PSU Upgrade

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I recently decided to "upgrade" my old system I built about 5 years ago and now have a ASUS P5QL-PRO mobo, core 2 extreme processor, 6gb ddr2 ram and literally just plugged a Geforce GTX 780 into there...

However that's where I have hit problems with essentially an old system with newer parts, everything went in fine with a little modding to my case but my PSU is of such an age now that it only has 1 x 6pin pcie connector, whereas the GTX 780 requires two of them to power it.

I have a budget of £60 for a new PSU and the current one is 750w so would rather not downgrade for the sake of an extra plug, yet on the other hand not "bodge" with adapter plugs.

Can anyone recommend a PSU around 750w and in the £60 budget? Preferably the modular kind, I have found various ones with mixed reviews so not really sure what I should be looking at.
 
The worlds most useless response here, im at work at the moment so can't get the model name... all I know is I bought it from maplins quite some time ago and has 750 in the name. Here's a picture off my phone from last night...

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The GPU came with two adapter leads, one of which is shown in that picture plugged into the GPU and connected up to the only 6pin pcie connector on my PSU.
 
Would that work? I already have one of those black connectors... would that be fine using the one I already have and that adapter off something else that's spare?
 
Haha, was expecting that :P

So with a £60 budget and looking between 650 - 750w and preferably modular, what would you recommend?

Way back when I got that PSU im pretty sure modular ones didn't even exist...
 
Bugger it, I ordered the Supernova G2 ;)

Well above the budget but at least I know its future proof to an extent, it just means less presents for people this year haha! :p
 
Going by the reviews I am sure I wont be disappointed ;)

Delivery on Thursday, I do hope that there's no issues connecting to my p5ql-pro mobo actually...

Rather looking forward to getting this machine back up and running haha, this laptop is crumby...
 
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