600W PSU are they enough for my specs. ????

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  1. Kazeekage
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    For this specs. is it enough to have a 600W PSU or do i need more. I'm not planing in the future to have more than 1 GPU.

    AMD FX-8120 X8 Black Edition tunned @ 4.2GHz
    XFX HD 7850 Double Dissipation Edition 2GB
    Corsair DDR3 1866MHz 8GB Dominator GT Kit CMT8GX3M2A1866C9
    120GB Vertex 3 OCZ SATA3
    Seagate 1TB SATA3 64MB
    Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5

    Cooler Master 600W RS600-80GAD3-EU Silent Pro Gold APFC Modular
    FSP Aurum 600W
    Enermax Modu87+ GOLD 600W EMG600AWT
    Corsair CMPSU-650AXEU 650W AX Series
    Corsair CMPSU-750HXEU 750W HX Series

    so which one i will not pay more than 120-140$
     
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    Corsair HX750 would be my bet. I got the HX850 and love it.
     
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    I would recommend a 750 watt. Your power draw will be around 400-450w with that setup while playing a game, so a 600w will be adequate for the first couple years but after that you will be pushing max capacity from the PSU due to degradation. I would get the HX750 as Sogetsu said, it is the best PSU of that bunch.
     
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    I grabbed an HX850 but I'm a little worried I should have held off on the purchase for power. It is going to go with a Sabertooth Z77, i7-3770 with a corsair H100 to cool it, GTX680, 4x8gb ram, 2 hard drives, 2 disc readers.
     
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    Ack. I havent done kW calcs on the new stuff, it should be ok if you dont SLI but mighta gone 1k PSU.
     
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    Thanks for the advice. The price difference is also very minimal between then HX850 and HX1050. It would be nice to have the freedom to toy with things further as I go on.
    I went with newegg and near as I can figure, the RMA looks to be rather painless within the 30days and they even have "I'm a dummy that didn't order the right thing" as an option ^^
     
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    As long as you dont get the HX1000 you will be fine. Its really 2 500 units put together and has issues occassionally because of that.
     
  8. EniGmA1987
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    eh. I think the 850w will be plenty
     
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    As a comparison, I have a Phenom II 966BE @ 3.8ghz, 16gb 1333mhz ram, and TWO Radeon 6870s. In Battlefield 3, I pull about 550-580watts at the wall. With Prime95 and Furmark I have hit over 600watts. So with a single videocard, you shouldn't ever hit above 450watts.