Antec strives to put environmentalism in the foreground with its 380 W PSU EA-380D Green. In addition to the PSU's green color scheme, Antec tries to "green down" the packaging. For example, there is no bundled power cord, something Antec justifies as an ecological decision given that customers can use a power cord from an old PSU. Most PC enthusiasts will have many of these cords laying around, but novices may not.

Another area where Antec pinches pennies could be the 80 mm fan, which is quite unique not only because it is smaller, but also in that blows air out of the PSU instead of sucking air out of the computer case like it's the case with PSU models that utilize a 120-mm fan. Antec's number of connectors is sufficient, though the cables might be a bit on the short side. The ATX cable is the only one wrapped up into a round cable sleeve, and the PCIe connectors are 6-pin.

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4)-12 V+5 Vsb20 A20 A17 A15n/an/a0.8 A2.5 AIndividual OutputRow 3 - Cell 1 Row 3 - Cell 2 Row 3 - Cell 3 Row 3 - Cell 4 Row 3 - Cell 5 9.6 W12.5 WRail UtilizationSysSysCPU And VGACombined Output115 W336 WTotal Continuous Output380 WPeak Output430 W

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I'm currently looking to buy a PSU and I know I need around 260w, although the price range I'm looking at, the best rated one is the Antec EarthWatts Green. PSU's are a serious deal, therefore I don't really want to skimp on performance, I may be OC'ing as well so having a bit more juice should be fine. Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Tips? Anybody got/had Antec EarthWatts Green and want to give me some info?

Thanks for all of your help,

Chris

P.S I have a list created on PCPartPicker so here's the permalink if you want to view the setup I'm looking at buying: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C2sBdC

I was going to put this-but I DONT NEED any advice on my build.

Thanks.

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Hi,
I'm currently looking to buy a PSU and I know I need around 260w, although the price range I'm looking at, the best rated one is the Antec EarthWatts Green. PSU's are a serious deal, therefore I don't really want to skimp on performance, I may be OC'ing as well so having a bit more juice should be fine. Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Tips? Anybody got/had Antec EarthWatts Green and want to give me some info?
Thanks for all of your help,
Chris
P.S I have a list created on PCPartPicker so here's the permalink if you want to view the setup I'm looking at buying: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C2sBdC

Link isn't working but just to be safe and future proof I would get a 450w psu atleast.

Since the differnce is usually about 10 bucks.

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Link isn't working but just to be safe and future proof I would get a 450w psu atleast. Since the differnce is usually about 10 bucks.

Remove the space at the at of the link <_<

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C2sBdC

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Hi,
I'm currently looking to buy a PSU and I know I need around 260w, although the price range I'm looking at, the best rated one is the Antec EarthWatts Green. PSU's are a serious deal, therefore I don't really want to skimp on performance, I may be OC'ing as well so having a bit more juice should be fine. Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Tips? Anybody got/had Antec EarthWatts Green and want to give me some info?
Thanks for all of your help,
Chris
P.S I have a list created on PCPartPicker so here's the permalink if you want to view the setup I'm looking at buying: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C2sBdC

I don't know the purpose of your build but if it's gaming I would get a i5 and a way better gpu and atleast a 450w psu.

Also 4gb of ram isn't really going to cut it these days.