I'm looking to upgrade my PSU as I've just bought a Sapphire radeon HD 6870 and my 450W isn't up to it at all!
I'm looking to play games like battlefield 3 on it with a really decent frame rate but I'm not too bothered about ultra mega super high settings.
I have in my case currently:
1 X SATA 500GB HDD
1 X Optical DVD/CD drive (I think SATA as well)
2 X 4GB RAM chips (8GB RAM)
1 X 4.2GHz AMD FX 4170 Quad Core Bulldozer Processor
1 X Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 (I haven't turned the PC on since putting this in as I don't wanna risk putting my PSU out in seconds)
1 X Dell ST2220M 22" HD Widescreen (wasn't sure whether to include it but here it is)
I want a relatively decent set up, but now all I need is the PSU to power it. From my inexperienced research I've seen corsair, XFX, Seasonic and Silverstone (bit pricey) are the decent makes but which one is the better one and at a decent price. Obviously I want 500W + but I'm aiming for 550-600 just to make sure I don't end up with a black wall and a large hole in my case!
Might be worth adding this link in (http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx) it's AMDs list of PSUs thata are compatible with the graphics card
Thanks for your time and opinions
Alex
I'm looking to play games like battlefield 3 on it with a really decent frame rate but I'm not too bothered about ultra mega super high settings.
I have in my case currently:
1 X SATA 500GB HDD
1 X Optical DVD/CD drive (I think SATA as well)
2 X 4GB RAM chips (8GB RAM)
1 X 4.2GHz AMD FX 4170 Quad Core Bulldozer Processor
1 X Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 (I haven't turned the PC on since putting this in as I don't wanna risk putting my PSU out in seconds)
1 X Dell ST2220M 22" HD Widescreen (wasn't sure whether to include it but here it is)
I want a relatively decent set up, but now all I need is the PSU to power it. From my inexperienced research I've seen corsair, XFX, Seasonic and Silverstone (bit pricey) are the decent makes but which one is the better one and at a decent price. Obviously I want 500W + but I'm aiming for 550-600 just to make sure I don't end up with a black wall and a large hole in my case!
Might be worth adding this link in (http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx) it's AMDs list of PSUs thata are compatible with the graphics card
Thanks for your time and opinions
Alex