Power supply for SG13B?

[aeroencychris]

Hi,

I'm going to be building in the SG13B soon and was wondering what the best PSU would be. I was looking at the Seasonic S12II but I feel like it might be a bit too big. Are there smaller/better ones? 500w+ please.

My parts list (if you care): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GRBCYJ

[STRMfrmXMN]

Hi,

I'm going to be building in the SG13B soon and was wondering what the best PSU would be. I was looking at the Seasonic S12II but I feel like it might be a bit too big. Are there smaller/better ones? 500w+ please.

My parts list (if you care): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GRBCYJ

That Seasonic is pretty small but non-modular. Will the EVGA GS 550W fit in your budget? It happens to be modular and really small.

[MourningSouls]

You could look at SFX/SFX-L units, Hardware Canucks used one in their Fractal Core 500 video. Seemed to make the whole process easier and tidier.

[aeroencychris]

That Seasonic is pretty small but non-modular. Will the EVGA GS 550W fit in your budget? It happens to be modular and really small.

• "The EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply length of 150mm exceeds Silverstone Sugo SG13B Mini ITX Tower Case maximum of 140mm."

[ChasingPluto]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/silverstone-power-supply-sstsx500lg

 

500w SFX-L

[aeroencychris]

You could look at SFX/SFX-L units, Hardware Canucks used one in their Fractal Core 500 video. Seemed to make the whole process easier and tidier.

Are they on PCPartPicker? I don't see any.

[aeroencychris]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/silverstone-power-supply-sstsx500lg

 

500w SFX-L

Bit too pricy for my budget. $70 and below shall we say?

[MourningSouls]

Bit too pricy for my budget. $70 and below shall we say?

PSU is the one area where you don't want to sacrifice.

 

At $70 there really isn't anything that would be ideal for your needs. Shallow depth, modular, and decent quality.

 

My recommendation, drop your SSD until another paycheck, buy the SFX-L PSU. It's quality, shallow and fully modular with stock short cables.

 

EDIT: Postponing the SSD purchase will also give you time to pick out a better one.

[aeroencychris]

PSU is the one area where you don't want to sacrifice.

 

At $70 there really isn't anything that would be ideal for your needs. Shallow depth, modular, and decent quality.

 

My recommendation, drop your SSD until another paycheck, buy the SFX-L PSU. It's quality, shallow and fully modular with stock short cables.

 

EDIT: Postponing the SSD purchase will also give you time to pick out a better one.

So no ATX PSU will work?

Also, what SSD would be better? I use an OCZ one but I heard the Kingston one was good too.

[MourningSouls]

So no ATX PSU will work?

Also, what SSD would be better? I use an OCZ one but I heard the Kingston one was good too.

Many will work, it's just far from ideal. If you were to buy a new 970, either Asus or Gigabytes ITX cards there wouldn't be an issue. It's just compensating for all the little issues that are present is not an easy thing to do with $70. There are a few units you could buy that would be shallow enough, and decent enough in terms of quality, but the cables would be an absolute mess and installation and maintenance later on would be miserable.

 

As for the SSD: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

[aeroencychris]

Many will work, it's just far from ideal. If you were to buy a new 970, either Asus or Gigabytes ITX cards there wouldn't be an issue. It's just compensating for all the little issues that are present is not an easy thing to do with $70. There are a few units you could buy that would be shallow enough, and decent enough in terms of quality, but the cables would be an absolute mess and installation and maintenance later on would be miserable.

 

As for the SSD: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

I already own my MSI 970 so I can't do that. If you had to give me an ATX PSU what would it be?

 

Also, what SSD would be better?

[MourningSouls]

So I'm going to just go ahead and call myself an idiot. When I read SG13, I visualized the SG08. It's a very different internal design. That said, everything but what I said about GPU clearance still holds true. Just read SSD/HDD anytime a previous post mentions the GPU.

 

The 140mm length of the PSU you mentioned earlier is the shortest you can get without going SFX, which I still recommend, though is less important now I'm actually thinking about the right case. Though my recommendation for modularity still stands as important as ever.

 

If you can stretch your budget a little bit this would be the best choice I can think of.

 

As for alternative SSD's, here are some options. (They may not be the best, but they should be better)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp900s3128gmc

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp600s3128gmc

 

 

Also, there may actually still be some clearance issues with your GPU, nothing a dremel and vacuum can't fix, but your 970 is 0.09 inches long than the case can officially hold. There is often some leeway with internal measurements to allow some extra movement during installation, but you may have issues.

[aeroencychris]

So I'm going to just go ahead and call myself an idiot. When I read SG13, I visualized the SG08. It's a very different internal design. That said, everything but what I said about GPU clearance still holds true. Just read SSD/HDD anytime a previous post mentions the GPU.

 

The 140mm length of the PSU you mentioned earlier is the shortest you can get without going SFX, which I still recommend, though is less important now I'm actually thinking about the right case. Though my recommendation for modularity still stands as important as ever.

 

If you can stretch your budget a little bit this would be the best choice I can think of.

 

As for alternative SSD's, here are some options. (They may not be the best, but they should be better)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp900s3128gmc

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp600s3128gmc

 

 

Also, there may actually still be some clearance issues with your GPU, nothing a dremel and vacuum can't fix, but your 970 is 0.09 inches long than the case can officially hold. There is often some leeway with internal measurements to allow some extra movement during installation, but you may have issues.

I'll go for that PSU I guess, but I'm not overjoyed with the price. *sigh* the price I pay for quality...

Also, do you know if the OZC ARC 100 is any good? That's what I use in my home PC, and it seems fine (and cheap).

As for the GPU, the case specs lie; tons of people have fit an MSI 970 in that case.

[aeroencychris]

So I'm going to just go ahead and call myself an idiot. When I read SG13, I visualized the SG08. It's a very different internal design. That said, everything but what I said about GPU clearance still holds true. Just read SSD/HDD anytime a previous post mentions the GPU.

 

The 140mm length of the PSU you mentioned earlier is the shortest you can get without going SFX, which I still recommend, though is less important now I'm actually thinking about the right case. Though my recommendation for modularity still stands as important as ever.

 

If you can stretch your budget a little bit this would be the best choice I can think of.

 

As for alternative SSD's, here are some options. (They may not be the best, but they should be better)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp900s3128gmc

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp600s3128gmc

 

 

Also, there may actually still be some clearance issues with your GPU, nothing a dremel and vacuum can't fix, but your 970 is 0.09 inches long than the case can officially hold. There is often some leeway with internal measurements to allow some extra movement during installation, but you may have issues.

Also, thoughts on this? I know it's semi modular but that's not a big deal to me.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-power-supply-rs550amaag1s1

[MourningSouls]

Also, thoughts on this? I know it's semi modular but that's not a big deal to me.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-power-supply-rs550amaag1s1

That will work very well.

 

As for the OCZ Arc, don't know anything about it.

[aeroencychris]

That will work very well.

 

As for the OCZ Arc, don't know anything about it.

Okay, thanks for the help