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It should be decent. Although 500 is much brighter. Plus, buying 50 is a good idea... Otherwise, when you go on to other mods, you'll have to buy again.... and again... and if you buy from mouser, shipping is like 5-10 bucks, and buying in bulk is always cheaper. Also, what happens if you attempt a mod, mess up too much, and waste all your leds? Then what do you do? From my experience as a noob modder, I bought 20 blue leds thinking "heh, I'll be fine..." and ended up blowing like 15 of them and in the end, I only finished one led swap. I suppose if you're tight on money or you just really don't want to buy so many leds, you could go to mouser.com, and do a quick search for the highest mcd leds. I'll warn you though, the highest for yellow is only 160, the highest for red is 300, and the highest for blue is like 130.
How do you blow up 15 leds? Most people don't do that even as nooby as can be. I never ruined a LED even as a noob, the only time i ever lost one is it if dropped of my desk.And honestly the higher MCD means squat, I have whites from mouser that where rated like 300 mcd and j.s2ghetto has 2300 mcd leds from ebay and they are like the same brightness. And If they where uber bright you wouldn't like them in the end, they burn your eyes..