I had been planning to have a go at building my first gaming PC and after purchasing a golden flower green HX 80+ gold 550w PSU and a GTX 950 xtreme GPU I saw a PC with the following specs which I managed to get for £550 with all the boxes and receipts (all bought together 3 months ago)
Specs are as followed
Intel i5 6600k (skylake)
Asus z170 pro gaming motherboard
16gb kingston hyper x ddr4 ram 2400mhz
Corsair h55 liquid cpu cooler
120 gb kingston ssd
1tb western digital hdd
Corsair 650 psu
Msi gtx970
Also comes with
Logitec g303 mouse
Corsair m300 extended mouse pad
Trust keyboard
Spare gaming mouse
And a logitec c270 webcam
I wont be using SLI so the only changes I am likely to make to this is replacing the 1tb hard drive with 2x 3tb Toshibas and replacing the 120gb HDD with either a 256GB Toshiba sata or a 120/128gb M2 drive
My question is this, would the golden flower gold PSU be sufficient to power this system and still leave a healthy amount of headroom primarily
And secondly is the golden flower HX gold a better PSU than the corsair CX650?
I may try the 950 xtreme card in there as the 970 might be excessive for just playing world of tanks and command and conquer lol, but I was amazed to find out that theres hardly any difference in power consumption between the 950 and 970 for some reason (140 vs 145 watts) which didn't seem to make ANY sense whatsoever.
But for the purpose of the question just assume I am leaving the 970 in the machine
I did try to find this out for myself but reviews and views seem to completely contradict each other and some reviewers love and hate both PSUs leaving me more confused than before I started so I thought I would try and get some real world opinions rather than reviewers who "might" be biased due to free product deals from one company or the other to review them
Also if its ok to tack on another question, I am completely new to M2 drives having never had a machine that supports them before. So any recommendations on a drive that will match well with that motherboard without requiring me to sell a kidney would be appreciated ideally I guess the x4 pcie type unless theyre ridiculously expensive but just one large enough for the OS and a 20gb partition for the swap file to reduce fragmentation
Cheers
Specs are as followed
Intel i5 6600k (skylake)
Asus z170 pro gaming motherboard
16gb kingston hyper x ddr4 ram 2400mhz
Corsair h55 liquid cpu cooler
120 gb kingston ssd
1tb western digital hdd
Corsair 650 psu
Msi gtx970
Also comes with
Logitec g303 mouse
Corsair m300 extended mouse pad
Trust keyboard
Spare gaming mouse
And a logitec c270 webcam
I wont be using SLI so the only changes I am likely to make to this is replacing the 1tb hard drive with 2x 3tb Toshibas and replacing the 120gb HDD with either a 256GB Toshiba sata or a 120/128gb M2 drive
My question is this, would the golden flower gold PSU be sufficient to power this system and still leave a healthy amount of headroom primarily
And secondly is the golden flower HX gold a better PSU than the corsair CX650?
I may try the 950 xtreme card in there as the 970 might be excessive for just playing world of tanks and command and conquer lol, but I was amazed to find out that theres hardly any difference in power consumption between the 950 and 970 for some reason (140 vs 145 watts) which didn't seem to make ANY sense whatsoever.
But for the purpose of the question just assume I am leaving the 970 in the machine
I did try to find this out for myself but reviews and views seem to completely contradict each other and some reviewers love and hate both PSUs leaving me more confused than before I started so I thought I would try and get some real world opinions rather than reviewers who "might" be biased due to free product deals from one company or the other to review them
Also if its ok to tack on another question, I am completely new to M2 drives having never had a machine that supports them before. So any recommendations on a drive that will match well with that motherboard without requiring me to sell a kidney would be appreciated ideally I guess the x4 pcie type unless theyre ridiculously expensive but just one large enough for the OS and a 20gb partition for the swap file to reduce fragmentation
Cheers
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