[solved] Need Power Supply suggestions!

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Building a system for my Bro.

Core i5 3570k
ASrock z77 Pro3
Gskills Sniper 2x4gigs 1600 cl9 low volt version
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclock
Seagate Barracuda SATA3 2TB 64mb cache
blueray drive
Aftermarket cpu cooler still being decided

So what sort of power supply would you suggest?
 
1st Tier
Corsair HX750
Seasonic X 750

2nd Tier
Corsair TX 750
XFX Cor edition 750

Grab the MSI Power Edition over the EVGA
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_660_Ti_Power_Edition/33.html

What I find surprising is that MSI's card is faster than many other GTX 660 Ti cards reviewed today even though it's running lower base and boost clocks. As you probably know, base and boost clocks on Kepler are marketing values - the actual card will run different clock speeds due to NVIDIA's Boost Clock Algorithm. It seems that MSI has added some secret sauce, no other board partner has, to their card's BIOS. One indicator of this is that they raised the card's default power limit from 130 W to 175 W, which will certainly help in many situations. During normal gaming, we see no increased power consumption due to this change. The card essentially uses the same power as other cards, but is faster - leading to improved performance per Watt.< br />Overclocking works great as well and reaches the highest real-life performance, despite not reaching the lowest GPU clock. This is certainly an interesting development. We will, hopefully, see more board partners pick up this change.

Seems Asus has followed suit.

http://www.techpowerup.com/171752/ASUS-Updates-GTX-660-Ti-DirectCU-II-BIOS-Enhances-Performance-and-Overclocking.html

As for the cooler ..... http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/phanteks_ph_tc14pe_cpu_cooler_review,14.html

Id do the Corsair low voltage, low profile RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233199

Seagate Barracuda has chinsy 1 year warrantry

Barracuda XT is fastest but has 3 year warranty
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148506

WD Black has 5 years
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792
 

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