Com-pu-ter?

[jono035]

Oh, also, I think you might wanna chuck in more than $200 into powersupply+case, assuming case includes a fan or two, and the powersupply is ACTUALLY decent. Its one of those places you don't want to skimp out on money. Sure, you don't need overkill (if your going over 800W your probably overkill), but at the same time if you ave too little power your entire PC will suffer.

Roughly, from the stuff you've chosen I'd say at least a 600W, maybe a 500W but that could be pushing it. Wish I could find that useful calculator which had most major components, you'd put them in and it'd tell you minimum and recommended power supply

A $200 thermaltake case+PSU will get you a good power supply. You don't need a power supply with big numbers, you just need a good brand of power supply that is designed well. Getting a cheaper supply from a good brand is the best way to go, getting one of the 'fancier' ones just gets your more useless trimmings and fancy looks.

[Gremlin]

With the cost of hard drives these days why not consider 4 disks in a RAID 10 at least. It's obviously no substitute for backup, but it keeps you working for one of the more common computer problems, plus the additional speed won't go amiss.

Yep, raid 10 will give you a bit of redundancy while still giving you performance...

Wish I could find that useful calculator which had most major components, you'd put them in and it'd tell you minimum and recommended power supply

This one? http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

A $200 thermaltake case+PSU will get you a good power supply. You don't need a power supply with big numbers, you just need a good brand of power supply that is designed well.

Just about every power supply overstates what it can actually deliver, plus, the more heavily a PSU is loaded, the shorter its lifetime. Looks like he's going towards the upper end of the market, and the GTX cards aren't light on power.

FYI, for power specs, I'm running an Antec 850W, and its OK with Core i7, 6 hard drives, twin GTX260 etc, so you definitely don't need anything above that.

[Real_Wolf]

850W is probably overkill.

And hmm, seems powersupplies costs have come down since I last bought mine, when my old one died, maybe you could get decent for $200, of course depends on the case you want

[motorbyclist]

of course depends on the case you want

how so? if it's fitting a modern video card it's a given that it's a large case.... and aren't most PSUs all the same standard size anyway?

[Real_Wolf]

the PSU's are standard size, but there are some cases which can cost a bloody hell of alot, you can get cases with additional fans which will cost you extra, theres the position of extra usb ports/how many slots for your cd drives, etc

[jono035]

the PSU's are standard size, but there are some cases which can cost a bloody hell of alot, you can get cases with additional fans which will cost you extra, theres the position of extra usb ports/how many slots for your cd drives, etc

What you're basically saying is 'if you want to spend shitloads for no apparent reason on a case, you can'... The only real reasons used to be to get better quality cases (folded edges), weird configurations like full server-towers, toolless drive bays or fancy extras like side windows, side fans etc.

These days there is bugger all point, there is a heap of different cases on the market and (apart from the PSU) cost doesn't make much difference in terms of availability of features. $200 is a decent price for a good case and PSU. $40 is a cheap case and PSU. Anything more than $200 and you have to do some serious consideration of why you want to spend that much.

[Gremlin]

Power Supplies do indeed differ in size. Somewhere past 660W ish the standard size finishes, my 850W for example is longer than a "normal" power supply.

Next step up again, the 1KW is enormous, getting towards twice the length, and a conventional case (psu in back top) won't handle it, because of cables exiting supply, hard drive (or optical drive) at front top etc.

[Slyer]

Yes indeed, I had my 750 watt PSU in a microatx case. That was a bit of a squeeze.

[Rodney007]

Well my 30948230948 watt psu couldnt even fit in my house ,

thats how hardout i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gremlin]

Yes indeed, I had my 750 watt PSU in a microatx case. That was a bit of a squeeze.

Fool, you're supposed to get a bigger case!!

http://icute.com.tw/english/A18.html < now thats handy... lots of space for stuff. Worse is when you sit back... and the case looks rather full

[Rodney007]

way to much room, what goes down the bottom

[jono035]

I think all these PSU numbers are just silly, anything over 500W is probably un-needed with a decent supply with a decent distribution between 12v and 5v rails... Dissipating 500W is no mean feat without getting massively high internal temperatures...

Edit: I am of course assuming a relatively normal spec PC, i.e. single socket, single video card, a couple of hard drives and no in-built coffe-maker...

[Gremlin]

power supply goes on top of the hard drive bays, motherboard right up to the top

underneath the power supply... hard drives, I chuck 3-4 in there. In the front bays, fans, more hard drives, optical drives, and a floppy drive

[PirateJafa]

Spending money on a case is like spending money on clothes. A complete waste of time.

If you spend any more than $40 on a case, I will kick some bigass dents in it the next time I'm at your house simply for being a idiot.

[ital916]

Spending money on a case is like spending money on clothes. A complete waste of time.

If you spend any more than $40 on a case, I will kick some bigass dents in it the next time I'm at your house simply for being a idiot.

Dont be silly, you would break your legs kicking a computer case you mummy. Try kicking a pillow instead...more in your league