Looking for a ~450watt 24/7/365 PSU

[karl_eller]

Alrighty, so I'm going to be building a Media PC/Cruncher in the next little while, and I'm looking for a decent PSU.

The hardware specs are:
Q6600 B3 (probably at around 3.0 GHz)
2 Gb RAM
eVGA 680i A1 (overkill for a media PC, but it's what I've got spare)
HD3850 256mb or similar (to handle HD and BlueRay decoding)
1+ 500 Gb HDD (data storage)
TV Tuner Card

Now along with pulling duties as a movie/music server, and recording/playing HD TV, it'll also be running Boinc WCG 24/7, so the CPU is going to be pretty much fully loaded all day. Which means that the PSU being used needs to be able to handle that load and not flake out or die on me.

My initial thoughts is a Corsair 450 Watt PSU. It's got enough juice to handle the load, is pretty cheap (AU$100), and Corsair has a reputation for making high-quality PSUs.

So would that probably be my best choice for PSU? Or do you have anything else to recommend?

Eller

[XRTweaked]

I've owned two of the OCZ GameXstream 700w psu's so far and they rock. For the price, they're as good as anything else on the market, and strong enough to handle SLI and plenty of peripherals. :cool:

[karl_eller]

Except I don't NEED a PSU that can handle SLI and plenty of peripherals. It's a media PC/Cruncher, so aside from a GPU for handling decoding, the only thing with a real power draw is going to be the CPU. The GPU is only going to be a 3850 (or lower, if ATI release something like a 3450), and as for peripherals, it'll be a couple of HDDs and a DVD drive or two.

Hence me asking for something in the 450 Watt range.

Eller