Just a power supply question.

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I AM LOOKING TO ADD ONTO MY PC ONCE I GET MONEY SOON, MY MAX CEILING I CAN PUT ON A UPGRADE IS $300. I WANT TO MAKE IT RUN THE FASTEST I CAN WITH JUST $300! PLEASE HELP!

I was looking for a good power supply that could supply up to or over 500W, Anything under $90 I can do. These are my current specs. (PS. If you could get like a 1000W under $90 or something it would be nice, I just need a reliable and durable power supply built to last.

AMD Athlon™ II X2 220 Processor
(2.8GHz | 1MB total cache)



Operating System4 : Genuine Windows? 7 Home Premium 64-bit



Chipset : NVIDIA? GeForce? 6150 SE



Memory5 : 2048MB DDR3 dual channel (2 ? 1024MB)
2 DDR3 slots total, 0 slots available (4GB maximum)



Hard Drive1 : 500GB 7200rpm SATA



Optical Drive : 16X DVD?R/RW SuperMulti
Write max: 16X DVD?R, 6X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 8X DVD?R DL, 5X DVD-RAM, 48X CD-R, 32X CD-RW
Read max: 16X DVD-ROM, 40X CD-ROM

Media Reader6 : Multi-in-one digital media card reader
CompactFlash? (Type I and II), CF+™ Microdrive, Secure Digital™ (SD), MultiMediaCard™ (MMC, RS-MMC), Memory Stick™ (MS, MS Pro), xD-Picture Card™ (xD)



Video : Integrated NVIDIA? GeForce? 6150 SE7

Audio : High-definition audio with 5.1-channel audio support
 
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I don't see a need for a new power supply unless you plan on doing other upgrades.

His current specs looks like one of the Compaq or Dell tower things, he probably has a 300W right now. You don't need a new power supply upgrade unless you plan on upgrading your graphics card etc.
 
If you need any kinda psu upgrade, I would highly suggest between 500-600w. I just got myself a new corsair 650w psu, but my machine is more of a gaming rig. Just my 2 copper coins on your situation...
 
I'm confused -- why are you needing to upgrade the power supply to 1000W on that rig?

Honestly, the PSU that comes in that should work more than fine for what is in it, and when you upgrade, nothing in your rig is going to wind up taking more than a 500-600W power supply unless you immediately grab a multi-GPU setup; by the looks at that rig, that won't be feasible until you get quite a lot of other upgrades done first. :o
 
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I am looking for around a 500-600 Watt, I am going to be doing some hard core upgrades on my beast.
 
It depends on what the upgrades are. Figure out the PSU last and the other upgrades first.
 
hec or go with an antec neo
and fyi the bigger the watts the more that power bill cost. plus u dont need 1000w u dont have the hard wear to consume it
 
ddily said:
hec or go with an antec neo
and fyi the bigger the watts the more that power bill cost. plus u dont need 1000w u dont have the hard wear to consume it
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No, no, no, and no.

The bigger the PSU is, the more power it is capable of supplying to the computer. However, it will only pull the power that is needed to run the computer. That means that if you have a 1000-watt PSU, and your computer only needs 300-watts, the PSU will only be drawing something like 330-360 watts at the wall (since no PSU is 100% efficient. The best out right now is capable of around 90% efficiency.)

Also, hec sucks. At that price point, a good Antec, Corsair, Seasonic, or Silverstone PSU will be 100x better.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

That Corsair unit will be way more than enough to run any computer up to the most demanding single GPU systems out there. You will not need 1000-watts EVER unless you are building a stupidly high-end system with 3 video cards.

Read reviews on the components you want. Then make an intelligent decision about whether it's a good purchase or not. And last but not least, never let someone tell you that hec is a good brand... because it isn't.
 
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