Which Bronze PSU? EVGA BQ 850W or Gigabyte 700W?

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EVGA on offer buy it
The price is ok
Personally will go for a psu with higher efficiency
Gold should be considered the norm
But it should work ok
 
Neither of them. The EVGA BQ series are built by HEC and reviews have shown them to be poor-mediocre and have cheap internals. I can't even find anything out about the Gigabyte units. No reviews and not even any information on who the oem is. Their previous ranges have been poor though so that's enough to rule that one out as well until a review shows it to be worthy of purchase.

Why settle for a bronze rated unit though? You are spending £1400 on a pc and yet appear to be trying to skimp on the psu which is argueably the most important component in the pc. It's also the best value (performance per pound) component at the moment with keen pricing on Gold and Platinum rated units. Unless you are going for a multi card setup then a 550w psu will be more than enough. Unfortunately most of the 550w units that we usually recommend are still out of stock and you have just missed the EVGA GS 550w being on offer for £54.

The EVGA Supernova GQ 650w is a very good psu at a reasonable price. It's gold rated and semi-modular and is a FSP built unit with the full 650w available on a single 12v rail. It has a 5 year warranty. Review here.

The Superflower Golden Green HX 750w is another quality semi modular psu. Built by Superflower themselves it is gold rated and has a single 12v rail of 744w and comes with a 5 year warranty.

If you don't mind hardwired cables the Superflower Platinum King 650w is on offer at the moment for a superb £70. It has a single 12v rail of 648w and has a 5 year warranty. Review here.
 
That's quite a difference in wattage between those two units OP - what system is this powering as I suspect you won't need that kind of output..
 
Thanks for replies so far.

I was going for the OcUK Neuron build. When I ordered it the spec stated that the PSU was a 700W Gold-rated Gigabyte PSU.

After I ordered it transpired that it was actually only the B7000H which is bronze rated.

I asked on here and was told that OcUK wouldn't pick inappropriate parts and not to worry, but the comments so far in this thread seem to contradict that now.

At the moment I don't know what system I'm going to end up with, but most recently it's looked like being an overclocked i7 with gigabyte G1 1070 (which is slightly OCed if I understand correctly), 16Gb RAM (if that makes a difference to power consumption?) and a couple of drives - M.2 and HDD.

I understand that PSU's are quieter when operating below their max output, hence the consideration of higher wattage models.
 
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