new pc wattage

May 23, 2018
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Hello.. Recently my old computer died.. One minute of silence for all those hours of gameplay and movies (wink wink).

It was an old quad core a10 amd. But last year I upgrade its psu to a corsair cx 600 watts. (yes... Too much for a 150watts computer. But, why not?)

The thing ia, now im building a high end computer. (inside my budget) and if I can use this psu I could afford the water cooling system.

The new pc will be: I7 8700k hexacore
Gygabite z370 ultra gaming
Creative sound blaster z sound card
Radeon rx 580 4gb
G. Trident ddr4 16gb (2x8)
Razer:
Ornata keyboard, fireflies mousepad and naga hex mouse all chroma.

Is my psu power enought?
 
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Wattage wise? Yes. Build quality wise? Not so much.
Corsair CX series PSUs, at best, are mediocre quality units. I'd use Corsair CX series PSU to power office PC that doesn't have dedicated GPU in it and where PSU never sees any high loads. But for gaming PC, with a dedicated GPU and K-series CPU that you can OC, i'd go with good quality or great quality PSU. On other words, anything from Seasonic lineup, e.g Focus+ 550 80+ Gold or PRIME 650 80+ Titanium.

Aeacus

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Wattage wise? Yes. Build quality wise? Not so much.
Corsair CX series PSUs, at best, are mediocre quality units. I'd use Corsair CX series PSU to power office PC that doesn't have dedicated GPU in it and where PSU never sees any high loads. But for gaming PC, with a dedicated GPU and K-series CPU that you can OC, i'd go with good quality or great quality PSU. On other words, anything from Seasonic lineup, e.g Focus+ 550 80+ Gold or PRIME 650 80+ Titanium.
 
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