What kind of power supply unit is good for my build?

wspy · Jun 12, 2015

Hi all,
I'm new here. Looks like a great community. I read the stickies. I hope I'm following the rules...

I'm building my first (budget) gaming PC and these are the parts I have at the moment:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ggtpYJ

Notes:
I will overclock the CPU
My DVD writer was not listed, so I chose the closets model. The model I have is the AD-7200s.
I may also add a SSD in the near future.

I have an option to buy a case/power supply combo at a good price (65$ CAN). I'm not sure of the make of the power supply though. I do know that it's 550w. Is that sufficient for my build? I'm also open to suggestions, but please keep in mind that this is a budget build.

turbopiki · Jun 12, 2015

Build a PC on Canadian PCpartpicker, note you cant OC with H81 chipset motherboard, 8gb of ram is enough for gaming, dont buy Aftermarket CPU cooler and change G3258 for i3 4160 because you wont be able to afford good motherboard fro OC with this budget

wspy · Jun 12, 2015

turbopiki :

I was under the impression my motherboard was capable of OCing. I got the info from here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2278797/overclock-intel-pentium-g3258-msi-h81m-p33.html

turbopiki · Jun 12, 2015

My bad totaly forgot that you can OC with h81 chipset now, but you wont be able to OC very much it only has 3 power phases, so i3 will be better, you also have hyperthreading on i3 so it acts like a quad core, you wont be able to play some games because some newer games want quad core CPUS

wspy · Jun 12, 2015

turbopiki :

All good! Would have sucked if it didn't, as I've already purchased it along with the CPU.
I know there's a "fix" out there that allows the g3258 to play a good number of games that have quad core requirements.
It's a real budget build for sure, but from what I've seen/read, many have had good results with the G3258 and H81 MB using a half decent GPU.

Do you think a 550w power supply is sufficient? Any recommendations. Just keep in mind I'm trying to keep it as low cost as I can.

turbopiki · Jun 12, 2015

After some time there come fixes that allowe dual cores CPU to play so dont worry.

As for the PSU everthing abouv 500W from Tier 1 or 2 will be enough

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

US: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/antec-power-supply-hcg620m
CAN: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/antec-power-supply-ea550green

If these tow are to expensive for you get something from tier 3

wspy · Jun 12, 2015

turbopiki :

Thanks for all your help Turbo!

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