Seasonic SS-500ET-F3 500W

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I have no clue how those rails, ampers stuff work.. when playing bf3, the wattage is in range of 200-250w, max what i saw was 270 ( msi kombustor running ) and league of legends with 140-190wats ( cpu at 4.3ghz, gpu at 1050/1420 ). by watt usage i would say i am ok, but as I said, since I have no clu,e maybe I am slowly burning my psu down and some day, it migh burn and take some components with it ( been using my rig for 8months now though, no problem so far )

for measuring i use solid dt22 device
 

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Intel i5 3570k@4.3ghz - cooler:Gelid solution tranquillo-rev2 - Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB - GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H - Intel Z77 - 1 Crucial m4 - 128GB - Corsair Vengeance Low Profile Black 8GB - Seasonic SS-500ET-F3 500W, OEM - CoolerMaster Elite 370
 

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it is not oced that much and i didnt touch voltage at all, everything at auto/stock settings, power consumption in windows set on balance. is the situation really that bad ?

 
if voltages are at stock then its good

u probably wont have power failure with the extra 10 amps of current ur psu supplies

a refference 7950 needs 25amps and 500w minimum supply
but ur being a vapor x u ll need 27 amps

ur power supply supplies 34amps of current so u will be fine there with a lil extra amps to power other things



 

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I hope I am fine, been using my pc since January 1st, so far no artifacts, no pc failures(only 1 blue screen in the very begining :D so far), no smell of burning from my case.. I ll drop some OC just to be sure though ( i oc my cpu via turbo, base clock at stock but will put turbo to 42 42 42 41, and gpu to 1000/1350 power management to +10% )