Adam wrote Eeesh. Your making it look like the PSU will blow up. OP, take a read. For $50, its not bad and will cope with the build fine. The CX750 is the better one of the bunch.

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Oh Sancty, I know what your trying to say, its not a great PSU, but its not terrible like your making it out to be so no need to go all super hero on me and write a ton of paragraphs.

It's a shit unit, that's just a fact. Just because some people own it and it works fine, doesn't mean it's good, or should be purchased, it should be avoided entirely. As I've shown, OP can get a significantly better PSU within budget, the CX750 absolutely does not belong in a rig that costs over $1k, at all. Suggesting so, is just silly. I'm absolutely not making out that it's going to "blow up", but it's still a shit quality unit, whether it blows up or not. There are a number of cheaper, better PSUs, like some units from Antec or EVGA.

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It's not good but okay I'd say that's fine especially for a fairly lower power system anyway you won't go over half usage.

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Helix-Nebula wrote Im gonna stick with the shitty psu beacuse I used the same one back in 2012 and it still works fine today.

That would be stupid, and makes no sense. The CX750 is a terrible PSU, and should not be purchased.

This is what you should be getting;
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Again, I asked you to clarify the budget, but you didn't, so I had to assume. What I suggested is still cheaper than what you were looking at though, and is better, with more storage.

Not fighting with you but I will make this clear, in the original post I had ask for recommendations to switch parts for cheaper meaning, keep the retaliative performance but swap some of the parts cheaper ones that will not effect performance, Also this is not cheaper than what I have if you looked at the updated one, it comes out to 1150 with tax included. Only benefit from the one you just linked is the cheaper case. Please tell me how this is stupid to get the cheaper PSU if it supplies the correct amount of power to all of my parts and the one that i currently have from 4 years ago still works fine and provides adequate power?

Helix-Nebula wrote Not fighting with you but I will make this clear, in the original post I had ask for recommendations to switch parts for cheaper meaning, keep the retaliative performance but swap some of the parts cheaper ones that will not effect performance, Also this is not cheaper than what I have if you looked at the updated one, it comes out to 1150 with tax included. Only benefit from the one you just linked is the cheaper case. Please tell me how this is stupid to get the cheaper PSU if it supplies the correct amount of power to all of my parts and the one that i currently have from 4 years ago still works fine and provides adequate power?

How is $1142 not cheaper than $1150? Get the cheaper motherboard and RAM if you want. The HDD and SSD are larger, because a 1TB HDD is pretty minimal these days, as is a 250GB SSD. You clearly don't know enough about PSUs. Just because a PSU might work, doesn't mean it is good. Just because you've used a CX unit and had no issues, doesn't mean they're good. They're not, and since you're buying new parts, it should be avoided, much like any bad quality components. There are cheaper PSUs than the CX750 that are still better quality, but considering you have the budget for a better PSU, you should definitely get it. A PSU is not a component to cheap out on.

Here, you just want it cheaper, but with the same performance, get this;
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Sanctorum wrote

Helix-Nebula wrote Not fighting with you but I will make this clear, in the original post I had ask for recommendations to switch parts for cheaper meaning, keep the retaliative performance but swap some of the parts cheaper ones that will not effect performance, Also this is not cheaper than what I have if you looked at the updated one, it comes out to 1150 with tax included. Only benefit from the one you just linked is the cheaper case. Please tell me how this is stupid to get the cheaper PSU if it supplies the correct amount of power to all of my parts and the one that i currently have from 4 years ago still works fine and provides adequate power?

How is $1142 not cheaper than $1150? Get the cheaper motherboard and RAM if you want. The HDD and SSD are larger, because a 1TB HDD is pretty minimal these days, as is a 250GB SSD. You clearly don't know enough about PSUs. Just because a PSU might work, doesn't mean it is good. Just because you've used a CX unit and had no issues, doesn't mean they're good. They're not, and since you're buying new parts, it should be avoided, much like any bad quality components. There are cheaper PSUs than the CX750 that are still better quality, but considering you have the budget for a better PSU, you should definitely get it. A PSU is not a component to cheap out on.

