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Which PSU would you use for this system?

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I'm having a bit of trouble deciding on a psu for the computer I'm building.

So far the components I'm looking at consist of the following:
Case – Cooler Master Centurion5 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811119068
Motherboard – Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128050
Processor – Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115030
RAM – G. Skill 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231098
Video Card – EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130082
Hard Drive – Samsung SpinPoint T Series 400GB SATA 3Gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152085
DVD +-RW – Samsung 18x SATA Burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827151141

These are the PSU's I'm thinking about:
Antec True Power Trio 430W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817103942
Antec Earthwatts 430W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817371006
Fortron AX450-PN 450W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817104954
Fortron Blue Storm II 500W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817104034
Enermax 460W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817194011

As far as I can tell any of these should be able to power my system. The only really power hungry component I'm planning is the video card and it only requires 400W with at least 26 amps on the 12v rail. Each of the psu's I've listed except the smaller Fortron carry at least 30 amps on the 12v and I believe the Fortron has 28. Any recommendations? I don't do a lot of over-clocking and I don't have a lot of hard drives or anything but I'm open to suggestions.

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