Well... I've almost narrowed it down...

[GyRo567]

It's between these three now, and I'm trying not to let price influence me, but I will let it do so if they're all going to give me identical results.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817341001

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817341002

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817104015

And correct me if I'm wrong, but the lower two here look almost identical and some people in the comments are saying that they are indeed the same with different paint.

Anyway, initially I'm going to run an EVGA 680i (not planning on SLI ever, just overclocking all over the place & I'm uncomfortable with Intel chipsets) an E6400 w/Zalman 9700 overclocked for all it's worth, 2x512 MB RAM, 2 HDDs, one DVD+/-RW, and a lowly 7600 GT.

Obviously I'm not going to leave the RAM that low, but I'll probably just be adding a 3rd & 4th stick later on when I can afford it. I'll definitely be putting 4 HDDs in & probably a 5th one to run Vista separately at some point. And the big thing I'm worried about is a 9800 GTish Nvidia card. Roughly the 8800 GTS of whatever Nvidia's next generation of video cards is.

I'm not exactly sure where my power requirements will be, nor how much I need on the 12v rails. (although all three have four 18amp rails - the FSP one is mislabelled on NewEgg)

This is a plea for help. I don't know a whole lot about power, especially not with CPU overclocking, a lot of HDDs & future video cards.

 

[apt403]

I would get the 700w GamerXStream, its the most powerful of the three.

 

[GyRo567]

I've heard you can't boot up if you don't put enough load on it. Any truth to that, and would my initial setup put enough load on it?

Also: Is the OCZ 700w more powerful than the FSP 700w taking into account the 15a/18a typo that underrates it? Either way, price still has me leaning towards the OCZ one. I'm just more comfortable with FSP at the moment, having used their PSUs the past three years in every high end PC I built... >_>

 

[Valtiel]

I've heard you can't boot up if you don't put enough load on it. Any truth to that, and would my initial setup put enough load on it?

No, it wouldn't be so popular if people had that many problems with it.

Also: Is the OCZ 700w more powerful than the FSP 700w taking into account the 15a/18a typo that underrates it? Either way, price still has me leaning towards the OCZ one. I'm just more comfortable with FSP at the moment, having used their PSUs the past three years in every high end PC I built... >_>

There is no way for me to tell you the combined +12V rail (in amps) output unless you have correct max wattage for the combined 12V. If it is indeed 680W like the sticker says then it would be 57 amps.

 

[GyRo567]

Sounds like I should definitely go with this one then, right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817341002

Thanks for the help guys.