Power Supply Worries

[Guest]

I am soon building/buying parts for this PC:

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pf8N2R
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pf8N2R/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($176.69 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock B150M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($73.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: PNY Anarchy 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  ($189.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($35.49 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $558.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 18:23 EST-0500

The issue is, I don't have much money to spend on a PSU, and I'm looking to xfire later so I chose this one. However, I don't know much about power supplies, so I'm worried. Every guide says spend like £70+ which I just can't afford (I can hardly afford an i5). Should I be worried if I buy this? I'm probably fine with replacing with a better one in a couple years, before the warranty goes, but is that a bad idea?

Please help, I don't want my first build to blow up or something.

[Wolly9102]

3 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

I am soon building/buying parts for this PC:

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pf8N2R
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pf8N2R/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($176.69 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock B150M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($73.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: PNY Anarchy 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  ($189.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($35.49 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $558.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 18:23 EST-0500

The issue is, I don't have much money to spend on a PSU, and I'm looking to xfire later so I chose this one. However, I don't know much about power supplies, so I'm worried. Every guide says spend like £70+ which I just can't afford (I can hardly afford an i5). Should I be worried if I buy this? I'm probably fine with replacing with a better one in a couple years, before the warranty goes, but is that a bad idea?

Please help, I don't want my first build to blow up or something.

get a better one. this one is crap. it's tier 6 of 7 of the list found here

 

[Mr.Meerkat]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/FQ648d/corsair-power-supply-cp9020101na

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WmV48d/super-flower-power-supply-sf450p14xehx

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/nB3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12ii620bronze

 

Here are 3 of the best budget options  

 

edit: Here's another one

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/super-flower-platinum-king-450w-80-plus-platinum-power-supply-black-ca-055-sf.html

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Arjan W said:

get a better one. this one is crap. it's tier 6 of 7 of the list found here

 

*Tier 5, and any suggestions under £50 or preferably <40

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/FQ648d/corsair-power-supply-cp9020101na

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WmV48d/super-flower-power-supply-sf450p14xehx

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/nB3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12ii620bronze

 

Here are 3 of the best budget options  

 

I'll save a little on my motherboard I guess. No xfire :(. Any other acceptable ways to cut cost?

[Wolly9102]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

*Tier 5, and any suggestions under £50 or preferably <40

I think mr.meerkat's post wel help you enough

[stealth80]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

*Tier 5, and any suggestions under £50 or preferably <40

No its tier 6, the tier 5 is a 500w bronze

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

I'll save a little on my motherboard I guess. No xfire :(. Any other acceptable ways to cut cost?

What is your budget? 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

What is your budget? 

£550 is pushing it, but there's no point going lower on my CPU,case , RAM or HDD and if I did it on the GPU or motherboard xfire, performance and upgradability would plummet

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

No its tier 6, the tier 5 is a 500w bronze

Oops I grabbed the wrong one on pcpartpicker, I meant to get the 500b

[stealth80]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£168.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£74.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£47.54 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£44.05 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£184.26 @ More Computers)
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£23.04 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £590.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 23:45 GMT+0000

 

That's where I would go, maybe just save up a couple more weeks

[Mr.Meerkat]

8 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

£550 is pushing it, but there's no point going lower on my CPU,case , RAM or HDD and if I did it on the GPU or motherboard xfire, performance and upgradability would plummet

I would disagree with the xfire bit as a single GPU setup is usually better...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£165.00 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Patriot Signature Line 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£46.11 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£44.05 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£184.26 @ More Computers) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£19.15 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £546.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 23:46 GMT+0000

 

That's as cheap as you can get a system with a RX480, i5 6400 and a decent PSU  

 

6 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£168.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£74.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£47.54 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£44.05 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£184.26 @ More Computers)
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£23.04 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £590.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 23:45 GMT+0000

 

That's where I would go, maybe just save up a couple more weeks

If OP lives somewhere close to Edinburgh, I'd be up for upgrading his BIOS of a h110 motherboard so it actually fits within his budget  

 

edit: No, you can deduct 3 quid off if you were to use the platinum king so...  

