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CCIP · 12-23-11, 02:40 PM

And why on earth would you ever want an 1000-1500W PSU on a budget, normal-format PC?

You should play around with the wattage calculator and check your PSU specs to see if you need an upgrade at all. I recently 'downgraded' mine to a slightly older, lower-wattage CPU (because my 'new' one blew), and have only seen improvements as a result (my system tops out at an actual requirement of 380W, on a 420W PSU). http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

I'd also suggest that you actually give a video card upgrade another thought. IMO these days it's smarter to build gaming-oriented rigs around video cards rather than CPU/Motherboard like it used to be (i.e. that's the first thing you should decide on, and the part that you should consider matching the rest of your system to, since it can determine everything from motherboard type to required PSU power and cooling requirements). Depends on what you play of course, but more and more games are far more demanding on video cards these days than they are on CPU/RAM. If you ask me - a very fast, high-power processor is not a good investment if gaming is your main interest. Better to go with something affordable and solid - that i5 longam suggested may well serve your needs. And unless you're going to use your system for things like video production, 3D animation, and other things of that sort - 16+ GB of RAM is a waste; games or any other standard PC operation right now will never use more than a fraction of that. That will change over time, but right now... not worth it.

12-23-11, 02:40 PM	#9
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	And why on earth would you ever want an 1000-1500W PSU on a budget, normal-format PC? You should play around with the wattage calculator and check your PSU specs to see if you need an upgrade at all. I recently 'downgraded' mine to a slightly older, lower-wattage CPU (because my 'new' one blew), and have only seen improvements as a result (my system tops out at an actual requirement of 380W, on a 420W PSU). http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I'd also suggest that you actually give a video card upgrade another thought. IMO these days it's smarter to build gaming-oriented rigs around video cards rather than CPU/Motherboard like it used to be (i.e. that's the first thing you should decide on, and the part that you should consider matching the rest of your system to, since it can determine everything from motherboard type to required PSU power and cooling requirements). Depends on what you play of course, but more and more games are far more demanding on video cards these days than they are on CPU/RAM. If you ask me - a very fast, high-power processor is not a good investment if gaming is your main interest. Better to go with something affordable and solid - that i5 longam suggested may well serve your needs. And unless you're going to use your system for things like video production, 3D animation, and other things of that sort - 16+ GB of RAM is a waste; games or any other standard PC operation right now will never use more than a fraction of that. That will change over time, but right now... not worth it. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)