Is this a good Budget build and will the psu run it

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Deus Gladiorum


Not at all! That build will run just fine with a 430 W PSU. It may be cutting it a little close, but you're still fine and have a good number of watts for headroom. You may want to upgrade to something a little more just for the purposes of future proofing, but 430 W is perfectly fine.

To the OP, PC Partpicker has an accurate Wattage calculator built in. You can see it at the top right of any of your saved part lists after you click "view". It's very accurate. Who says 450 W is the lowest you want to go? At peak load, the Radeon HD 7870 consumes 170 W. It's all about the other components and how they add up...
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Deus Gladiorum

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That processor is a little too weak to properly handle an HD 7870. You'll get bottlenecking but it shouldn't be awful. You may want to upgrade yourself to an FX-6300 and get a compatible motherboard. Of course, you could always try overclocking but I don't think it'll be anywhere near as effective as just getting an FX-6300.
 
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Will the psu be able to run a 6300

 
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Not at all! That build will run just fine with a 430 W PSU. It may be cutting it a little close, but you're still fine and have a good number of watts for headroom. You may want to upgrade to something a little more just for the purposes of future proofing, but 430 W is perfectly fine.

To the OP, PC Partpicker has an accurate Wattage calculator built in. You can see it at the top right of any of your saved part lists after you click "view". It's very accurate. Who says 450 W is the lowest you want to go? At peak load, the Radeon HD 7870 consumes 170 W. It's all about the other components and how they add up. Anytime AMD or Nvidia claims that "such and such power supply is recommended" that's just bull. AMD even makes a note that wattage is dependent on all of the parts combined, not any one individual part. Hell, even a GTX Titan only consumes 260 watts.
 
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