Hello I'm building a computer and I wanted to know, what is the difference in these two power supplies, other than the price. Witch one should I get? If PS1 is not good, anyone know of a better cheap one? kinda need to save money for this build :P.
PS1: http://pcpartpicker....supply-ps550abk
PS2: http://pcpartpicker....er-supply-cx500
The difference between these two power supplies is that they output watts.
The first one only outputs 550 watts.
The second only outputs 500 watts.
Depending on what type of computer you will be building like a gaming computer. It requires more power.
The difference between these two power supplies is that they output watts.
The first one only outputs 550 watts.
The second only outputs 500 watts.
Depending on what type of computer you will be building like a gaming computer. It requires more power.
Yes I know this, I need 390 watts to power the computer I'm building.
Yes I know this, I need 390 watts to power the computer I'm building.
Hmm 390 seems a bit low, is this going to be a gaming computer? Quite frankly, for gaming or high performance pc it's not cost effective to build machines that range less than $1200 below that the cost effectiveness is usually matched easily by brand named companies. Not in all cases obviously.
Out of curiosity would you mind posting the rest of the build you're planning? Since, unless I can see the whole build I will only assume you should use a 700w power supply to allow for maximum upgrade-ability.
Hmm 390 seems a bit low, is this going to be a gaming computer? Quite frankly, for gaming or high performance pc it's not cost effective to build machines that range less than $1200 below that the cost effectiveness is usually matched easily by brand named companies. Not in all cases obviously.
Out of curiosity would you mind posting the rest of the build you're planning? Since, unless I can see the whole build I will only assume you should use a 700w power supply to allow for maximum upgrade-ability.
Also feel free to give me some suggestions on my build.
Oh yeah, that system could easily pull 500w during a gaming session then you'd start experiencing some performance issues. I highly suggest aiming for a 700-750w power supply. You don't NEED it but with the system your trying to build you'll find less issues in the long run. As a side note in-case you didn't know getting a higher rated power supply doesn't mean it uses that extra wattage it just means it's available. Of course if you don't use that extra supply then you're kinda wasting money, but it does allow for you to perhaps get a second graphics card without having to upgrade the power supply as well. Personally, I got an 850w for both my wife's and my desktops to allow for upgrading, since then I got my wife a second graphics card and will be upgrading my older one to a dual set up soon and very glad I don't have to get a new power supply as well.
As for suggestions for your build, I haven't checked to see if there are compatibility issues between any of your parts but I did notice that you're using a fairly large main drive (the 1TB 7200RPM), it might be a good idea to have a second drive that is smaller such as a SSD (solid state drive) to put your OS and preferred games on or perhaps get a second 1TB drive and set them up in raid to increase performance. IF that's what you're looking to accomplish. If not your build look fairly decent except maybe the power supply needing a bit of a boost. I'm not sure how much of a memory hog Windows 8 is but I found that Windows 7 was initially a bit of a memory hog when i got it before tweaking. So you may or may not want more ram, 8GB should be sufficient for pretty much anything and you can always get more later if you need to. Quite frankly if I didn't do video and graphics work I probably wouldn't need the extra ram I got (16GB).
Hmm 390 seems a bit low, is this going to be a gaming computer? Quite frankly, for gaming or high performance pc it's not cost effective to build machines that range less than $1200 below that the cost effectiveness is usually matched easily by brand named companies. Not in all cases obviously.
Out of curiosity would you mind posting the rest of the build you're planning? Since, unless I can see the whole build I will only assume you should use a 700w power supply to allow for maximum upgrade-ability.
I would have to disagree with you there. Tom's Hardware regularly posts sub 600 builds that have more than acceptable benchmarks for a lot of popular games even in Ultra settings.
Kusinagii mentioned about a raided HDD setup or an SDD to increase performance. I personally would never trust two hdd's in raid 0 to increase performance, I would only setup a raid between two hdd's to set a backup (which does not increase performance), because hdd's tend to break at bad times. SDD is one of the best ways to increase your computers speed and I can highly recommend getting one, but if it doesn't fit into your budget, it's fine, buy one another time then.
