CX400w power advice on Sandy Bridge

AssaTM

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hey all, i'm thinking about jumping to a Sandybridge setup with a Corsair h50, and intending to hopefully overclock it to around 4.5ghz, while this alone i'm confident the Corsair CX400w can handle just fine, i'm wondering how much headroom this allows me for a graphics card? I literally only want a temporary graphics card to run CS 1.6 and Quake Live, 10 year old games, so it can be the weakest of the weakest GPU as long as it runs them just fine, then when I intend to buy a new GFX Card, i'll then buy a more powerful Power Supply, but I was wondering if an overclocked i5 to 4.5ghz and a low power Graphics Card would be fine on the CX400w? or would you recommend I buy a new power supply first and foremost? thank you for your time
 
For your use I would suggest something like this HD 5770. It will happily run with your system and power supply (can only draw 108W maximum), is a fairly fast card that will handle those gaming needs without a problem and due to its price point and performance you will be able to sell it on in a few months time and not loose much money (when you do the full PSU + GPU upgrade).
 
Alright that sounds like a plan then, thank you guys ;D, and also I have the XMS3 DDR3 Ram that I can lower the voltage on to work safely with Sandy Bridge right? I guess thats as simple as lowering the RAM voltage in the BIOS on the first boot then away I go? as it'd be nice if I dont have to change RAM for the upgrade too :)
 
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