Corsair Power Supply

[Richard N.]

i just bought the CORSAIR CXM series CX450M 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE modular PSU and i want to know if its a good one and wont fail me after a short amount of time. Thanks im new to the pc market.

[Daniel Z.]

if has a grey label yes

[genexis_x]

Yes it's good
What's your specs?

[Richard N.]

18 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Yes it's good
What's your specs?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HPDhNN i have ordered everything except the motherboard and ram.

[Richard N.]

50 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

if has a grey label yes

https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-CX450M-BRONZE-Haswell-Modular/dp/B01B72VXE6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Like this?

[Daniel Z.]

Just now, Richard N. said:

https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-CX450M-BRONZE-Haswell-Modular/dp/B01B72VXE6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Like this?

the PSU is good but the storage is questionable, get an SL308 from SK Hynix in 250GB

[Richard N.]

2 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

the PSU is good but the storage is questionable, get an SL308 from SK Hynix in 250GB

elaborate on questionable

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Richard N. said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HPDhNN i have ordered everything except the motherboard and ram.

The mobo isn't good due to poor overclocking potential (only supports 65W TDP CPU)

 

HDD too small

[alexhelvetica]

2 hours ago, Daniel Z. said:

if has a grey label yes

All CX 450/550/650 (Great Wall; unnamed) and 450M/550M/650M (CWT; "Corsair Vengeance") have Gray labels.

 

CX 750 (Green Labelled: CWT; PUQ-B, Gray Labelled: Greatwall; unnamed) and 750M/850M (All CWT; PUQ-B) have green and Gray labelled versions, but either are good anyway.

 

CX 430/500/600/430M/500M/600M (CWT; DSA Series) will always have green labels.

 

CX 400 (Seasonic; ET) have no label, but you can essentially ignore them since they have been disconnected for 7 or so years. But they are okay units.

 

Asking what colour label is annoying and confusing. Please stop.

[Richard N.]

4 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

All CX 450/550/650 (Great Wall; unnamed) and 450M/550M/650M (CWT; "Corsair Vengeance") have Gray labels.

 

CX 750 (Green Labelled: CWT; PUQ-B, Gray Labelled: Greatwall; unnamed) and 750M/850M (All CWT; PUQ-B) have green and Gray labelled versions, but either are good anyway.

 

CX 430/500/600/430M/500M/600M (CWT; DSA Series) will always have green labels.

 

CX 400 (Seasonic; ET) have no label, but you can essentially ignore them since they have been disconnected for 7 or so years. But they are okay units.

 

Asking what colour label is annoying and confusing. Please stop.

jeez ok chill

[STRMfrmXMN]

8 hours ago, Richard N. said:

elaborate on questionable

Most HDDs of that capacity are painfully slow. Yours is no exception.

 

I'm going to go through all of the things that are wrong with this system and offer you a better parts list.

 

That CPU is fine, however the motherboard has terrible power delivery and I'd stay away from it. Having tried to use an i7 4770S on my B85M-DS3H which had a garbage power phase design that would throttle the CPU clock speed even when the CPU wasn't under tremendous load, I'd recommend you get something with, at the very least, a VRM heatsink.

 

You can spend less on an 8GB stick of memory.

 

You have a 250GB HDD and no SSD, nor enough storage to do much with. That hard drive you chose is going to be so painfully slow you'll want to tear your hair out when your brand-new PC is outpaced by a moderately cheap laptop.

 

You have a GTX 1070 and yet a tiny case with only one case fan for airflow, which will make your 1070 remarkably hot.

 

Your PSU is fine and should power a 1070 and 1600 with room to OC, but you probably could have gotten something with more output and not a sleeve-bearing fan. You focused all of your money on the 1600 and 1070 with no other hardware to support them. It's like buying a Lamborghini and then getting the cheapest insurance you can to cover it.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($58.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: PNY - CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($52.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Western Digital - RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card  ($367.57 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $889.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-03 12:41 EDT-0400

[Richard N.]

3 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Most HDDs of that capacity are painfully slow. Yours is no exception.

 

I'm going to go through all of the things that are wrong with this system and offer you a better parts list.

 

That CPU is fine, however the motherboard has terrible power delivery and I'd stay away from it. Having tried to use an i7 4770S on my B85M-DS3H which had a garbage power phase design that would throttle the CPU clock speed even when the CPU wasn't under tremendous load, I'd recommend you get something with, at the very least, a VRM heatsink.

 

You can spend less on an 8GB stick of memory.

 

You have a 250GB HDD and no SSD, nor enough storage to do much with. That hard drive you chose is going to be so painfully slow you'll want to tear your hair out when your brand-new PC is outpaced by a moderately cheap laptop.

 

You have a GTX 1070 and yet a tiny case with only one case fan for airflow, which will make your 1070 remarkably hot.

 

Your PSU is fine and should power a 1070 and 1600 with room to OC, but you probably could have gotten something with more output and not a sleeve-bearing fan. You focused all of your money on the 1600 and 1070 with no other hardware to support them. It's like buying a Lamborghini and then getting the cheapest insurance you can to cover it.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($58.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: PNY - CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($52.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Western Digital - RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card  ($367.57 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $889.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-03 12:41 EDT-0400

im sorry to say but so far ive bought everything except the motherboard and ram which i will change. At the moment i have 257 dollars to spend on a motherboard, 8gb of ram and an ssd and i will buy case fans if thats ok

[Richard N.]

3 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Most HDDs of that capacity are painfully slow. Yours is no exception.

 

I'm going to go through all of the things that are wrong with this system and offer you a better parts list.

 

That CPU is fine, however the motherboard has terrible power delivery and I'd stay away from it. Having tried to use an i7 4770S on my B85M-DS3H which had a garbage power phase design that would throttle the CPU clock speed even when the CPU wasn't under tremendous load, I'd recommend you get something with, at the very least, a VRM heatsink.

 

You can spend less on an 8GB stick of memory.

 

You have a 250GB HDD and no SSD, nor enough storage to do much with. That hard drive you chose is going to be so painfully slow you'll want to tear your hair out when your brand-new PC is outpaced by a moderately cheap laptop.

 

You have a GTX 1070 and yet a tiny case with only one case fan for airflow, which will make your 1070 remarkably hot.

 

Your PSU is fine and should power a 1070 and 1600 with room to OC, but you probably could have gotten something with more output and not a sleeve-bearing fan. You focused all of your money on the 1600 and 1070 with no other hardware to support them. It's like buying a Lamborghini and then getting the cheapest insurance you can to cover it.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($58.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: PNY - CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($52.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Western Digital - RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card  ($367.57 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $889.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-03 12:41 EDT-0400

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3yZ3F how about this since i havent bought ram, MOBO, or ssd yet and i need fans?

[STRMfrmXMN]

18 minutes ago, Richard N. said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3yZ3F how about this since i havent bought ram, MOBO, or ssd yet and i need fans?

Should work fine but if you're stuck with the Thermaltake case I'm not sure it even supports that many fans or if you need that many.

[Richard N.]

On 6/3/2017 at 4:50 PM, STRMfrmXMN said:

Should work fine but if you're stuck with the Thermaltake case I'm not sure it even supports that many fans or if you need that many.

http://www.thermaltake.com.au/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002584 it actually supports 5 fans total however im only going to be buying 3 b/c it comes with one.