What's the best gpu I could get for this setup..

[Defy Belief]

So I'm *kinda* psu limited, I have a coolermaster silent pro 500w.

Spec:

http://www.coolermaster.com/service/support/model/RS-500-AMBA-D3/

So it's for my living room, a sorta htpc which has just gradually grown into making it as fast as possible for abit of living room gaming on the sofa with a controller.

So, what I'll be having is likely a Maximus Gene V mATX board or a Sniper, 3570k with a clock around 4.3ghz or so. Will only have an SSD for drives, no optical bays. 8GB of ram.

Do you think I could stretch to a 7950? Baring in mind I'd want to put a little OC on this too, think I may be asking abit too much so what's likely to be the best gpu I could run with not too much strain on the psu?

EDIT presuming the newer cards are even more efficient so let me know I'm a little out of the loop..

 

[Freddie1980]

You could put a 780ti in there and be fine, cooling and ventilation is your problem (going by most tradtional htpc cases).
What sort of games do you see yourself playing in the living room? Most the games I play are are racing and sports sims which don't require anything more then a HD5770. With this in mind Nvidia's new 750 might be worth considering. Of course if you plan to go all out with 'Call of genric Battlefield XXVI' 1080p highest details no compromises then yes will you need to go with a 7950 level card just bear mind the case its going in and the thermals. PSU is fine.

 

[pastymuncher]

With only 34A/408w on the 12v rails that's a weak psu for a 500w unit. The rest of the power is on the minor rails where it's not really needed. I wouldn't stick anything power hungry in there. I have made my pc pull 521w from the wall by running Furmark and linx together, 432w just from running Furmark, 267w just by running linx. Normal gaming is anything between 350-480w (at the wall, so the psu will be delivering a bit less to the pc) depending on the game.

 

[Defy Belief]

It's all going in a Lian-Li v-300 but I've made custom side panels and on the side with the gpu it will have a 80mm fan at the front of the case and then two black apache 120mm fans firing straight at the gpu so it will be nice and cool.

It probably won't be the most demanding games but who knows, could be bf4 story etc.

That doesn't look like that many watts pulled concidering the spec, I would never be benching or stress testing, it is just the 12v rail that is a slight concern.