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I would disagree with the xfire bit as a single GPU setup is usually better...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£165.00 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Patriot Signature Line 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£46.11 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£44.05 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£184.26 @ More Computers) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£19.15 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £546.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 23:46 GMT+0000

 

That's as cheap as you can get a system with a RX480, i5 6400 and a decent PSU  

 

If OP lives somewhere close to Edinburgh, I'd be up for upgrading his BIOS of a h110 motherboard so it actually fits within his budget  

That sounds great, but I'm not sure it would work. Im kind of young and I'm.not sure my parents would be too happy. Also is Yorkshire close enough

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I would disagree with the xfire bit as a single GPU setup is usually better...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£165.00 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Patriot Signature Line 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£46.11 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£44.05 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£184.26 @ More Computers) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£19.15 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £546.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 23:46 GMT+0000

 

That's as cheap as you can get a system with a RX480, i5 6400 and a decent PSU  

 

If OP lives somewhere close to Edinburgh, I'd be up for upgrading his BIOS of a h110 motherboard so it actually fits within his budget  

 

edit: No, you can deduct 3 quid off if you were to use the platinum king so...  

What's that last bit?

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

That sounds great, but I'm not sure it would work. Im kind of young and I'm.not sure my parents would be too happy. Also is Yorkshire close enough

Well when I said I'll be up for upgrading your BIOS, I was talking about how Kabylake CPUs won't work in x1xx motherboards without a bios update which requires a skylake CPU (which I have)  

 

Just clearing it up...

 

1 minute ago, Ethan Meskin said:

What's that last bit?

 

18 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

edit: Here's another one

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/super-flower-platinum-king-450w-80-plus-platinum-power-supply-black-ca-055-sf.html

Great little PSU for the money, performs well, decently built ect.  

[Guest]

I was only considering xfire as it seemed a pain to get rid of my old graphics card when I could get better performance without loosing my 480.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well when I said I'll be up for upgrading your BIOS, I was talking about how Kabylake CPUs won't work in x1xx motherboards without a bios update which requires a skylake CPU (which I have)  

 

Just clearing it up. 

I guessed, I just wasn't sure it would work out given the circumstances. Thanks for the offer though. My parents have a g4400 in their PC but I'm not sure they'd be comfortable with me borrowimg it, and I have a friend with a i5 aswell but again not too sure?

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well when I said I'll be up for upgrading your BIOS, I was talking about how Kabylake CPUs won't work in x1xx motherboards without a bios update which requires a skylake CPU (which I have)  

 

Just clearing it up...

 

 

Great little PSU for the money, performs well, decently built ect.  

I know nothing about modular psus, so do I need to buy any cables or are they included?

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

I guessed, I just wasn't sure it would work out given the circumstances. Thanks for the offer though. My parents have a g4400 in their PC but I'm not sure they'd be comfortable with me borrowimg it, and I have a friend with a i5 aswell but again not too sure?

But the 300MHz increase in base clocks and 200MHz increase in boost clocks...

Ah well, not much we can do  

 

To be fair, the 6400 is no slouch so you'll probably be fine  

 

1 minute ago, Ethan Meskin said:

I know nothing about modular psus, so do I need to buy any cables or are they included?

Nope, all cables comes with it.

The CX450M is a semi-modular PSU which means that some of the cables can be detached (well usually, it's just the CPU power cable, 24 pin that's not removable) meaning there's less cables that you have to manage.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

But the 300MHz increase in base clocks and 200MHz increase in boost clocks...

Ah well, not much we can do  

 

To be fair, the 6400 is no slouch so you'll probably be fine  

 

Nope, all cables comes with it.

The CX450M is a semi-modular PSU which means that some of the cables can be detached (well usually, it's just the CPU power cable, 24 pin that's not removable) meaning there's less cables that you have to manage.

Thanks, good to know. Also wouldn't the 6500 be the same price as that 7400 if you factor in the Mobo anyway. And it's certainly no slouch compared to my other possible picks, the FX 8350, the i3 6100 and the pentium g4560 w/ hyperthreading

[Mr.Meerkat]

3 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

Also wouldn't the 6500 be the same price as that 7400 if you factor in the Mobo anyway.

Yea...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Yea...

Well, thanks for everything. G'night

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

Well, thanks for everything. G'night

You're welcome