- Aug 7, 2013
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So I've been using this thing for the last 5+ years. For history, it ran an 8800GT and Athlon 64X2 for the first few years, then the 8800 died and I replaced it with a GT210 (the dark times...). That lasted until last year, when I built a new budget rig with a Pentium G630 and HD 6670, and it's been powering that ever since. Still hasn't given me any problems thus far.
But it has been a while, and it seems like I may have been lucky with mine (I certainly got lucky with the PCI-E and SATA cable count, since I had no idea to check for those when I bought it, and wound up with exactly as many as I've needed thus far) so I figure it might be about time to refresh it.
As far as future requirements, I don't figure I'd really ever go for more than the cheapest Core-i5 of whatever Gen is newest, a GTX 660/HD 7870 (or whatever will rank as their hierarchal equivalents in the future), and 4 SATA devices. No plans to fiddle with overclocking. SLI/Crossfire would be considerations for the future, but not necessarily for the PSU I'd be getting next.
Also, I am often quite the skinflint (which is why I cheaped out on my current PSU all those years ago) and will be taking suggestions into consideration for which ones I should be on the lookout for when Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals start to kick in. So there's that.
One final note, and it's the main reason I come asking for suggestions, is... you know those numbers on the side of the PSU? The one everyone says are important and should be payed attention to? With the voltage and amperage or whatever? Yeah. I have no idea what they mean or what numbers would be ideal. So I guess that's really why I come to you guys.
But it has been a while, and it seems like I may have been lucky with mine (I certainly got lucky with the PCI-E and SATA cable count, since I had no idea to check for those when I bought it, and wound up with exactly as many as I've needed thus far) so I figure it might be about time to refresh it.
As far as future requirements, I don't figure I'd really ever go for more than the cheapest Core-i5 of whatever Gen is newest, a GTX 660/HD 7870 (or whatever will rank as their hierarchal equivalents in the future), and 4 SATA devices. No plans to fiddle with overclocking. SLI/Crossfire would be considerations for the future, but not necessarily for the PSU I'd be getting next.
Also, I am often quite the skinflint (which is why I cheaped out on my current PSU all those years ago) and will be taking suggestions into consideration for which ones I should be on the lookout for when Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals start to kick in. So there's that.
One final note, and it's the main reason I come asking for suggestions, is... you know those numbers on the side of the PSU? The one everyone says are important and should be payed attention to? With the voltage and amperage or whatever? Yeah. I have no idea what they mean or what numbers would be ideal. So I guess that's really why I come to you guys.
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