| oodles2do said: OK, taking on board what you've both said, the changes I've made are: Switch to a cheaper motherboard and stick with DDR3 RAM, Switch to 120gb SSD (I've got a 3TB external too already)
What do you guys think about the power supply? At the moment it's a Corsair 550W to future proof if I do ever decide to put a modest GPU in, is that overkill too? With the current setup 350W is fine, but I assume adding any GPU would push that over, 450W is also an option. |
Like Vivster said a h110 motherboard will do you fine, and you should be ok with DDR3 ram. You could probably drop to a single stick of 8gb ram instead of getting 16gb, I doubt you will need 16gb for anything you are doing, but incase you find you do, it's simple enough to just grab another stick, if you most likely find 8gb is more than sufficient for you then you've saved some cash.
As for the power supply the 550w is probably overkill for your needs, a 400w power supply will handle the PC even after shoving a GTX1070 in it, which isn't a modest gpu. the main thing is to get a good brand PSU, the cheaper ones can be noisy as hell. A Corsair Builder 430w would suit your needs nicely, but yeah 400w is enough.
