Choosing PSU and Case

[xDoron22]

Hi, everyone!

I'm helping a friend building semi-new extreme budget system, all prices are converted to USD.

maximum budget: 700$.

 

I'm building this pc with the lowest possible prices for parts in my country (Israel)

side note: I can't order parts online from amazon, newegg, etc.

The store I'm buying from has all those parts and will install & ship to me with no additional charge.

 

Old parts:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC.

* Nvidia Recommends a minimum of 600W PSU with 42A on the 12V rails.

** Card length 292mm = 11.5 inch.

1 HDD 500GB.

 

New parts:

Quad Core i5 7500 Kaby Lake 3.4Ghz S1151 - Tray - 233$.

**Option #1 Quad Core i5 7400 Kaby Lake 3.4Ghz S1151 - Tray - 220$.

Antec A30 Silent 92mm Blue LED Fan -14$.

Gigabyte B250M D2V Kaby Lake S1151 - 86$.

8GB Crucial Ballistix-Sport DDR4 2400Mhz Black-Silver CL16 - 91.5$.

SSD Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SATA III 5 Years Warranty - 121.5$.

**Option #2 SSD SanDisk PLUS 240G SATA III - 99.5$.

LG DVD-RW X24 GH24SCO - 23$.

 

Using the above parts I'm left with 4 budget options for Case + PSU:

1. Budget of 131$ with (i5 7500 + Samsung SSD)

2. 144$ (7400 + Samsung SSD)

3. 153$ (7500 + SanDisk SSD)

4. 166$ (7400 + SanDisk SSD)

 

1. PSU and Case bundle - Antec 650W NE650M 80+ Bronze Modular + Cougar Archon DualFan (2x120mm) - (Total 125.5$).

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2:

- Antec 650W NE650M 80+ Bronze Modular - 90$ + Cougar MX310 Windowed - 45.5$. (Total 135.5$).

- Corsair 550W 80+ Bronze CX550M Modular- 95.5$ + Cougar MX310 Windowed - 45.5$. (Total 141$).

- Antec VP650PM Modular - 97$ + Cougar MX310 Windowed - 45.5$. (Total 142.5$).

- Antec 650W EA650G PRO 80+ GOLD Modular - 103$ + Cougar MG110-W - 40$. (Total 143$).

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3:

- Corsair 650W 80+ Bronze CX650M Modular - 108.5$ + Cougar MG110-W - 40$. (Total 148.5$).

- SeaSonic S12II-620 620W - 111.5$ + Cougar MG110-W - 40$. (Total 151.5$).

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4:

- Corsair 650W 80+ Bronze CX650M Modular - 108.5$ + Cougar MX330 Full-Windowed - 50$. (Total 158.5$).

- SeaSonic S12II-620 620W - 111.5$ + Cougar MX330 Full-Windowed - 50$. (Total 161.5$).

- SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold SSP-650RT - 117$ + Cougar MX330 Full-Windowed - 50$. (Total 167$).

 

 

Why cougar cases? the cheapest cases the store have to offer (50$<)

 

So, Mostly considering the PSU brands, building, parts and capacitors quality which combination should I get?

 

Parts specs:

Cougar Archon , Cougar MG110-W, Cougar MX330 Full-Windowed.

Antec NE650M, Antec VP650PM, Antec EA650G PRO

Corsair CX550M, Corsair CX650M

SeaSonic S12II-620, SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold SSP-650RT

 

Sorry for long post or bad english, thanks !!

[comicsansms]

CX550M/650M or the Seasonic SSP-650RT and whatever case you prefer.

[HKZeroFive]

The Corsair CX550M should be fine.

 

On a side note, why the i5-7400/7500? You'd be better off with a Coffee Lake chip or a R5 1600 instead.

[xDoron22]

5 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

The Corsair CX550M should be fine.

 

On a side note, why the i5-7400/7500? You'd be better off with a Coffee Lake chip or a R5 1600 instead.

Coffee lake cpu's mid range motherboards (B370) are not out until Q1 2018 and the Z370 cost too much..

R5 1600 cost 280$ here in the store, the R5 1400 however cost about 236$, and I prefer intel cpu for that price point.

11 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

CX550M/650M or the Seasonic SSP-650RT and whatever case you prefer.

Thanks, both of you. i will consider the cx650 or the 650rt

[HKZeroFive]

3 minutes ago, xDoron22 said:

Coffee lake cpu's mid range motherboards (B370) are not out until Q1 2018 and the Z370 cost too much..

R5 1600 cost 280$ here in the store, the R5 1400 however cost about 236$, and I prefer intel cpu for that price point.

Would still get the R5 1400. Frametime consistency, or 0.1% and 1% minimums, should be better on the R5 1400 than on the i5-7500. Plus, there's no point in investing into a "outdated" platform such as Kaby Lake.

[DocSwag]

For psu, I suggest the cx550mthe CX550m

[xDoron22]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

For psu, I suggest the cx550mthe CX550m

You are the third person to suggest the cx550m psu, will this be enough for the 770?

The recommended psu from nvidia is 600w, and i know that wattage is not everything but still, will it last?

5 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Would still get the R5 1400. Frametime consistency, or 0.1% and 1% minimums, should be better on the R5 1400 than on the i5-7500. Plus, there's no point in investing into a "outdated" platform such as Kaby Lake.

kaby lake is already outdated? didn't kaby lake and ryzen 5 both was released in Q1-2 of 2017?

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, xDoron22 said:

You are the third person to suggest the cx550m psu, will this be enough for the 770?

The recommended psu from nvidia is 600w, and i know that wattage is not everything but still, will it last?

kaby lake is already outdated? didn't kaby lake and ryzen 5 both was released in Q1-2 of 2017?

Nvidia likes to recommend above what you actually need. The 770 is only a 230w card; unless you're using more power hungry CPUs (8700k, X series CPU, threadripper, etc.) that are OCed you're not gonna exceed 550w.

 

Kaby Lake was around the turn of the year; it recently got replaced by coffee Lake.

[TVwazhere]

5 minutes ago, xDoron22 said:

You are the third person to suggest the cx550m psu, will this be enough for the 770?

It's a really solid unit, and for the money, you cant beat it in it's class (in terms of overall quality)

[HKZeroFive]

7 minutes ago, xDoron22 said:

kaby lake is already outdated? didn't kaby lake and ryzen 5 both was released in Q1-2 of 2017?

It's "outdated" in the sense that it's replaced by Coffee Lake. And especially for the i5 range, the Ryzen 5 processors are a better choice in comparison.

[xDoron22]

9 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

It's "outdated" in the sense that it's replaced by Coffee Lake. And especially for the i5 range, the Ryzen 5 processors are a better choice in comparison.

Oh.. yeah i know about coffee lake, thought you meant something else..

btw I know amd changed a lot in the recent years but I was always afraid of using their cpu's and gpu's.

Their products had really bad name of overheating and such..

Anyway I'm going to watch some benchmarks and compression videos on youtube between the two, You might change my mind (: 
 

16 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

It's a really solid unit, and for the money, you cant beat it in it's class (in terms of overall quality)

Thanks! I will probably go for the cx550m.

[STRMfrmXMN]

3 hours ago, xDoron22 said:

Oh.. yeah i know about coffee lake, thought you meant something else..

btw I know amd changed a lot in the recent years but I was always afraid of using their cpu's and gpu's.

Their products had really bad name of overheating and such..

Anyway I'm going to watch some benchmarks and compression videos on youtube between the two, You might change my mind (: 
 

Thanks! I will probably go for the cx550m.

If the Ryzen CPU is the same price then there's legitimately no reason to get a quad-core i5.