Building computer, need help selecting PSU

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jrdemasi

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Hey. I'm building my first computer right now, and so far I've been reading an article and it's been a breeze. I picked out all of my components and would like to order them tonight. However, I don't know what PSU wattage I need, and I also don't know how to tell if I have enough plugs to plug into all of my fans and such.

Here are all of my components:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116056
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200015
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115040
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812270093
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151028
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136126
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130072
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220299
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ng=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084


Any Help is GREATLY appreciated, and I will definitely post back and do my fair share to join in the discussions and help out ;-)
 
The supply picked out is quite adequate while ceewi1 is the one that knows which Seasonic model would work the best. That's one of the better makes of supplies to note.

The two problems seen with the current selection are the cpu cooler and 4gb of memory for XP Home/SP2? Bad story there with the 3gb barrier on 32bit OSs. Besides the 3.2gb available for ram and the rest mapped out to hardwares one thing most don't realize when rushing at 4gb of memory is that games and apps were never written to run on systems with more then 2-3gb of memory installed.
 
Yes. Someone else pointed this out to me, and I was forced to change my selection to Vista Ultimate 64-bit. The excess memory isn't so much for all the gaming (though it helps) but I do a lot of graphic imaging as well, mostly on my iMac, but would like to have the option on the new computer as well. What is wrong with the CPU cooler?
 
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