Originally Posted by
IronyTaken
500w is plenty they use that as a minimum but really it's quite enough unless you are packing 12 fans.
Also having higher wattage doesn't mean the PSU is better quality.
I could purchase a 500w PSU that is much better than an 800W one.
And the CPU you purchased is not worth it if you only use it for regular tasks and games.
You don't really get much performance gain compared to the 4 core Phenom II CPUs.
It would have been better for you to buy a similar priced i5 2500k which will perform better in games and have great overclocking potential.
8 gigs of RAM is overkill.
No game needs it.
by the time a game needs 8 gigs the RAM you purchased will be obsolete by years.
It would have been better to purchase 3 sticks of 2gig ddr3 RAM and set them up in triple channel using the i5 2500k.
Also I would purchase two separate hard drives and put them in RAID 0 configuration.
This would have been my advice.
I am not ignorant when it comes to this so don't pass it off like that.
