PSU with enough connections?

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LordJezo

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What power supply do I need that has enough connections? I have been looking around and it seems everything's all split up.

Here's what I will need to power:

2 ATA hard drives.

1 non SATA DVD-RW

PCI-e video card.

and then the basics like the MoBo and CPU.

Where do I even start? With my old PSU everything was the standard 4 pin ata kind of connections so there were more than enough plugs for everything, but it looks like all the new PSUs only have 2 SATA connectors on them.

Am I missing something about how new PSUs work? What if I wanted to have more than two SATA devices, maybe eventually 2 SATA HDDs and a SATA style optical drive of some sort. How'd that work?

I was looking at the XClio 450BL and it only lists such a limited number of connections.

1 x Main connector (20+4 pin)
1 x 12V (P4)
6 x peripheral
2 x SATA
2 x Floppy
1 x PCI-E

Maybe I just don't understand anymore since I have been out of the computer building side of things for a few years.

Can someone help me out?
 
Is this enough?

1 x 20+4-pin ATX
1 x 4-pin +12V
1 x 8-pin EPS12V
2 x PCI-Express
8 x 4-pin peripheral
2 x 4-pin floppy
4 x SATA

= Corsair 520HX

If you need more SATA connections the 620HX has 8 of them and 10 peripheral connectors
 
Oof.

So I am looking for a modular power supply? Is that the current hotness in the way things are going?

Is there anything good in the sub $100 category?
 
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