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About to pull the plug

Sungaisu

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Edit: Pull the Trigger makes.. much more sense... My bad. Title fail.

My only concern is my Corsair 400w PSU

Current Setup involves
HD5770, 300gb Velociraptor, & 2x1TB Drives.

About to grab these off Amazon, I'm fairly confident it can power it all, but will there be room to overclock? Or should I look into grabbing a PSU too?

i7 2600k
ASUS P8P67
Corsair Vengence 1600mhz

Any quick help is greatly appreciated. Thanks fellas!
 
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Alright, pulling the trigger would make.. well.. much more sense.

The 5770 is pretty good on power, the 400w does a great job for what it really is. I've been able to overclock my current AMD quad to 3.5ghz from 2.9ghz just fine with a H70 cooling it.
 
Grab a new PSU as well. Go for $80 Antec's Truepower New 650W off Amazon.com
 
Grab a new PSU as well. Go for $80 Antec's Truepower New 650W off Amazon.com

I dont think that is at all necessary until OP upgrades GPU.. The Corsair 400w PSU is the original cx & its a great small PSU.. I have the same one powering my WHS.. & in the OP's case he is going from a 125w CPU at stock (which overclocked is more like a 140w CPU) to a much more efficient 95w CPU & even overclocked it shouldnt have near the draw of his current chip.

Now if upgrading the GPU at all I would say yes to a PSU upgrade simply off the basis that the 5770 is pretty efficient & I dont think any GPU's that would be of any real upgrade would be as efficient thus increasing the draw.
 
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