Here, you just want it cheaper, but with the same performance, get this;
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Well if you read what I said the amount you posted does not factor in tax which is roughly an extra 80 that being said my build is roughly 80 dollars cheaper because when you add the tax it will come out to more than 1200 dollars. Also being said I am aware that you have more space but it is unneeded due to the fact with all the programs i have on a 250gb ssd, only takes up 100 gb and 1tb is enough for the amount games he will be downloading if he runs out of room than he can delete larger games that he does not play. When I gamed I never went over 1tb for the library of games I had and he will not be doing videos. I understand that it may not be "good" but is it going to fry my components, i assume not. Its only job is to provide power then why does it matter if the PSU doesnt provide full power at all time, if at all times the components will receive the correct amount of power from what it does put out?

Helix-Nebula wrote Well if you read what I said the amount you posted does not factor in tax which is roughly an extra 80 that being said my build is roughly 80 dollars cheaper because when you add the tax it will come out to more than 1200 dollars. Also being said I am aware that you have more space but it is unneeded due to the fact with all the programs i have on a 250gb ssd, only takes up 100 gb and 1tb is enough for the amount games he will be downloading if he runs out of room than he can delete larger games that he does not play. When I gamed I never went over 1tb for the library of games I had and he will not be doing videos. I understand that it may not be "good" but is it going to fry my components, i assume not. Its only job is to provide power then why does it matter if the PSU doesnt provide full power at all time, if at all times the components will receive the correct amount of power from what it does put out?

If you'd actually read the link I had posted, maybe you'd understand.
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Like I said, if you wanted it a little cheaper, you can get the cheaper motherboard and RAM. The PSU is not a component you should cheap out on. Just because the CX750 may work, doesn't mean you should buy it.

The build quality of CX units is bad, they use cheap capacitors. Sure, there are some area's where the CX units are mediocre, as opposed to horrendous. However, even some no name brand PSUs that are terrible, are mediocre in certain circumstances, doesn't mean you buy a $12 PSU.

"So all of these reasons are why the CX series are so cheap they are not all great and are fairly mediocre in most areas.
Does this mean that the CX is crap / trash / junk / garbage or any other such things NO! they are NOT! that bad they are just mediocre, but you should buy something better if you building a gaming and/overclocking rig and you can afford it otherwise you are just being cheap.
On the other hand if you building a very basic machine for office work web browsing media viewing and other light task a CX is perfectly FINE!."

Can we stay on topic and help the OP instead of taking stabs at others opinions?

Thanks

OP- I'm literally just trying to stop you buying a bad quality PSU. Your fiend is looking for a new PC, and there's absolutely no reason to buy a sub par component new, just because it might work alright. You clearly have around $1200 to spend(or your friend does). You can easily get a cheaper case, and cheaper components elsewhere to spend a little more on the PSU, buying a sub par PSU is not a very smart decision. If you're buying a budget PSU, Antec/EVGA have good budget units, that are better than the CX series and cheaper usually. However, you should look at something at least semi-decent. Microcenter even have some of Corsair's better AX, and HX series PSUs refurbished for fairly low prices. What's the point in buying a cheap PSU just because it might work, and risk having it fry the rest of your components, which yes, a bad PSU could easily do. Also, just because that hasn't already happened, or may not happen, doesn't then mean the CX750 is worth buying, it's still sub par.

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Anyway, I'm done with this. I'm literally just trying to help people not waste money. At this point, you can waste your/your friend's money all you want, I don't care

Back where my reply originally was. Thank you very much.

Adam wrote Eeesh. Your making it look like the PSU will blow up. OP, take a read. For $50, its not bad and will cope with the build fine. The CX750 is the better one of the bunch.

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Oh Sancty, I know what your trying to say, its not a great PSU, but its not terrible like your making it out to be so no need to go all super hero on me and write a ton of paragraphs.

Right so the thread is basically OP asking if he can build his friend a PC with the same components but save a bit of money and no one actually saves money? This is multiple hundreds less even including taxes and shippings (and slight pricing variances) and will be near identical performance.

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P.S. CX Series to people who "like" PC's are bad, but for people who literally want something which will do the job then they are fine. They won't care about the sub par build quality, lack of good braiding or slightly worse ripple and temp performance. Also you can make the argument that 750w is so much more than the system needs that it would never be taxed and not even have to break whatever sweat it could in the first place.