- Mar 25, 2013
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Sorry if this has been asked, I can't find anything.
I recently just put a PSU and GPU in a desktop. I'm curious to know how much wattage it's using. Mostly just to make sure it's supplying my GPU with enough power, but also I'm curious how much power I'm using.
Is there anything to monitor that?
My desktop:
i3 2130 3.4 GHz Dual Core
6 gb DDR3 RAM
XFX Core 7850 ZNL4 1gb DDR5 860MHz Core Clock 1200 MHz Memory Clock
Enermax 450W ENP450AST
Part of the reason I want to know is XFX recommends 500W PSU minimum for this GPU, and it kind of seems like I'm not getting as much performance as I should be. Maybe not, but for example, I can run Black Ops 2 multiplayer at rock solid 60 FPS (Vsync on), Crysis 3 on high, BF3 campaign on ultra, etc. But I've had some performance issues on BF3 multiplayer, Bioshock Infinite, and Crysis 1. All run at 1080p, typically ultra texture quality, 16x texture filtering, minimal or no AA, etc. Although this is a bad reference because few people probably know this game, but I can run iracing at ultra, 120 FPS or above without Vsync
Also, most games if I don't run Vsync I get hella screen tearing. that can't be right. It's still good how it is but I feel like it could be better without overclocking.
I recently just put a PSU and GPU in a desktop. I'm curious to know how much wattage it's using. Mostly just to make sure it's supplying my GPU with enough power, but also I'm curious how much power I'm using.
Is there anything to monitor that?
My desktop:
i3 2130 3.4 GHz Dual Core
6 gb DDR3 RAM
XFX Core 7850 ZNL4 1gb DDR5 860MHz Core Clock 1200 MHz Memory Clock
Enermax 450W ENP450AST
Part of the reason I want to know is XFX recommends 500W PSU minimum for this GPU, and it kind of seems like I'm not getting as much performance as I should be. Maybe not, but for example, I can run Black Ops 2 multiplayer at rock solid 60 FPS (Vsync on), Crysis 3 on high, BF3 campaign on ultra, etc. But I've had some performance issues on BF3 multiplayer, Bioshock Infinite, and Crysis 1. All run at 1080p, typically ultra texture quality, 16x texture filtering, minimal or no AA, etc. Although this is a bad reference because few people probably know this game, but I can run iracing at ultra, 120 FPS or above without Vsync
Also, most games if I don't run Vsync I get hella screen tearing. that can't be right. It's still good how it is but I feel like it could be better without overclocking.
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