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    I am joining the PC Master Race

    Alas, I have completed ordering my parts. I planned on becoming a PC gamer back when next gen consoles were being released but my friends convinced me to stick to being a dirty console peasant. I have since sold the XB1 and have now put together a new build for a mere $820 CAD.

    The problem I have just discovered is I will be running an R9 280x with a 500w bronze power supply. According to Partpicker I will only need 440w for the build but I'm starting to wonder if I'm pushing it... Regardless, I guess I'll just wait a little to OC until I can pick up a new psu.

    Anyways. It will be a massive improvement on playing WOT on Wine with a macbook air at 25fps on bare minimum settings
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    #2
    Originally posted by 2ofEverything View Post
    Alas, I have completed ordering my parts. I planned on becoming a PC gamer back when next gen consoles were being released but my friends convinced me to stick to being a dirty console peasant. I have since sold the XB1 and have now put together a new build for a mere $820 CAD.

    The problem I have just discovered is I will be running an R9 280x with a 500w bronze power supply. According to Partpicker I will only need 440w for the build but I'm starting to wonder if I'm pushing it... Regardless, I guess I'll just wait a little to OC until I can pick up a new psu.

    Anyways. It will be a massive improvement on playing WOT on Wine with a macbook air at 25fps on bare minimum settings

    You are better of being over than cutting it close with 500W ma friend. I got a 800W psu sure is a bit of overkill kind of, but you may want to expand in the future and you want to have some wiggle room. When I upgraded to the I7 4770K I got on my main rig right now I just knew I wasn't gonna have a problem and I know when I get that 980 geforce to replace my 660 TI I wont have a problem either. You want to have that peace of mind.

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      Back when i was a PC gamer the amps on the 12v rail were more important than the wattage. You could have a 1000w PSU and it wouldn't power the top GPU's if there's wasn't enough amps.

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        Originally posted by Isaac Clarke View Post
        Back when i was a PC gamer the amps on the 12v rail were more important than the wattage. You could have a 1000w PSU and it wouldn't power the top GPU's if there's wasn't enough amps.
        I'll 2nd this^^^. Amperage is very important, as well as a quality, good name brand psu. Don't cheap out on a hi-power crap psu. It's the heart of your computer. Especially if you overclock.
        Last edited by jazluvr; 05-13-2015, 02:44 PM.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Isaac Clarke View Post
          Back when i was a PC gamer the amps on the 12v rail were more important than the wattage. You could have a 1000w PSU and it wouldn't power the top GPU's if there's wasn't enough amps.
          Yes goes without saying don't buy ****ty PSU for the love of God! It will save you from a world of hurt in the long run all for a bit more in the end could save you hundreds. The first one I ever bought many years ago was some no name chinese POS that after about a year randomly started emitting a wonderful burnt plastic smell, so lesson learned there thankfully didn't take anything with it like it has happened to many who have made that mistake before me.
          Last edited by DannYankee; 05-13-2015, 04:04 PM.

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            Originally posted by DannYankee09 View Post
            Yes goes without saying don't buy ****ty PSU for the love of God! It will save you from a world of hurt in the long run all for a bit more in the end could save you hundreds. The first one I ever bought many years ago was some no name chinese POS that after about a year randomly started emitting a wonderful burnt plastic smell, so lesson learned there thankfully didn't take anything with it like it has happened to many who have made that mistake before me.
            Yeah I picked up a Corsair Builder 80+ bronze certified psu. Not exactly the best but people seem to have no problem running r9 280x chipsets ands my build is pretty entry level so I'm thinking I'll be fine. Surprised your no name Chinese PSU lasted a whole year, and didn't kill anything else.
            Last edited by 2ofEverything; 05-13-2015, 06:23 PM.

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              #7
              Originally posted by 2ofEverything View Post
              Yeah I picked up a Corsair Builder 80+ bronze certified psu. Not exactly the best but people seem to have no problem running r9 280x chipsets ands my build is pretty entry level so I'm thinking I'll be fine. Surprised your no name Chinese PSU lasted a whole year, and didn't kill anything else.
              Corsair has been making pretty good psu's lately. I take it you have just 1 graphics card, right? How many watts + amps in 12v rail? Just curious. I love talking computers. I asked BPP to make a computer forum for anything that connects us to this site so we can help each other, but noooo...lol.

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                Originally posted by jazluvr View Post
                Corsair has been making pretty good psu's lately. I take it you have just 1 graphics card, right? How many watts + amps in 12v rail? Just curious. I love talking computers. I asked BPP to make a computer forum for anything that connects us to this site so we can help each other, but noooo...lol.
                Aw sorry man I'm not really sure, I'm pretty new to all of this. I'm sure if you check out the model I posted you can find out. Anyways... I got Everything but my motherboard and it's due to arrive tuesday

                I at least hope it gets here early Tuesday so I have a chance to play The Witcher 3, for now I have to sit here looking at a pile of parts that I can't do anything with...

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                  Corsair are a good brand for PSUs. I've got one right now and have had it for years, I also had one in my setup too. Had to get one for my old setup due to a faulty Hiper 530W (my mates also stopped working on him after a while too). Don't cheap out on PSUs, if they f up, they can potentially damage your mobo from what i've read...regardless they aren't that expensive compared to say a GPU/CPU and won't require changing that often either compared to those two parts. Usually by the time, your PSU dies if it even does, you'll need a new PC anyway lol.

                  I really want to play Witcher 3 myself but i've only got a 560ti. I'll have to get it on console.

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                    Originally posted by 2ofEverything View Post
                    Aw sorry man I'm not really sure, I'm pretty new to all of this. I'm sure if you check out the model I posted you can find out. Anyways... I got Everything but my motherboard and it's due to arrive tuesday

                    I at least hope it gets here early Tuesday so I have a chance to play The Witcher 3, for now I have to sit here looking at a pile of parts that I can't do anything with...

                    So how's your build going? You must have everything up and running by now? I'm really intrigued, seriously. I'd love to see the list of all your parts in "kinda" detail, We had a thread going about home theatre components awhile back, and it was very cool.

                    I'm on my 6th build. I have pc stuff laying all over the pc room. There's a path to the computer...lol.

                    I really wish we could have a forum for pc/home theatre/car audio.

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