Builing a new system. Plan on buying a good quality mobo, good quality ram, and good quality psu -- I say good quality because I want to keep those components for close to 3 years.
I have a very limited budget so I'm going with a 7600gt and a $200cpu (c2d) for now BUT, I plan on upgrading to a high end video card in a year or so and also a faster cpu (maybe a quad?) in the future
So I'm looking for future proof PSU recommendations taking into consideration the power requirements of todays highest end vid cards (next year they'll be half the price) and predictions on what future socket LGA775 cpu power requirements may be.
Been doing alot of reading, but I'd appreciate any advice.
NOTE: will not be running SLI now or in the future.. so single vid card only.. I'm thinking 450 watt psu (true 450 that is)... Also will not be overclocking
NOTE: I know you can't cheap out on a good psu... but I really can't spend more than $100 and I'd "like" to only spend $60, but that may be unrealistic.
I have a very limited budget so I'm going with a 7600gt and a $200cpu (c2d) for now BUT, I plan on upgrading to a high end video card in a year or so and also a faster cpu (maybe a quad?) in the future
So I'm looking for future proof PSU recommendations taking into consideration the power requirements of todays highest end vid cards (next year they'll be half the price) and predictions on what future socket LGA775 cpu power requirements may be.
Been doing alot of reading, but I'd appreciate any advice.
NOTE: will not be running SLI now or in the future.. so single vid card only.. I'm thinking 450 watt psu (true 450 that is)... Also will not be overclocking
NOTE: I know you can't cheap out on a good psu... but I really can't spend more than $100 and I'd "like" to only spend $60, but that may be unrealistic.