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Cancel the order immediately: That PSU is not good at all. IN fact, any Dell PSU would be better than that HEC PSU.
What is wrong with the HEC? How do I return it to TigerDirect if it is not damaged or malfunctioning ?
First of all, it's a HEC. HEC's good PSUs fall under their Cougar brand. The rest of their non-Cougar branded HEC PSUs are generally crap.
If it still uses nothing but 80mm fans, time to replace it as even a $43 case would probably outperform it in cooling while providing significantly easier cable management. In fact, just get a new case altogether since I'm willing to be this $43 case will be better:
Two reasons:
So you're planning on building this PC over time? How long will it take you to save up money for the CPU, SSD, PSU, and case?
The 660 would not be a good buy if you have a monitor with a really high resolution. Not to mention, it definitely won't be a good buy if you insist on using it with either the HEC 850W or the Antec BP550 PSU since the GTX 660 is a bit too powerful for those PSUs.
What's the max resolution on your monitor?
Ahh gotcha. Well to answer your question: AFAIK, Windows 7 is smart enough to recognize that it's being re-imaged onto a SSD. With that said, sometimes it glitches and doesn't recognize that it's on a SSD. Up to you want to take that chance.
Read what I just posted 7 minutes before your post: HEC's good PSUs fall under their Cougar brand. The rest of their non-Cougar branded HEC PSUs are generally crap.
As for the JG posts, the first link is unfortunately not every helpful since no one actually linked or showed that particular HEC PSU being properly tested. 80Plus testing is basically worthless as HardOCP has shown.
No one actually showed solid evidence that it wasn't junk either.
2) If you are located in the U.S, that question also allows us to figure out if there's a Microcenter location nearby and what sales tax we may need to factor in.
We generally don't recommend building a PC by buying parts over time as a part may arrive DOA and you may not be able to test or return that part within the allotted return period since you're waiting for an actual PC to test those parts in. In some cases, it also leads to people buying parts that aren't good at all since they saw that the part was on sale but it turns out that part was crap or unproven. Not to mention, the parts are just sitting there doing nothing and taking up space. So why buy those parts well ahead of the PC's actual build time.
This if it's still a good deal in September:
D&D Online doesn't look like a real GPU heavy game. So you'll be fine with the GTX 660. Although you could drop down to the $160 HD 7850 2GB and still be fine.
Considering that you have a bigger budget than that guy does, I'd still recommend getting the Seasonic PSU I mentioned earlier in order to increase the chances of the PC lasting longer.
See for yourself:
Not a mistake: Video card manufacturers assume that the user will be buying a crappy PSU. They fully understand that people won't take the time to actually research what makes a good PSU. As such, they greatly inflate the PSU requirements in order to increase the chances of that crappy PSU being capable of powering the system without harming the PC.
