Is this a good PSU?

[Sa1tama]

Hi! 

I am planning to build a new system soon ( specs below ) but i haven't decided on a Power Supply yet. I was thinking about Corsair VS550, since it has good reputation.

So i am looking for a PSU that supports water cooling ( AIO for now but i could make a custom loop in the future...

 

Specs:

Mobo: Gigabyte Z97X Gaming G1

CPU: i5 4460k ( for now )

GPU: GTX 1060 6gb ( haven't decided the brand yet )

Ram: 16gb (2x8gb 2133mhz)

Case: DeepCool Earlkase RGB

Cooling: DeepCool Maelstorm 240T ( not fully decided )

Storage: 1Tb + 500Gb sata HDD & 60gb M.2 SSD

PSU: depending on your suggestion

[Sakkura]

Corsair may have a good reputation in general, but VS is their cheapest line of PSUs and rather low quality. I'd suggest a CX550 instead.

[Firewrath9]

no, the corsair VS series is old and isn't good. i would get a TX550M or a TX650m, or if you dont want to spend as much, a CX550M.

[seon123]

No, the VS550 is pretty crap, especially for the price. 

With a 1060 system, just get a good 450W PSU. Since a custom loop costs so much (why would you cool an old I5 and a 120W GPU?), I'll take that to mean that you can afford a decent PSU. Formula Gold 450W, Straight Power 11 450W, Whisper M 450W, RM550x or Dark Power Pro 11 550W. 

[jiyeon]

I would go CX550M instead, I have a 450W version of the CX lineup, it's nicely-built.

[PlayStation 2]

Eh. 

For the price, a lot of people would recommend a CX550M. I'd go straight overkill for a nicer PSU though, but that's just me.

[STRMfrmXMN]

4 hours ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

Hi! 

I am planning to build a new system soon ( specs below ) but i haven't decided on a Power Supply yet. I was thinking about Corsair VS550, since it has good reputation.

So i am looking for a PSU that supports water cooling ( AIO for now but i could make a custom loop in the future...

 

Specs:

Mobo: Gigabyte Z97X Gaming G1

CPU: i5 4460k ( for now )

GPU: GTX 1060 6gb ( haven't decided the brand yet )

Ram: 16gb (2x8gb 2133mhz)

Case: DeepCool Earlkase RGB

Cooling: DeepCool Maelstorm 240T ( not fully decided )

Storage: 1Tb + 500Gb sata HDD & 60gb M.2 SSD

PSU: depending on your suggestion

I kinda wanna go over the poor handling of money in your idea here.

 

One, the VS550 is not a great PSU. The Corsair CX450/CX450M are much better and I would happily recommend them. Also, there's no i5 4460K.

 

Two, if your CPU is an i5 then it makes zero sense to put an AIO on it, let alone even a very high end air cooler. You can cool that thing just fine with something like a Cryorig H7.

 

Three, why do a custom loop on a system that will cost as much as the entire loop? You want to watercool hardware once you have the most badass hardware possible. It makes no sense from a thermal standpoint why you would want to do a loop on that system.

 

Four, why get a 60 GB M.2 SSD? I doubt that a 60 GB drive is NVMe, so in this case you're paying a fair bit more for a form factor that isn't granting you anything but poorer heat dissipation. A 120 GB SATA SSD would make a lot more sense, something like this. And if you were buying it thinking it would be faster because it is NVMe, keep in mind that NVMe is only useful if you have a blazing fast SSD on a system with a ton of CPU cores that is doing very storage-intensive applications. Fast NVMe drives are not what should be on your mind with a system like this until you get yourself something like an 8700K. And besides, on Haswell your PCIe lanes are severely hampered by an NVMe SSD and the platform limits the speed of an SSD in the M.2 slot drastically.

 

OK, now that that has been said and done, I do hope you take the time to read what I wrote.