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Just some name suggestions:

• The Giantbomb Striders
• The Giant(or Bomb) Company
• Order of the Chat(ty) Dragon

Imagination isn't my strong suit, but maybe it'll give you some ideas.

I'm on Mindflayer, I'll probably come LOOKING FOR YOU guys if you make a GB Guild.

Sega and CA have made some bad decisions over the years, but I remain hopeful about them buying Relic Ent.

TR for LIFE!

Thank you guys.

@Eurobum: Interesting, should the Silver Power PSU that comes with the build whimper out I'll fall back on my trusty Mist PSU. Thank you for the recommendation though.

Thank you for your reply, the PSU I selected has alot of good user reviews atleast.

Only time will show if it's any good.

I'll be upgrading to W8.

Even if there's no significant performance benefit, I'll have to learn the ins and outs of the OS as all new PC we sell will start shipping with W8 soon enough.

Hail Fellow Duders of the PC forum.

Having been mostly out of the loop for the last few years (mostly due to being broke/"Self-employed") and more recently because I work as a Support Technician at Lefdal(Read DSGi), Performance hardware is a rarity in retail PC builds.

I was wondering what the general feeling is on the power consumption of modern gaming HW.

Take this build as an example:

MOBO: MSI Z77A-G45, Socket-1155

CPU: Intel® Core i7-3770 Processor

RAM: Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB

GPU: Gainward GeForce GTX 660Ti 2GB PhysX

HDD0: Intel® SSD 330 Series 120GB 2.5", 25nm

HDD1: Western Digital® Desktop Green 1TB

ODD: Sony Optiarc DVD±RW Writer, AD-5280S

PSU: Silver Power SP-SS500 500W PSU

Would that build work well(or at all) with just a 500W PSU?

PS. I have an 800W PSU to spare, so a unanimous NO! isn't a disaster ;)

The steam forum for this is nothing but people telling other people not to buy it. A QL to check if it's really that bad would be nice.

My Condolences duder, can't even begin to imagine what this must be like.