What Power Supply Should I Get?

[iAmHaydenn]

Hey guys.  I am planning to build a hackintosh/Windows PC in the next few months and I am wondering: which power supply should I get?  I was looking on PCPartPicker for reviews and a lot of the cheaper power supplys had bad capacitors and bad build quality.  I lowered my choices down to these few PSUs.  The EVGA 500W (80+ Bronze), Corsair CX500 and the Corsair CX430.  My build (according to PCPartPicker) will need 293W.  Which power supply should I go for?

 

EVGA 500W (80+ Bronze): http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11610AC5994 $55.37 CDN ($42.60 USD)

Corsair CX500 (80+ Bronze) http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11180AC1629 $74.54 CDN ($57.33 USD)

Corsair CX430 (80+ Bronze) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX41857 $59.99 CDN ($46.14 USD)

[79wjd]

What are the rest of your specs? 

 

None of those PSUs are particularly good (they're fine for extreme budget systems), but I would recommend anything from Tier 1 to Tier 3 from the PSU tier list in my signature. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

1 minute ago, iAmHaydenn said:

Hey guys.  I am planning to build a hackintosh/Windows PC in the next few months and I am wondering: which power supply should I get?  I was looking on PCPartPicker for reviews and a lot of the cheaper power supplys had bad capacitors and bad build quality.  I lowered my choices down to these few PSUs.  The EVGA 500W (80+ Bronze), Corsair CX500 and the Corsair CX430.  My build (according to PCPartPicker) will need 293W.  Which power supply should I go for?

 

EVGA 500W (80+ Bronze): http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11610AC5994 $55.37 CDN ($42.60 USD)

Corsair CX500 (80+ Bronze) http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11180AC1629 $74.54 CDN ($57.33 USD)

Corsair CX430 (80+ Bronze) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX41857 $59.99 CDN ($46.14 USD)

What are your specs?

[TheGhzGuy]

What is the budget as well?

 

[iAmHaydenn]

@djdwosk97 Here are the rest of the parts

CPU: Core i5 4460

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z97-SLI

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8 GB

GPU: GTX 950 SSC

Case: Corsair Spec-02

[iAmHaydenn]

@TheGhzGuy My budget is $80 CDN ($61 USD)

[79wjd]

3 minutes ago, iAmHaydenn said:

@djdwosk97 Here are the rest of the parts

CPU: Core i5 4460

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z97-SLI

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8 GB

GPU: GTX 950 SSC

Case: Corsair Spec-02

If you haven't purchased those parts yet, then I would do something like this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($51.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($32.98 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 470 4GB Red Devil Video Card  ($199.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Fractal Design Integra M 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $588.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-26 14:17 EDT-0400

 

 

[iAmHaydenn]

Are the parts Hackintosh compatible?  

[79wjd]

5 minutes ago, iAmHaydenn said:

Are the parts Hackintosh compatible?  

Everything is on the compatibiity list from TonyMacx86 with the exception of the 470. But they haven't updated the GPU support list to include Pascal or Polaris yet. Both will likely be supported, but for the time being if you want guaranteed support (and if you plan on gaming) then I would go with a GTX 960/970 as both options will be much better than a 950).

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($255.90 @ Vuugo) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1/3.1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($79.98 @ NCIX) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($39.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 470 4GB Red Devil Video Card  ($259.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ PC Canada) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Total: $772.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-26 14:22 EDT-0400

 

 

This one is a bit cheaper: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/mJC6r7

[iAmHaydenn]

Okay.

[iAmHaydenn]

I might go with an EVGA SuperNOVA 550W G2, as it is in the tier 2 of the PSU tier list.