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When purchasing a power supply, you need to consider the power output of the components you have (or plan to put inside) your PC. Your CPU, graphics card and hard drives will be the main power users, so get a power supply that matches the overall power output of your components.

For example, my PC has an Intel i7 3770K and a GTX680 (overclocked) which are fairly higher-end components, and the 650 watt power supply powers those and my 2 hard-drives adequately. If you have a very new processor and graphics card (intel 4xxx series or geforce 7 series for example), then it would probably be good to go 700 or above.

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