Cheap PSU needed Ryzen 5 2600 3.4ghz + Radeon Rx580

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Cheap PSU needed for a Ryzen 5 2600 3.4ghz + Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Pulse 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card. Will also have a 480 gb sandisk SSD and a 1tb spindle/platter hard drive. and 16 gb ddr ram. The motherboard will highly likely be an ASUS B450

I know you aren't supposed to scrimp on a PSU but I am fast running out of cash and can't afford a triple gold quality £200 PSU. I need one under £100 . Can anybody give me any ideas? It has to be able to power the parts above
 
When I read the thread title I thought here we go again, someone else wanting to power his new pc off a £20 psu (People skimping on the psu is one of my pet hates). Once I read what you have written my opinion changed straight away as you actually have a very good budget. You can buy a high quality psu for less than your £100 budget so with that in mind have a look at these:-

A quality 550w psu is more than enough to power your components. Please note that I will only ever recommend something that I would be 100% happy to use myself. With that in mind the cheapest replacement psu that I would recommend on OCUK is the Bitfenix Formula series 550w at £66.95. It's gold rated, has all of it's 550w available on the 12v rail and has a 5 year warranty. The downside is that all the cables are fixed.

The cheapest semi-modular psu on OCUK that I would recommend is the Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro 550w at £73.99. It is gold rated, semi-modular (24 pin and 4+4 pin fixed, the rest removeable), has 540w of it's power available on the 12v rail and has a 7 year warranty.

The cheapest fully modular psu on OCUK that I would recommend is the Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 550w at £82.99. It's gold rated, fully modular, has 540w of it's power available on the 12v rail and has a 10 year warranty.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
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If you want a bit of extra headroom consider the 650w version of the above psu's:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:
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***Please note*** I have included the Antec High Current Gamer (HCG) 650w as the Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 650w is out of stock. That's not a problem because they are essentially the same psu. Seasonic makes the Antec HCG and it's basically a Focus Plus Gold in a different casing with a different fan. It still has all of the features of the Seasonic including the 10 year warranty.
 
antec earthwatts gold pro is basically a seasonic focus (non-plus)
antec hcg gold pro = seasonic focus plus, as @pastymuncher mentioned above
internally, the electrical bits inside are exactly the same

the difference between the focus and focus plus is:
1) focus is semi modular, focus plus is fully modular - but the non-modular cables are cables that you'd need to use anyway...so...
2) also focus doesn't have hybrid fan mode (ie non-spinning fan at low loads)
3) warranty - 7 for the focus, 10 for the focus plus

only you can decide if the above 3 differences are worth the extra tenner or so
 
tamzzy said:
antec earthwatts gold pro is basically a seasonic focus (non-plus)
antec hcg gold pro = seasonic focus plus, as @pastymuncher mentioned above
internally, the electrical bits inside are exactly the same

the difference between the focus and focus plus is:
1) focus is semi modular, focus plus is fully modular - but the non-modular cables are cables that you'd need to use anyway...so...
2) also focus doesn't have hybrid fan mode (ie non-spinning fan at low loads)
3) warranty - 7 for the focus, 10 for the focus plus

only you can decide if the above 3 differences are worth the extra tenner or so
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so the wattage on all these PSU's are enough to power the CPU and GPU above, with the SSd and 1tb drive?
 
dlresponse said:
so the wattage on all these PSU's are enough to power the CPU and GPU above, with the SSd and 1tb drive?
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500w is more than sufficient for a 2600 + rx580.

but if you are going to upgrade your graphics card to something like a vega56/64, then definitely get a 650w psu
 
If you are going to pay £85+ for a 650w then you may as well get something like this instead, they are on the pre-black friday event, 80+ platinum, so very reliable, 5 year guarantee too, and although its more power than you need, if you do decide to upgrade to something more powerful in the future, one less worry is going to be requiring another more powerful PSU to run it, future proofing yourself.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

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dlresponse said:
so the wattage on all these PSU's are enough to power the CPU and GPU above, with the SSd and 1tb drive?
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aside from i dont have extra 8gb ram yet, the system in my sig is running perfectly fine off my 550w power supply, our processors have the same power, but your gpu has about 20-25w more, but i have more drives, so probably near even in overall consumption, so any of the suggests is fine.
 
Jamin280672 said:
If you are going to pay £85+ for a 650w then you may as well get something like this instead, they are on the pre-black friday event, 80+ platinum, so very reliable, 5 year guarantee too, and although its more power than you need, if you do decide to upgrade to something more powerful in the future, one less worry is going to be requiring another more powerful PSU to run it, future proofing yourself.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

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The psu's that we have listed above are all superior and have longer warranties than those Kolink units. With psu's you get what you pay for and I wouldn't touch a Kolink psu with a bargepole.
 
the kolink platinums are decent enough psus on a budget...but that's literally it
if just comparing by price, then they can't be beaten
unless OP needs a high wattage PSU at a budget then yeah, by all means - but it doesn't appear so...
 
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