Power Supply help please.

Im building a single Video card Gaming Rig.
6870 Radeon
Amd fx 6100
Mini atx mobo
4mb StickO DDr3 Ram
One Dvd Drive
few fans

Will this power supply work for this system?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817159124
the 12 rail cable shows a ''+12V@34A''
I dont know if that means its decent, but I see people talk badly about the ones with +12V@15a power supply units.

This Power supply unit shows 41amps on the 12 connector cable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182199

But it cost 10 dollars more and I really dont have the extra 10 bucks, after blowing 10 extra bucks on each of the other parts, and I really cant afford to lower those either.

The first power supply should work well enough right?
if not, can anyone find a 40$ power supply to recommend? or cheaper X_X.

GRR. 6 dollar shipping on the first one, free shipping for the second one..

So for 4 dollars more.. I may as well get the second power supply listed right? X_X

Message edited by robcardiv on 02-15-2012 at 09:27:51 PM

Reply to robcardiv

$40 PSU, no way. What's your budget? FX-6100 is a big bottleneck. And those PSU companies are crap. It's like buying artificial Walmart kool-aid over regular kool aid. Actually only the 630w version of the rosewill PSU is good. I can fix you a much better build for the same price.

Message edited by samuelspark on 02-15-2012 at 09:54:55 PM

------------------------------ i5 2500k at 4.6GHz (1.376v) Hyper 212+ ,
Gigabyte Radeon 6850 (910/1150/1.149v) ,
MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) , 4GB DDR3 1600 G.Skill ,
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 , OCZ Fatal1ty 550w , Antec 300 Illusion
Reply to samuelspark

Try this 500W Corsair. It has a $10 off promo code making it $50, AND has a $10 rebate. It is a good unit, if nothing to write home about. And much more reliable than the others you were looking at.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139027

500W is the minimum recommended PSU rating by AMD for the 6870, but you might be able to make do with its little 430W brother, which has 15% off and $10 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] air%20430w

Check to see if the 430W might work, if interested
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

personally, I would get the 500W and call it a day, as it is already in your budget.

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Reply to aebome

aebome wrote :

Try this 500W Corsair. It has a $10 off promo code making it $50, AND has a $10 rebate. It is a good unit, if nothing to write home about. And much more reliable than the others you were looking at.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139027

500W is the minimum recommended PSU rating by AMD for the 6870, but you might be able to make do with its little 430W brother, which has 15% off and $10 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] air%20430w

Check to see if the 430W might work, if interested
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

personally, I would get the 500W and call it a day, as it is already in your budget.

Builder series is crap.

------------------------------ i5 2500k at 4.6GHz (1.376v) Hyper 212+ ,
Gigabyte Radeon 6850 (910/1150/1.149v) ,
MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) , 4GB DDR3 1600 G.Skill ,
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 , OCZ Fatal1ty 550w , Antec 300 Illusion
Reply to samuelspark

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182200

------------------------------ i5 2500k at 4.6GHz (1.376v) Hyper 212+ ,
Gigabyte Radeon 6850 (910/1150/1.149v) ,
MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) , 4GB DDR3 1600 G.Skill ,
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 , OCZ Fatal1ty 550w , Antec 300 Illusion
Reply to samuelspark

The Builder series certainly isn't top of the line, but it is just fine and more than capable. Both Jonnyguru ( http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.p [...] y&reid=239 ) and Hardware Secrets ( http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/art [...] eview/1284 ) gave the 430 version a pretty good review.

There is nothing wrong with going with the builder series, especially to stay in budget.

Message edited by aebome on 02-15-2012 at 10:19:57 PM

Reply to aebome

Rosewill RG630 is a much better deal. $60 for 630w and 50A.

------------------------------ i5 2500k at 4.6GHz (1.376v) Hyper 212+ ,
Gigabyte Radeon 6850 (910/1150/1.149v) ,
MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) , 4GB DDR3 1600 G.Skill ,
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 , OCZ Fatal1ty 550w , Antec 300 Illusion
Reply to samuelspark

I would agree with that. He just seemed pretty budget conscious.

Reply to aebome

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