New Rig
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Awesome. I ordered a similar setup a couple of weeks ago and am well pleased. The 3700+ seems an awesome overclocking chip. I ordered the OEM version and have overclocked it as in signature... and it's not even breaking a sweat at this level. A bit more tweaking at the weekend me thinks!
jongeeone said:juse bought a cheap case with 400 watt psu
Ouch, doesn't sound great. Never a good idea to skimp on the PSU. Ask any member here and they'll tell you the PSU is the most important part of the system. There really is a massive difference in quality from those cheapo PSUs that come with cases from competitor sites and a decent PSU from the likes of Enermax, Antec, Tagan, Seasonic etc. I've had cheap PSUs in the past and they've been nosiy, unreliable and have broken easily - taking other components with them. They also have massively exaggerated power ratings. The 400W one you just bought will be probably less powerful than a 300W model from a quality manufacturer.
Sorry to sound so awful, but when you get the funds, I really would invest in a new PSU.
p4radox said:Ouch, doesn't sound great. Never a good idea to skimp on the PSU. Ask any member here and they'll tell you the PSU is the most important part of the system. There really is a massive difference in quality from those cheapo PSUs that come with cases from competitor sites and a decent PSU from the likes of Enermax, Antec, Tagan, Seasonic etc. I've had cheap PSUs in the past and they've been nosiy, unreliable and have broken easily - taking other components with them. They also have massively exaggerated power ratings. The 400W one you just bought will be probably less powerful than a 300W model from a quality manufacturer.
Sorry to sound so awful, but when you get the funds, I really would invest in a new PSU.
I think he's talking about the Optronix cases and the 400W PSU's which come with them are actually very good. I have one but bought a separate enermax PSU just in case but the PSU which comes with it has good rails and is rather heavey (although I'm not using it now, I have just recently used this PSU in a friends PC and had no problems whatsoever)
