Power Supply Surges

martijnf1

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Oct 15, 2012
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Hello,

i had loads of problems with an old setup of mine, so i upgraded almost everything. Except from the case, one hard drive and the power supply. With this setup, the power supply surges and the computer gets shut down by asus antisurge.

I have a Cooler Master Real Power M850, which should deliver 850 Watts and i'm really not hitting that. I never had trouble with my psu before. Everything is else is BRAND NEW.

Graphics cards are 2 months old, ram is a month old, motherboard, cpu, ssd and 3 TB HDD came in today.

Graphics: 2x evga Geforce 660 GTX Ti Superclocked (150 W max each)
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth z87
CPU: Intel 4770k (about 100 Watts?)
OCZ vector 128 GB ssd
2 hard drives (7200 RPM), 1,5 TB and 3 TB.
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133 MHz 9-11-10-30

Im running everything at stock settings.

The problem occurs when i try to refresh windows performance index, and when i enter my graphics card settings, or turn on SLI.

I assume that this power supply does not support the newer C - states, so maybe thats it? I really don't know.
 

TenPc

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Jul 11, 2012
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http://www.scan.co.uk/products/16gb-(4x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-dominator-platinum-pc3-17066-(2133)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-9-11-10-30-dhx-
The ram is Quad Channel and is not backward compatible for dual channel architecture so you'd need a motherboard with quad channel (4 slots per channel).

Using Quad Channel in dual archecture reverts to the lowest mhz ram specification, being 1333 mhz, and would render two sticks as unsuable, giving you 2 single channel ram modules not in accordance with dual channel architecture, meaning that your ram would be read as 2 single channel ram modules, 2 of them would be unread. Your ram would be seen in Windows as 16gb but would only register as 8gb usable, and would be slower than dual channel ram would have been.

Basically, you need to acquire Dual Channel ram for a faster performance ratio.