How Much Power Will I Need?

[Thesaffa]

hey guys,

building my first tower in a looooong time...

bit unsure as to how much power i might need for this system

motherboard: asus Z77 sabertooth
CPU: i7 3770K
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) Quad Channel DDR3 1600 MHz CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9
Video Card: asus 660TI 2 gig 192Bit
Cooling: Corsair H100

will i need more than 600wats for this?

 

[Smoblikat]

A nice 500w will be plenty.

 

[Ketchup]

A nice 500w will be plenty.

What he said. The only reason I went to 600 was an awesome deal on Newegg that day.

 

[lehtv]

Thesaffa where are you buying from?

 

[Thesaffa]

gamedude.com.au...just down the road from me... i got a thermal take power lite 600w psu sitting here..might get me started...not gunna do massive over clocking on the rig...just a bit...but spare money is hard to come by atm other wise id splash out on a 4K tower =\

 

[Thesaffa]

all im missing atm is a cpu psu and vcard and im good to go ill be getting that tomorrow

 

[lehtv]

Lite Powers aren't very good. Manufactured by Solytech (who?), no efficiency certification, 2 year warranty. In the GameDude online store, the selection is quite poor... I'd just get a Corsair TX650 or GS600, most likely. If you can find 500W Seasonics or Antecs in-store, go for one of those.

Regarding your other components:

If you are not overclocking that much, the H100 was a poor investment. The Sabertooth mobo is not worth what it costs, it's really just a 150 usd board with a thermal armor gimmick and a couple more years of warranty slapped on. Any chance you could return these so you could spend the money on something more important?

16GB RAM is overkill for gaming but fine if you edit HD videos or do something else RAM intensive.

If money is tight, it's fine to go for the 3570K instead of 3770K. Unless you frequently do heavily multithreaded productivity or something like that, you're unlikely to notice much difference.

Do you have a case?

 

[Thesaffa]

ok good to know about the lite power psu..

well i got the board for 200 from a friend un opened un used ...

wen i say over clockin id only do the cpu at 3.9gig?

vcard im not to worried about

and yes i edit HD vids and 3d model + play games not that u realy need anymore that 8 gig of ram for these new games and apps

my second question is....is onboard audio worth keeping or do i get a sound card?...ive forever used onboard

 

[Thesaffa]

oh and i have a corsair carbide 400R ? case

 

[lehtv]

well i got the board for 200 from a friend un opened un used ...

Yeah that's still a lot for a board. You can get decent SLI/Crossfire capable boards for as low as 139 AUD, see here

wen i say over clockin id only do the cpu at 3.9gig?

That's not overclocking. The CPU will run at 3.9GHz with boost by default on the stock cooler. The H100 can overclock it to something like 4.5-4.8GHz

my second question is....is onboard audio worth keeping or do i get a sound card?...ive forever used onboard

Depends on your speaker setup or headphones and how much you care about audio quality