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real.geizterfahr: Stay away from PSUs from companies that only sell top-notch gamer hardware (like EVGA - they're selling 450W PSUs for over 100 Euro). They're ridiculously overpriced. Otherwise: just get a 650-750W 80+ Bronze PSU. They're pretty affordable. It's a bit more than you need, but most PSUs are more efficient when they don't run at their limit. Corsair, Cooler Master, Sharkoon and NOX (my 800W NOX is doing its job for eight years already) offer pretty good value for a good price. Thermaltake is a bit more expensive, but if you can find a good offer they're a pretty solid choice.

edit: All PSUs above 450W should come with a 6 pin and a 8 pin connector. No need for that much power when you can't connect anything with your PSU ;)
I'm not an expert on this, but this sounds reasonable. I've had good experiences with BeQuiet! PSUs and coolers too.
Thanks for your replies. I skimmed through the posts here before going to the electronics store that I usually use (Komputronik, for anyone wondering). That particular one had only four different models available, only two of which had enough wattage, and I just wanted to get it over with so I ultimately didn't really have much of a choice. One was some cheaper 550W PSU from Corsair, the other one a rather pricey 600W PSU from be quiet!. I really just wanted to be on the safe side and and went with the 600W one, just for the sake of being at least somewhat above what is the recommended minimum for my graphics card, especially taking into account that I have more components inside my PC than the average user and may upgrade yet again in the near future (although it turns out that the power usage of the 10xx series seems to be lower than for my particular card).

Anyway, so I ended up getting a Pure Power 10 from be quiet!. The user reviews that I've seen online were very positive, it is indeed quiet and it's modular so so it was super easy to connect and there's not much of a mess in my PC now. In the process of installing it I almost broke my PC but everything's fine now. I finished another mission in Company of Heroes 2 on highest settings (which was impossible with the old PSU) and did not run into any issues so I guess mission accomplished.

Thanks again for your advice, folks!

Edit: Oh yeah, and I chose tburger's answer as the solution because going modular is pretty much the best lesson I've learned here. :D
Post edited February 03, 2018 by F4LL0UT
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F4LL0UT: Edit: Oh yeah, and I chose tburger's answer as the solution because going modular is pretty much the best lesson I've learned here. :D
Hey! I suggested BeQuiet! just few minutes ago!!!


;-)

Glad it worked out for you... Hope it helps.
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F4LL0UT: Thanks for your replies. I skimmed through the posts here before going to the electronics store that I usually use (Komputronik, for anyone wondering). That particular one had only four different models available, only two of which had enough wattage, and I just wanted to get it over with so I ultimately didn't really have much of a choice. One was some cheaper 550W PSU from Corsair, the other one a rather pricey 600W PSU from be quiet!. I really just wanted to be on the safe side and and went with the 600W one, just for the sake of being at least somewhat above what is the recommended minimum for my graphics card, especially taking into account that I have more components inside my PC than the average user and may upgrade yet again in the near future (although it turns out that the power usage of the 10xx series seems to be lower than for my particular card).

Anyway, so I ended up getting a Pure Power 10 from be quiet!. The user reviews that I've seen online were very positive, it is indeed quiet and it's modular so so it was super easy to connect and there's not much of a mess in my PC now. In the process of installing it I almost broke my PC but everything's fine now. I finished another mission in Company of Heroes 2 on highest settings (which was impossible with the old PSU) and did not run into any issues so I guess mission accomplished.

Thanks again for your advice, folks!

Edit: Oh yeah, and I chose tburger's answer as the solution because going modular is pretty much the best lesson I've learned here. :D
Sorry, must have missed that in my post just before tburger :op
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nightcraw1er.488: Sorry, must have missed that in my post just before tburger :op
Oh, sorry, not sure who to "give" the solve to I skimmed through the replies again and his popped out, kinda missed that you mentioned it just before him. Here's a rose: ----'--,--@
There's something to be said, too, about location of the plug. My current PSU doesn't fit in the case properly, so i have the case open partially just so there's enough room for the cable to go through the hole and inside to connect to the PSU, which pushes it back which keeps it from closing.
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kohlrak: There's something to be said, too, about location of the plug. My current PSU doesn't fit in the case properly, so i have the case open partially just so there's enough room for the cable to go through the hole and inside to connect to the PSU, which pushes it back which keeps it from closing.
Well, I made sure the PSU is for ATX cases and it did indeed fit like a glove.
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kohlrak: There's something to be said, too, about location of the plug. My current PSU doesn't fit in the case properly, so i have the case open partially just so there's enough room for the cable to go through the hole and inside to connect to the PSU, which pushes it back which keeps it from closing.
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F4LL0UT: Well, I made sure the PSU is for ATX cases and it did indeed fit like a glove.
Ah, ok. That's good. I was working with an old dell, and with a huge time limit (it was my server, so every second it was down was really bad).
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F4LL0UT: Well, I made sure the PSU is for ATX cases and it did indeed fit like a glove.
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kohlrak: Ah, ok. That's good. I was working with an old dell, and with a huge time limit (it was my server, so every second it was down was really bad).
Yeah, OEM machines frequently have PSU's with non-standard form factors. But if the case is meant to take an ATX supply, any ATX supply should fit.