Building a gaming rig

stulid · 10 Mar 2012 at 22:01

jacobckhippy said:
You get paid to be moderator ?

Nah.

Oggy · 10 Mar 2012 at 22:48

Decent pc for 500 quid, again great advice from stulid (yes I'm still lurking )

Wish I didn't have to buy the whole shhbang (my topic is on the way stulid dont worry!)

jacobckhippy · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:23

I'm trying to cut costs a bit and game across this Galaxy 3 case with A PSU included.
It Could save me some$$:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-OP

DO you think this would work for the aforementioned setup ?

RJC · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:31

I would avoid the PSU in that case like the plague, minimal on the PSU would be the XFX linked above.

jacobckhippy · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:44

why so ?

Surveyor · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:50

jacobckhippy said:
why so ?

Because it'll be cheap crap and won't be able to produce anywhere near its advertised power on the all important 12V rail and would probably blow up if it tried.

£35 for a case and PSU.

Are you prepared to risk £500 worth of components with a £10 PSU?

RJC · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:53

jacobckhippy said:
why so ?

Because the PSU is cheap and nasty and probably wont be able to supply the rated output.

Also these dont usually have the protection which could course failure to your system if it does fail.

When building a NEVER skimp on the PSU.

Rusty0611 · 11 Mar 2012 at 16:59

RJC said:
Because the PSU is cheap and nasty and probably wont be able to supply the rated output.

Also these dont usually have the protection which could course failure to your system if it does fail.

When building a NEVER skimp on the PSU.

What he said ^