SG06 300W, i5 2400, GTX 560 — will it blend?

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Hey guys! My MacBook runs TF2 like **** so I’ve decided to build a small gaming rig. I’ve been out of the whole hardware business for five years, so please excuse my lameness.

What do I want
Games for me, RAW photo processing for my wife in a smallest form factor possible.

Budget
$1000, more or less. Russian prices are a bit higher than US + tax.

Parts
I’ve decided on the following:

Silverstone Sugo SG06B 300W case
Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3 motherboard
Intel Core i5 2400 CPU cooled by Scythe Shuriken Rev.B
Gainward 1024 MB GF GTX 560 GS GPU
2×4 GB Kingston DDR3 RAM (it’s cheap, why not?)
Seagate Momentus XT 2.5" HDD (or Seagate Momentus 7200.4 from my MacBook)
No optical drive, 3.5" cage removed
Windows 7 64-bit

I’ve read all the threads, I’ve seen German guys selling more powerful rigs with this PSU, but I’m still worried. I’ve got questions before I fork out the cash:

— Will the 300W PSU be enough for my build? I can’t find 450W versions of SG05/06 in Russia.

— Will it run TF2 in 2560×1440?

Thanks in advance!
 
Might get more replies if you posted this in General Hardware or something, as your questions are more performance related that SFF related

I'd be a bit worried about running that under 300w. Not entirely sure though

Note I'm only posting the following as no one else has replied.
My answers are based on a brief look at power usage in my system 1-2 years ago, and I'm not sure if I've remembered the numbers correctly (memory is foggy enough for me to warn you, so be noted :p)

I have an i5 750 @ 3.6ghz with 5850 and 2 hdd's.

When under load it was drawing 350w at the wall iirc. That was with Intel Burn Test running on 3 cores, plus running GPU bench in backround. I only ran IBT on 3 cores it gave a higher power usage then. I think IBT on 4 cores choked up the cpu the GPU bench ended up being so CPU limited it only used 5% GPU

I think because of PSU efficiency the wall readings are about 20% higher than actual use? So would have been using 280w or so

If you don't overclock maybe you'd be using 200-250w while playing tf2. In which case it sounds like you may be able to scrape by with 300w

Not sure about running TF2 at such I high res. I'd say yes, but I have no proof
 
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I think you're on the edge with power, this is a i7 980X system with the GTX 560:

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254W on that while gaming.

If you run Furmark it can take that system above 300W and overclocking at all certainly will.


Basically there's a chance that if you run a heavy load on the computer it may demand more power than the PSU can put out.

I've done that before and it caused the computer to literally switch off while gaming if things got busy.
 
Have you run the OCCT PSU test for one hour? I would expect the PSU to auto shutdown when it heats up in about half an hour (which is what happened to me sometime ago with the same case and psu, a stock q9550 and a GTS 250).
 
This is impressive, I had mine fan down, but had flipped the fan on the Shuriken rev. B to make sure that it does not compete with the PSU fan. These FSP PSUs are unexpectedly strong (not quiet, though).
 
I've got basically the same setup:

i5 2400
Asus H61 mobo
Kingston 2x4GB DDR3
Asus GTX 560 (regular cooling, its pretty short)
Seagate Hybrid HDD/SSD 500GB
Slot loading DVD writer
SG05
Upgraded to 450w Silverstone SFX PSU

I upgraded the PSU, just to give me that headroom. Had the same setup with a GTX460 768mb on the 300w PSU, but just wanted to give myself the room to upgrade if needed, plus the 450w PSU has 2 PCI-E power connectors, making the whole build a little cleaner.
 
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