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AlCarosse
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I'm building a secondary PC for living room, and need to decide on cheap but good enough psu, I'm on really tight budget.

The PC have i5 4460, H81 MBo, 2x4 GB RAM, seidon 120 liquid cooler, GTX 950 Armor from MSI, 1 SSD and 1 HDD.

Its written on GPU box that it requers minimum of 400W, will it actually be enough and does it mean 80+ gold 400W or just any 400W ?

Right now I'm considering between  Antec 550W 80+ VP550P  or SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold SSP-450RT.  I would prefer the second onethink SeaSonic is better, and Gold officiency is definitely better, but will that be enough?

Really cant decide.

 

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2 minutes ago, AlCarosse said:

I'm building a secondary PC for living room, and need to decide on cheap but good enough psu, I'm on really tight budget.

The PC have i5 4460, H110 MBo, 2x4 GB RAM, seidon 120 liquid cooler, GTX 950 Armor from MSI, 1 SSD and 1 HDD.

Its written on GPU box that it requers minimum of 400W, will it actually be enough and does it mean 80+ gold 400W or just any 400W ?

Right now I'm considering between  Antec 550W 80+ VP550P  or SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold SSP-450RT.  I would prefer the second onethink SeaSonic is better, and Gold officiency is definitely better, but will that be enough?

Really cant decide.

 

What it means by 400W is "don't put a firebomb PSU in your system that can only output 160W of its rated power."

 

The Seasonic will work.

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gold efficiency isn't any real cost saver, but decent companies tend to use better materials in building them, seasonic is pretty decent

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13 minutes ago, AlCarosse said:

i5 4460, H110 MBo,

Ummm..... That CPU is 1150, and that motherboard is 1151.  You must have a same chipset, unless those both won't work.

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz Processor | CPU Air Cooler:Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE | Motherboard:MSI B450M GAMING PLUS MATX AM4

Memory:G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2x16GB)  DDR4-3200 | GPU:PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 7600 8 GB Video Card

Storage #1:Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD (OS driver) | Storage #2: Silicon Power A60 1TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVMe (Anything else)

Case:Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L | Case Fan: 3x Thermalright TL-C12C (2x intake fans, 1x exhaust fan)

Power Supply:Corsair CXM (2015) 450W Bronze 80 Plus |OS:MS Windows10 (64-bit) | Monitor: ASUS VG275 27” 1080p 75 Hz FreeSync

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36 minutes ago, JoshB2084 said:

Ummm..... That CPU is 1150, and that motherboard is 1151.  You must have a same chipset, unless those both won't work.

Lol. You're right. I have an ASUS H81M-K. No idea why I wrote H110.

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