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500 watt PSU should be fine if it's a half decent brand.
Friend of mine with overclocked i7 + 32 gig RAM + R9 290X + 10 mechanical HDDs + multiple fans still pulls less than 400 watts at the power socket. At 100% CPU load and 100% GPU load, he's pulling ~390-395 watts from the wall socket. So the PSU is providing less than that to the computer components.
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SB
That's probably an average. There should be power spikes in that setup that could go well over 500W, and for some brands that's enough to blow up a 500W PSU.