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Corsair CX430 vs. OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS 700W?

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June 1, 2014 6:11:18 PM

I'm doing a partial upgrade on a lower budget(motherboard, RAM, CPU) and it currently has an OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS 700W; I want to know if it is necessary to swap to a newer PSU that is 80+ certified:

My planned Build:

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
AMD FX-6300 + Zalman CNPS9900A LED cooler
4GB Kingston Fury HyperX 1600MHz
MSI Radeon 6870 Hawk 1GB
Windows 7 64-bit
ASUS VH238H 23-Inch 1080p 60Hz LED Monitor

I plan to upgrade the video card to an R9 280 or better, add another stick of RAM and upgrade the cooler to a Corsair H100i later; I do plan to OC, I do NOT plan on running a crossfire setup in this build. Based on my research, a dual GPU configuration would be bottlenecked by the FX-6300. If I ever decide I want to upgrade to a dual GPU setup I would plan on building a completely new Core i5 or better system.

Thanks in advance

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June 1, 2014 6:23:14 PM

Do NOT get the CX430!!!!
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June 1, 2014 6:24:05 PM

your OCZ should be fine still even for that build.
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June 1, 2014 6:29:59 PM

Does your PSU have a date of manufacture on it? While the 80+ certification means nothing other than how efficient (and thus cheap to run) your PSU is, I'd be concerned with age, the fact that OCZ has gone out of business and whether the PSU has the right connectors.

If it's >5 years old, I'd probably swap it. Just on principle.

I assume you evaluate the power draw of your planned system and there is sufficient capacity in a 430W PSU? I'd not have gone that low, myself.
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June 1, 2014 6:46:33 PM

Your OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS has plenty of power to run the specs you want.
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June 1, 2014 7:55:44 PM

OCZ StealthXStream is a good psu. tier 2. nothing wrong with that

700w is a very comfortable amount of wattage as well
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June 3, 2014 12:19:02 PM

Karsten75 said:
Does your PSU have a date of manufacture on it? While the 80+ certification means nothing other than how efficient (and thus cheap to run) your PSU is, I'd be concerned with age, the fact that OCZ has gone out of business and whether the PSU has the right connectors.

If it's >5 years old, I'd probably swap it. Just on principle.

I assume you evaluate the power draw of your planned system and there is sufficient capacity in a 430W PSU? I'd not have gone that low, myself.


There's no date on manufacture visible on the PSU or it's original packaging, however it was purchased from newegg on 5/27/2014 so it's almost exactly 4 years since installation. I haven't even come close to pushing it to its limits. I purchased it in case I ever wanted to add a second GPU which I've still never done.

SR-71 Blackbird said:
Your OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS has plenty of power to run the specs you want.


So for now I don't intend to swap the power supply, but I'm now wondering if I should still plan to because of it's 4 year age, and if so should I consider the CX500 or EVGA 100-B1-0500-KR?
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June 3, 2014 1:22:29 PM

I would take the EVGA 500B or 600B over the Corsair CX500 or CX600
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