New PSU - please Help / advise

grantsmith82 · 25 Jul 2011 at 22:39

Hi All,
I am currently doing a new build for a media pc using my old gateway M/b and intel quad Q6600 with 8gb ram.

I have an Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 sound card to put in and a gtx 275 graphics card. and i have a small 60gb SS drive. (as most of it will be run/streamed over a network)

However my only concern at the moment is the power supply. i was in ****** yesterday and picked up on offer (£50) a G7 power extreme 880w.

however the 2 doubts in my mind are.. is this going to be ok and reliable?
and does it have the right/ enought connectors on it?

its all still sealed etc and looking on the back of the box it has the following

1x main 24 (20+4_ pin connector
5 x peripheral connector (4 pin) (looks like the round circular 4 pin)
1x floppy connector (4pin)
n/a - ATX12V 4 pin connector
1x EPS12V (4+4) pin connector
4 x s-ata connector (5pin)
2x PCI - Express connector (6 pin)

what do you think guys will this have enought connection (im just thinking aswell for the gtx275) and what do you think of the PSU

any help/ advise be appreciated

stulid · 25 Jul 2011 at 22:41

is this going to be ok and reliable?

Nope.

Never skimp on the PSU, you wont find any other decent 850W+ PSU at £50 anywhere so that should have sent the alarms ringing.

For £50 you can have this modular PSU - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-037-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098 - which is well tested and reviewed across the web.

grantsmith82 · 26 Jul 2011 at 01:09

thanks for the advise looks like ill take it back tomorrow and have to dig a little deeper in my pockets. out of curiosity to run say a gtx275 what watt PSU will i need? 600w? 700w?

stulid · 26 Jul 2011 at 01:13

Good 500-600W for a GTX275 and any CPU/motherboard combo.

grantsmith82 · 27 Jul 2011 at 10:53

i got myself a OCZ 700W PSU yesterday only snag now is my GPU doesnt fit in the case lol will have to mod the case and take out one of the metel divides

stulid · 27 Jul 2011 at 10:55

lol. always the way.

grantsmith82 · 27 Jul 2011 at 13:46

are they all pretty much the same lenght? or some models tend to be shorter? really im only going to be using the pc for media streaming divx, mpg, dvd, tbh maybe i dont really need the graphics card in there i have a decent asus sound card in their