- Jun 8, 2013
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So my dad's friend who's a computer guy came over to my house for a different reason but I had him look at the new additions I made to my XPS 8300. I added a Corsair AX850 PSU and a GTX 770 OC MSI TF graphics card. The back of the PSU seems to get very hot, and at idle my cards temps seem to be between 48-55 degrees celsius, and while playing World of Warcraft and Borderlands 2 the temps go between 65-75 celsius. The heat pipe by the 2 8 pin sockets seem to be VERY hot to the touch, and this computer guy is saying my temps should not be that hot, and that my PSU is being overloaded. He pointed this information on Amazon about the PSU, "850 Watts @ 50°C", and was saying how since I'm running the card near 70 degrees that my PSU wattage will not be at 850. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PJ6QW4/ref=pe_385040_30332190_pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1
The recommended PSU for this card was 600W, I thought 850 would be fine... I have an i7 2600 @3.4ghz not overclocked, 1 tb HDD hard drive, and 1 80gb HDD aswell, 1 dvd drive, and a Razer naga mouse and a shitty mac keyboard. Not sure if this information is necessary, but yeah. I was also wondering about the pins on this card. It came with 2 8 pin power cables that were very short, and I looked inside them and there was only 7 out of 8 pins on each cable. I ended up just using the 6x2 pin cables that came with my modular power supply, and plugged in 8 pins in the first socket on the card, and 6 on the second... is this okay? The card has been working fine. So did this guy really know what he was talking about, or are these temps okay? Should I get some more fans in my case, or possibly leave it open? Should I plug in the extra 2 pins? Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advanced. I'm really worried about ruining any of this new hardware I just invested in. I have read tons of stuff on the internet saying these temps are fine, so that's where the confusion comes in...
The recommended PSU for this card was 600W, I thought 850 would be fine... I have an i7 2600 @3.4ghz not overclocked, 1 tb HDD hard drive, and 1 80gb HDD aswell, 1 dvd drive, and a Razer naga mouse and a shitty mac keyboard. Not sure if this information is necessary, but yeah. I was also wondering about the pins on this card. It came with 2 8 pin power cables that were very short, and I looked inside them and there was only 7 out of 8 pins on each cable. I ended up just using the 6x2 pin cables that came with my modular power supply, and plugged in 8 pins in the first socket on the card, and 6 on the second... is this okay? The card has been working fine. So did this guy really know what he was talking about, or are these temps okay? Should I get some more fans in my case, or possibly leave it open? Should I plug in the extra 2 pins? Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advanced. I'm really worried about ruining any of this new hardware I just invested in. I have read tons of stuff on the internet saying these temps are fine, so that's where the confusion comes in...
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