightning? I'm considering that too...although not excel in power efficiency, it perform well and the price are good enough. Just curious that my 620W PSU can run this beast, if not then I may need to pay for another PSU or just grab GTXes.

I think 290X will most probably been updated to run DirectX 12 in future. plus, All of the game currently will backward compatible with DX 9 and i think it will be the case to DX 11. plus there will be a few years before the game designing firm completely ditch DX 11

290x will support DX12 just maybe not fully support it.

Actually i lied, according to AMD all GCN card will support DX12.

and according to Microsoft most modern GPU will support DX12.
Sauce: Don't panic! DirectX12 won't require a new graphics card after all
By your logic, people should have not bought Nvidia Keplers because it didn't fully support DX11.1.  Where is your source btw?

my amateur thinking is the Direct X thing are software, Hardware are not gonna do much with DirectX support, just the chip maker hence AMD or Nvidia decide which card shell be supported.

Actually i lied, according to AMD all GCN card will support DX12.

and according to Microsoft most modern GPU will support DX12.
Sauce: Don't panic! DirectX12 won't require a new graphics card after all
By your logic, people should have not bought Nvidia Keplers because it didn't fully support DX11.1.  Where is your source btw?

Totally expected since Microsoft haven't finalize DX12. There's no card in the market right now that is "fully" support DX12.

frankly, low TDP hardware works best if
1. youre building mITX system where cooling is a huge concern
2. you actually cared of the savings per year from using less power hardware
3. youre on a mobile device

but were on a desktop, power consumption shouldnt affect us that much (unless youre extremely sensitive to minor changes in electric bills)
IMHO, impossible. im on a GTX780 that was supposedly overkill for 1080p. yet im getting fluctuating frames on games that i should breeze through (no, im not even CPU bottlenecked yet)

the only way for you to confirm a solid 60FPS, is to lower graphical details. dont even think of touching AA settings unless you want to see plummeting frames whenever a graphical intensive scene appears

and dont be too fussed on 290X's power requirements. i OCed my GTX780 quite high even with a 650W and my PSU isnt even struggling to juice it up. you rarely see GPU throttled by lack of power unless you deliberately feed it lack of power

Oh,so you are aaying,the higher the TDP,the noisier it gets?That is wrong..

It depends on the fans being used.If the fans are crap,yes,noisy as heck. Take the 290 Vapor-X for example,it's the quietest 290 out there.

Too close to a 290X Lightning... RM1239 only...

Got any source to this? So far I only seem to find the 1080MHz version in their website.

He's right, got 2 version.

1. MSI R9 290X Lightning LE
2. MSI R9 290X Lightning

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