Is this power supply any good?

kennetht04

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I'm super budget and I don't think that my new computer will come with anything more then a 500w power supply. Someone told me that anything less then 500w is too little. I found this 700 watt psu for a very cheap price and wondered what the catch is. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

PSU:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/10136934/CiT-700UB-Black-Edition-700W-PSU-Power-Supply-Unit/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518%7Ccat:10136934%7Cprd:10136934

Computer:
http://www.littlewoods.com/zoostorm-core-i3-2120-processor-8gb-ram-500gb-hard-drive-base-unit/1103576379.prd?browseToken=%2fb%2f101004%2c4294958002%2fs%2fbestsellers%2c0&trail=4739-4877-101004-4294958002
 

sk1939

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The catch is that it's probably of low quality. However told you that is generalizing. If your running an i3 with dedicated graphics and 1 HDD, you could run that on a 100W power supply just fine. Even an i5-2500k with a GTX 680 could run on a 650W power supply, it all depends. What are the specs of your new system?
 

teh_gerbil

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@Op:
If you were a guy, would you take home the first uggo you found with herpes or would you spend a little bit time and money to take home someone without any STD's?
I daresay your answer is yes, so stop doing it. Shop around, spend a wee bit, this is the HEART of your computer you are talking about, I had a bad PSU, bloody rooted my motherboard. So if you respect yourself, respect your computer, and get a PSU that's at least 80+ certified (first thing to look out for) and the next thing would be go here:
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
Do it cause without knowing EVERY component we are just making our best guesses. When you know your PRECISE minimum Wattage PSU, come back on here and ask for a good XXX psu.
 

kennetht04

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popatim

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Replacing a stock (low quality) PSU with another quality PSU just doesnt make any sense. Buy a quality 450-500w PSU (like Corsair, Seasonic, many more ) and you pretty much won't have to worry about a cheap peice of crap killing your motherbd and you pretty much wont have to worry about 'can it run your graphics card' since a good 450w will run just about any single card made.

Come on you UK people, link him to some quality PSU's available over there.