PSU recommendation

Cream Cheese

Cream Cheese

Cream Cheese

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Just bought myself a new e8400 and asus P5Q pro. Wondering if my 480W PSU will be enough to keep this running? Could get my hands on a 600W would that be worth going for?
Also running a 8800GT and 4 hard drives
 
Depends on what brand you have now, I personally run the corsair series and have never had any issue and they are very quiet. Everyone on here will agree though that you shouldn't skimp on the PSU as it is the core of your machine and a little extra spent here can pay off many times over.
 
You should be fine and don't need a new psu.

I was running the following on a 4 year old Tagan 480W psu (psu "degrade" over time and the max power they can supply drops):

Q6600 @ 3.8Ghz
ATI 4870 oc
Abit Ip35pro
Laing D5 water pump
2 x 2Gb ram
1 x wireless card
1 x soundblaster audigy
2 x dvd drives
4 x hard drives (2 x raptors plus 2 x sata big drives)
7 x 120mm fans
1 x fan controller

When I added a blu ray writer though I found that all my saved overclocked settings in bios suddenly weren't stable anymore and I could only 3Ghz or 3.1Ghz out of my cpu.

Replacing my psu has now fixed that and I am back to 3.8Ghz stable again so I guess the bluray writer was the final straw!

"Quality" psu's tend to offer a surprsing amount of power without issues.

You cpu and gpu will draw much less power than my system and you have not mentioned watercooling and my d5 drew 24W of power in my system therefore I think you won't have a problem.

No point spending money unless you have to. ;)
 
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