Does this PSU have good quality?

[Nicolas_21]

I was looking into PSUs, and I'm not sure if I bought a good one enough....

Corsair CX Series CX450M 450W ATX 12V 80 Plus Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply

 

[MeanMachine41]

Its a matter of opinion and depends on what your system specs are Nicolas.

The Corsair CX series are Bronze certified and really meant for general purpose PCs.
List you system specs and a recommendation will be made for Wattage and Efficiency.

 

[madmatt30]

The cx450m is one of the newer 2015 models & is good quality.
Its based off the gold rated RM series of psu's internally & has nothing in common with the older models.

So , yes you bought a good enough quality unit IMO.

As MeanMachine mentions , whether it's suitable for your system power wise depends wholly on what components you're running.

 

[Shaun o]

The brand and quality of the components used in Corsair Psu`s are good and reliable.
However as said by the prior poster to your question.

In order to get the correct power supply in the range of psu`s that corsair provide.
You need to post all of the specifications of the the hardware you have in your system Nicolas.

To make sure you get the right wattage output of the power supply to power all of the system components of your system reliably.

The Bronze, Sliver, and Gold certification you see, relates to how efficient the power supply can provide the system you have when at a high wattage demand from the system, and how much energy is produced as waste age.

As an example, a 3d graphics card at Idle, at windows desktop will require, and consume less electricity, or amount of watts from the power supply unit.

But as soon as you launch or play a game on your system such as a FPS like black ops III the card in the system requires more electricity and watts provided from the Psu fitted to your system.

So in order to work out the maximum wattage needed we need you to post a list of all the hardware of your system.
Graphics card used, and model number, The cpu you are using.
How many hard disk drives the system has, or SSD drives, and any other add in cards in the system to any drives connected to it via external ports from the system, such as external hard drive enclosures.

That way we can recommend the correct wattage of power supply you will need to keep the system stable.
when running it at all times.

 

[Nicolas_21]

You guys are absolutely right. My machine will have the following:

Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Rosewill RCX-Z775-LP 33.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
MSI Z170A SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card
Rosewill Galaxy-03 ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Fractal Design FD-FAN-SSR3-80-WT 20.2 CFM 80mm Fan

I'm not intending on OC

 

[madmatt30]

All good mate , 300w Max with those components.

There's still room for some oc'ing should you want to.

 

[madmatt30]

Why are you buying an 80mm fan ?? That case comes with 3x 120mm fans preinstalled .

Also id buy a better cooler than that mate.

A gammaxx 300 is only $20.

 

[Nicolas_21]

The 80mm dan is for a buddy...i didn't realize i added it, sorry about that. Is that cooler that terrible? Is my CPU gonna be in danger?? I bought it since I read some pretty good reviews, and its quite cheap.

 

[madmatt30]

In danger?? Probably not.
Running at 80c most of the time ?? Quite likely.

It states a 65w tdp mate so it's not what I'd be using for a 90w 6600k personally.

One of the sub $25 deepcools would be a far far better choice .