Build It Yourself: A Mini-ITX Gaming System For Just Over $500

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Well Techpowerup puts a 7750 @ about 45 watts full load.
Intel puts your cpu @ about 77 watts(less if you can undervolt it or just get lucky). Only about 22 watts over what Toms did(at least on paper. again, all cpus are a bit different.).
If you are going with an SSD, power consumption is nice and low and off the 5 volt rail not 12.
A desktop hard drive may be about 5-10 watts depending on model.
Chieftec Lists 168 watts on the 12 volt rails(no real reason they went with dual rails for such a low current rating)

You could end up very close to the power supplies limits if you are running a system hard(once you add in a board and fans ect). At idle it would never be an issue.

Most parts to do not use max power at all times, but I would recommend picking parts very carefully with such a power limit.
 
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