To tell the truth I always think of raid 1 or raid 1+0(or 0+1 there are more but usually too complex to set up for the average user), I've never been a fan of raid 0, but of course raid 1+0 is a bit costly at a minimum at usually 4 drives not to mention you lose a lot of storage capacity in return for performance. I also agree that an SSD is one of the best ways to increase performance, but due to the fact that you can buy two or in some cases four 250GB HDD's, quite often, at a lower price than one 250 GB SSD. And for a game like minecraft where constant access of the hard drive is prominent in the game's design, raid 1 or raid 1+0 is close and (depending on the speed of the HDDs) sometimes better than SSD performance. Of course if you were to raid 1(+0) some SSD's @_@ (like 40 of them *drools*) ....
I would have to disagree with you there. Tom's Hardware regularly posts sub 600 builds that have more than acceptable benchmarks for a lot of popular games even in Ultra settings.
Thanks for pointing out Tom's Hardware, I didn't know of it until now. I need to get up to date on things again.
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PS1: http://pcpartpicker....supply-ps550abk
PS2: http://pcpartpicker....er-supply-cx500
The first one only outputs 550 watts.
The second only outputs 500 watts.
Depending on what type of computer you will be building like a gaming computer. It requires more power.
Yes I know this, I need 390 watts to power the computer I'm building.
Hmm 390 seems a bit low, is this going to be a gaming computer? Quite frankly, for gaming or high performance pc it's not cost effective to build machines that range less than $1200 below that the cost effectiveness is usually matched easily by brand named companies. Not in all cases obviously.
Out of curiosity would you mind posting the rest of the build you're planning? Since, unless I can see the whole build I will only assume you should use a 700w power supply to allow for maximum upgrade-ability.
Here is the build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Q5Sw
Also feel free to give me some suggestions on my build.
Oh yeah, that system could easily pull 500w during a gaming session then you'd start experiencing some performance issues. I highly suggest aiming for a 700-750w power supply. You don't NEED it but with the system your trying to build you'll find less issues in the long run. As a side note in-case you didn't know getting a higher rated power supply doesn't mean it uses that extra wattage it just means it's available. Of course if you don't use that extra supply then you're kinda wasting money, but it does allow for you to perhaps get a second graphics card without having to upgrade the power supply as well. Personally, I got an 850w for both my wife's and my desktops to allow for upgrading, since then I got my wife a second graphics card and will be upgrading my older one to a dual set up soon and very glad I don't have to get a new power supply as well.
As for suggestions for your build, I haven't checked to see if there are compatibility issues between any of your parts but I did notice that you're using a fairly large main drive (the 1TB 7200RPM), it might be a good idea to have a second drive that is smaller such as a SSD (solid state drive) to put your OS and preferred games on or perhaps get a second 1TB drive and set them up in raid to increase performance. IF that's what you're looking to accomplish. If not your build look fairly decent except maybe the power supply needing a bit of a boost. I'm not sure how much of a memory hog Windows 8 is but I found that Windows 7 was initially a bit of a memory hog when i got it before tweaking. So you may or may not want more ram, 8GB should be sufficient for pretty much anything and you can always get more later if you need to. Quite frankly if I didn't do video and graphics work I probably wouldn't need the extra ram I got (16GB).
I would have to disagree with you there. Tom's Hardware regularly posts sub 600 builds that have more than acceptable benchmarks for a lot of popular games even in Ultra settings.
To tell the truth I always think of raid 1 or raid 1+0(or 0+1 there are more but usually too complex to set up for the average user), I've never been a fan of raid 0, but of course raid 1+0 is a bit costly at a minimum at usually 4 drives not to mention you lose a lot of storage capacity in return for performance. I also agree that an SSD is one of the best ways to increase performance, but due to the fact that you can buy two or in some cases four 250GB HDD's, quite often, at a lower price than one 250 GB SSD. And for a game like minecraft where constant access of the hard drive is prominent in the game's design, raid 1 or raid 1+0 is close and (depending on the speed of the HDDs) sometimes better than SSD performance. Of course if you were to raid 1(+0) some SSD's @_@ (like 40 of them *drools*) ....
Thanks for pointing out Tom's Hardware, I didn't know of it until now. I need to get up to date on things again.
@op just get the CX500
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