Whats a good stable PSU for gaming?

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Building a gaming system want to know whats a good reliable, but not too dear power unit - I've had bad experiences with them in the past:-

its for
i5 4670K CPU
Corsair hydro H100i heat sink
Asus Maximus Ranger Vii board Z97
2133mhz memory 2x4GB (not chosen yet)
either Radeon R9 290X (XFX)
0r Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 Msi
240GB SSD hard drive
2TB Sata Hard Drive
 
Do you want a PSU for SLI/Crossfire or a single card only?

If 2 way setup,

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £107.99
1 x Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £83.99
Total : £206.08 (includes shipping : £11.75).




For a single card,

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £55.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
Total : £111.68 (includes shipping : £9.75).

 
What's your budget?

I would recommend a Seasonic, Superflower or Antec 650w gold or. 750w+ if your considering running dual cards.
 
Just a single card...

either a Radeon R9 290X (XFX)
0r Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 Msi gaming - Not sure which yet - a mate states the GTX 770 is better for gaming, however a review site basically stated the R9 290X is much better. I'm pricing up everything else then going for the best card for the money thats left...

My son wants a gaming PC for at his mum' house. At mine he has a tri core amd CPU with a MSI gaming R9 270X card which pretty much plays everything he plays on high settings now (he uses steam) But we want to future proof as much as possible too.

I've read on another review site that graphics cards improve in performance in this order, getting better as goes up... but that means a good stable PSU - I will be overclocking the CPU and the memory... not sure about the graphics card never done that before... whatever I go for needs to be able to run the above hardware with any of these Graphics cards whilst over clocking

THIS IS HOW THEY WERE LISTED/RATED ON A REVIEW SITE... the latter being the better
Geforce GTX 760 (Upper mid range value leader)
Radeon R9 280X (High resolution value leader) -not sure what that means in terms of gaming
Feforce GTX 770 (High end gaming pick)
Radeon R9 290 (very high end performance pick)
Radeon R9 290X (flagship gaming performance)
GeForce GTX 780 Ti (fastest single GPU gaming card)

PS Thanks for the help... I was looking at the EVGA Gold rated 650watt is that any good? and years ago I had an unstable antec PSU...
 
For a single gpu then any of the 550W in stulid's spec will be fine. If you want a touch more headroom then you could go for 650W

YOUR BASKET
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £79.99
1 x Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £73.99
Total : £258.07 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The Superflower is longer than the average psu (200mm) so make sure your case has room.
The Seasonic Evo is fully modular, and cheaper than the two 650W as it is only Bronze rated rather than Gold. Not really a big deal to be honest. It is still an excellent power supply.

Have you bought any of the parts in your opening post yet ?

You could go for an air cooler for half the price of the H100i
 
was going to order later today or tomorrow at latest.

He's chosen so far
Corsair CC9011050 case (mainly for venting on top so we can use a hydro heatsink) plus he likes the look. We were looking at a hydo heatsink as we've been told it allows greater overclocking and is a lot quieter than an aircooling heat sink - not got much experience over clocking I've only ever used the boards over clocking softwares before but its something he would like the option to experiment with (he's 14)

Intel i5 4670 processor - recommended as a good chip for over clocking

Asus Maximus VII Ranger intel z97 motherboard. - (we were torn between this and the MSI gaming 5 board - opting for the new Z97 chipset boards due to reviews from a places like bit-tech and pcadvisor. - the ranger has won stuff like vortex gold, bit-tech premium, several different editors choice awards, some great reviews posted, told its a great build, military spec capacitors, overclocking extras, good audio and loads of gaming enhancing programs as well - normally I go for mid range giga-byte or MSI boards, but as we are looing at over clocking I thought a better quality board was needed.)

went for the corsair hydro H100i heatsink just on a friends recommendation. he states its a lot quieter than an air heatsink and is more stable allowing greater overclocking.

Memory looking at 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 2133mhz. I usually use corsair or crucial, but the QVList for this board is G.Skill, Corsair and kingston so probably corsair vengence

thats it so far -
 
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