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Which PSU for my setup?

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StarsFan4Life

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* Cooler Master Elite 330
* Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P motherboard
* AMD Phenom II Quad 940 Black Editon - Stock cooling
* 8GB G-Skill PC2-6400
* XFX Radeon 4870 1GB
* Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA II
* Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATAII
* Onboard LAN/HD Audio
* Logitech DiNovo Keyboard
* Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
* 2 X Yate Loon 120mm silent case fans
* 2 X Dell 23" S2309 W @ 1900 x 1080

As some of you know, I had a melt down of either my PSU or my old motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G motherboard) where either of them took each other out. Regardless, I have come to the conclusion that the motherboard was not the best motherboard for the setup, so I am replacing it today with the GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P. Now, some have said that the EA650 was either a bad PSU in the first place...or it is a good PSU and I got a bad batch. I RMA'ed the PSU last week and should be getting a replacement soon on it (as well as the motherboard, but I won't use it at all).

Should I continue to use the Antec EA650 650wt psu or upgrade to a better PSU? If so, which PSU would you recommend?
 
the Antec should be fine, you probably just got a bad component (either mobo or PSU, QA is not an exact science), or something beyond your control, like a power surge or similar (protip: you can't "see" these)

if you just wanna throw it all away out of paranoia, Corsair's HX 620W should be more than suitable for that box as well
 
yea that PSU is good!

im running:
MB: Asus M3A78-CM
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0ghz Overclocked to 3.8Ghz
Mem: 2x2GB (4GB) OCZ SLi DDR2-800
CPU COOLER: Tuniq Tower 120
Video: BFG GTX 285 OC+
PSU: ENERMAX Liberty 500W SLI/CROSSFIRE 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
Main HD: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM
HD2: Seagate 400GB 7,200 RPM
HD3,4: 2x Maxtor 250GB 7,200 RPM
Case: ThermalTake Tsunami Dream with sunbeam light system
OS: Windows XP PRO X64 Edition

and my psu does very good
 
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