Conroe System PS

[wormy]

I am building a computer for my friend and I am really having to take some short cuts to get this thing under his budget. I am looking for a PS that is under 60 bucks...I found this 1.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182016

If anyone else has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

This system will have 1 vid card, 1 hd, onboards sound and LAN.

 

[pwnage]

DEAR GOD NO

list the parts and ill see if i can recomend a few

 

[wormy]

Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600
Abit AB9 PRO P965
Corsair TWIN2X1024A-6400 1GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD 250GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
eVGA e-GeForce 7600 GT PCI Express 256MB


I need the absolute...cheapest power supply that can reliably get the job done.

 

[Vile]

I'm not saying the Abit AB9 Pro is bad or anything but, have you seen the motherboards layout ? I mean, the IDE port is between the PCI slots 8O I mean, wtf? lol.

I'd go for the Asus P5B instead.

 

[pwnage]

here are just a few that i found. i know you wanted one that is under 60, but finding a good 500W+ is difficult. i would suggest PC Power and Cooling but thier PSUs start at 200+ and thats a little out of the ball park. although i do highly recomend enermax. they have a long stading rep for good PSUs and i have used them many times.

This other company Hipro has gotten some good reviews from Toms Hardware, but i have never used them so i can give a "good" recomed for them

the PSU listed range from 69.00 - 104.00 i do suggest that you spend the extra cash and get a PSU that is more than $80 especialy since you are going to be running a conroe. a PSU is one of those parts that should alway be the first thing on you shoping list for a new machine and neveer skimped out on.

here is a link to another post on mine about PSUs. PLEASE read it. it will explane why not to buy a cheep PSU.

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1189477#1189477

Hipro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817128002
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817174024

Enermax
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194003
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103512
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103464

 

[sony3127]

I'll tell you one thing... the PSU is probably the most looked over part of a build and also one of THE most important parts. It's definatly NOT the part you want to cut corners on. It's kinda like the tires on the car... if you have terrible tires it doesn't matter what ABS or whatever crap you have it, you'll probably crash! Think about it, every device needs stable and sufficient power and it all comes from the PSU. So, my point being... tell your friend to dish out a little extra cash... at LEAST another $20 - $40 to pickup a decent PSU... or he'll be sorry later!

Here's one for about $87 shipped that should do the job and it's made by a good company:

THERMALTAKE TR2 500W Power Supply ATX12V V2.0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153028

GOOD LUCK!

 

[wormy]

Thanks a lot for your help guys...if it comes down to it I will help him out a little so he can get what he needs instead of just what will function...maybe drop him down to an E6300 if it comes down to it....if he wants to upgrade in 2 years...I assume this board will be able to handle a CPU upgrade just so its the same kind of chip. Right now he has an amd xp 1700+ with a 4x vid card....so I'm sure he will be happy reguardless. This build wont happen till December so I guess I can expect a 5-10% price drop in whatever I pick out right now.

 

[sony3127]

Thanks a lot for your help guys...if it comes down to it I will help him out a little so he can get what he needs instead of just what will function...maybe drop him down to an E6300 if it comes down to it....

Dude... lol... no offense but if he can't come up with the extra $27 between now and December for the good PSU then maybe he doesn't need to spend the hundreds of dollars on building a PC! (the $60 max you mentioned plus $27 equals the $87 needed to get the PSU I recommended )

 

[wormy]

Well he is only 13 so everything he will have saved depends on money he gets for his birthday and christmas...I told him not to eat at school and keep his 5 bucks his parents give him but they put it straight into his lunch account...Right now this build is based on the assumption that he will come up with 750 bucks by Christmas time.

 

[waylander]

First of all you don't need 500w so get the following psu for $51.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954

FSP makes very good psu's and you are at the budget you want.

 

[simonyee04]

This sound crazy but If you take a Enlight PSU or a Coolermaster PSU

How much power and juice is not from the price or the spec written on the covers but how big is the transformer that they put in ! Period !

 

[waylander]

You are retarded! Period!

 

[pwnage]

Why is it that peoople have to copy others. Damn sony you read the link i posted and playgerized it to hell.

anyway 500W is the standard now i use nothing less in all my system builds. this provides expandability and stablility, in most cases.

stick with my suggestion about the enermax PSUs. the forton PSUs get good reviews but i havent had the best of luck with them.

read some reviews this should give you a better idea of a good PSU