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PSU is not where to skimp. Go on Youtube and search "Cheap PSU". There are plenty of low priced high quality PSUs. It's not where to save $5-$10.
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Everything can have problems though, I just bought components for a new desktop computer and got a very good, well liked, expensive, popular brand of PSU. I was a little shocked when it arrived and there was a large capacitor rattling around loose inside it. Didn't look like it had even a hint of solder residue on the two leads like it wasn't even soldered in place. Shocking there must not be any sort of quality control cause I'm certain a rattling power supply would have caught some attention. I tested it on an old known working system and it was certainly not working so sent it right back and bought a different brand.
HTPC 1 - AMD A8-3870K, ASRock A75M, Silverstone ML03B, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866, Crucial M4 64GB SSD
HTPC 2 - HP Stream Mini, 6GB Ram
unRAID 6 Server - Intel Celeron G1610, 20TB Storage
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Just bought a 128GB SSD for my new desktop system from amazon, bought it at 4am, at 9am the price had dropped and they wouldn't match the new price or let me return it because the order was still processing. Not a big fan of amazon these days.
HTPC 1 - AMD A8-3870K, ASRock A75M, Silverstone ML03B, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866, Crucial M4 64GB SSD
HTPC 2 - HP Stream Mini, 6GB Ram
unRAID 6 Server - Intel Celeron G1610, 20TB Storage
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I built almost the exact system 6 months so i will give my impressions.
my parts used where
ECS H61H2-M3(1.0) LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI Micro ATX $49.99
ECS NGT440-1GQI-F1 GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 $49.99
G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $22.99
Intel Celeron G530 Sandy Bridge 2.4GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics $51.99
CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 V2 (CMPSU-430CXV2) 430W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply $44.99
and i had a few 2tb drives laying around to use with the system for storage
anyway while the on-board intel grafics did work fine with anything i threw at it in MPC-HC
i had constant lock ups in XBMC, so i ended up just using the gt 440, solved all my problems. if it was not for the xbmc issues the intel grafics would
have been fine i think, i didnt have any high bitrate mkv's to to test, but standerd sized 1080p movies 10 to 18gb
would play fine, personaly i normally just download 720p versions around 5gb for my media center, any moive that i want
in high quailty i buy blurays anyway, and im over 800 movies in my bluray collection, my htpc is more for tv shows and
movies i dont care to own on bluray, if i could solve the xbmc problems, i would scrap the 440 in favor of noise reduction