Help making my PC good for gaming....

[JEMC]

dreamcast210 said:

JEMC said:

The S is a designation of "low power", which is why is uses less power, but at the expense of lower frequencies.

But with your new power supply, you should be fine even with the most power hungry processors. Don't worry about TDP when searching for a new CPU.

Thanks for the info. I figured the GPU I ordered says it needs 400w. I got a 500w supply and wasn't sure how a higher wattage cpu would impact things.

If you want to feel safer, there are sites that calculate the Wattage your computer will use, to help you calculate what PSU you need, like this one from CoolerMaster: http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/

A PC with a GTX 960, 8GB of DDR3 and even an i7-2700K will use less than 400W. You'll be fine.