Power Supply Wattage!

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I might have made a school boy error!

I have the following items being delievered this morning from OCUK;

Argon Extreme Intel Core i3 2.93GHz @ 4.20GHz Overclocked Bundle;
- CPU: Intel Core i3 2.93GHz @ 4.20GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Artic Cooling Freezer 7 CPU Cooler

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Samsung SH-S223CBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA

Now i planned on using my existing power supply Atrix Black 80+ High Efficiency PC Power Supply Unit feeds up to 650 watts Im worried is this enough especially with the overclock !
 
I would recommend you do not use that PSU. It is not a reliable unit, and if you are overclocking the reliability drops even more.
 
This build had a £500.00 budget it's already up to £700.00 not the answer i was looking for :(

650w should suffice - but buy a well known branded one?
 
gt_junkie said:
In the unfortunate event it fails it may take out other (far more valuable) components! :(

Ask some 580w Hyper Type-R owners from a few years back. I personally wouldn't risk it.

gt
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it is fairly new PSU about 3 months or so, i asusme you mean failing after a period of time. Money is tight after recent purchase - 2 - 3 weeks should suffice till pay day?
 
Not necessarily failing after a period of time - you might throw the whole thing together and it might all go bang. Cheap PSUs are not very reliable.

Tis up to you really!
 
Atrix is a maker of cheap and nasty poor quality psu's. Just did a search and £39.99 for a 650w psu is a joke. It's very doubtful if that is even capable of putting out close to 650w. As you are being told now, always buy a quality brand psu. It's the most important component in a pc and should not be skimped on. Buy a cheap one and you end up buying twice when you could have got a decent one in the first place. A cheap one is also more likley to take out the rest of your rig when it fails.
 
kai said:
it is fairly new PSU about 3 months or so, i asusme you mean failing after a period of time. Money is tight after recent purchase - 2 - 3 weeks should suffice till pay day?
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Nope - i mean fail as soon as it is stressed.

As others have echoed it is quite likely that it could just fail and since it's a 'budget' make the likelihood of it dying and surging various components in your PC is higher than i'd be prepared to risk.

Of course it's 100% up to you though - if it were to fail and take out even a hundred pounds worth of your system then the decision not to spend that £50+ in the first place may come back to haunt you...

In fact imagine if it took the whole system out - surely that would be well over £400 down the pan. :(

gt
 
kai said:
it is fairly new PSU about 3 months or so, i asusme you mean failing after a period of time. Money is tight after recent purchase - 2 - 3 weeks should suffice till pay day?
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I would agree with other on the PSU advise, how gutted will you be if you load a game 1 week in and the psu goes pop taking the motherboard with it. Imagine new motherboard cost, taking everything apart, rebuilding uhhhh not worth it:)
On the side of caution if it only going to be for 3 weeks untill you have some money, i would build the rig return to the to DEFAULT to lesson the load, then once you have your decent PSU just pop into to bios and re activate the oc profile :D
 
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