PC Peripherals please suggest a good SMPS/PSU for home use (with 3 HDDs, 2TB+3TB+500GB)

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haiprazzad

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Q: What is your budget?
3k-5k

Q: What is your existing hardware configuration (component name - component brand and model)
CPU - Intel Pentium 4 630
Motherboard - Gigabyte G31M-ES2L
GPU - Integrated
RAM - Transcend 2X1GB PC2-5300
Monitor - Samsung Syncmaster Monitor 17"
SMPS - Zebronics-450W
HDD- Seagate 3TB, Seagate 2TB and seagate 500GB(currently my system is not recognizing if I connect more than 1HDD at a time, thus want to upgrade my PSU)


Q: Which hardware will you be keeping (component name - component brand and model)
everything except for SMPS

Q: Which hardware component are you looking to buy (component name). If you have already decided on a configuration then please mention the (component brand and model) as well, this will help us in fine tuning your requirement.
SMPS and GPU
SMPS - I want to connect all 3HDDs at a time and may be a small GPU
GPU - I play games occasionally, suggest me a low range GPU (I play FPS games mostly, liked farcry 1 and Project IGI2 very much, want to play similar games)

Q: Is this going to be your final configuration or you would be adding/upgrading a component in near future. If yes then please mention when and which component
I might upgrade my monitor for HD viewing


Q: Where will you buy this hardware? (Online/City/TE Dealer)
secuderabad
Open to online purchase

Q: Would you consider buying a second hand hardware from the TE market
GPU-Yes
SMPS-No


Q: What is your intended use for this PC/hardware
Watching movies/serials
Browsing
Occasional gaming



Q: Do you have any brand preference or dislike? Please name them and the reason for your preference/dislike.
Open to all, provided good after sales service

Q: If you will be playing games then which type of games will you be playing?
have little idea on recent games, I played farcry1 and Project IGI2


Thanks in advance for all your suggestions

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I have a Frontech Saturn cabinet and Microtek 800VA double battery UPS, forgot to mention in my earlier post. Sorry about that
 
I have looked around and found from this site that 329Watts is recommended for my configuration so [/URL] am planning to buy Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK 430 Watts PSU I think it will support all my HDDs and may be basic GPU too. Anybody who has some understanding on this, please shed some light and let me know if this is a correct choice.
shall I buy this from Flipkart or goto CTC, Secunderabad to save some bucks
 
hey mate, i'm thinking of buying the same smps, i just hv the doubt if it will support my motherboard , As i just came to know that my mother board has a 4 pin Atx connector and when searched on google what is Atx_cpu 4 pin connector then came to know that it was used in old motherboards , now i got doubt in my mind that the smps has a 4 pin Atx connector or not :(

the Smps is very good heard from many ppl but if anyone knows much about smps and motherboards can they pls tell me if the smps will support all my motherboard connections pls , my motherboard is intel 2400 sandy bridge
 
@Arjun, thanks for the reply

will I be able to place this corsair SMPS at top part of cabinet. as my cabinet dont have the facility to fit at bottom part. I believe I can rotate the SMPS by 180° and fit it upside down at the top part of the cabinet. pls let me know if this will work and if it works will it cause any troubles with air flow, I only have one fan on CPU hot sink.
 
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I tried to fit my current SMPS upside down and noticed that the screw holes wont match. Good thing I didnt buy a new SMPS yet.
what are my options guys, buying a new cabinet is the last thing I want to do, just for the sake of working with all my HDDs at a time.
 
my bad, looking at the pictures of it got me confused as the fan was show on the top part.
anyhow bought it for Rs.2450/- (Arun computers, CTC, sec)
connected it, now able to access all my HDDs at same time.
thanks for the suggestions guys
 
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