- Feb 7, 2013
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Hi guys,
So a few years back I built my first gaming rig, it was small but economical and I'm using some of the original parts to this day. The only real problem I encountered was when my extremely budget 600w PSU melted. It had lost power a few times and 13 year old me couldn't figure out what was going on. I had figured that I wouldn't need more than like 575w but I had a dodgy cheap 600w PSU and a GPU with the words "Super Overclocked" in it's title. When it happened I got the shock of my life, it billowed black smoke and I had to live without a dedicated graphics card for a few months..
Now I've finally got some money and I wanna beef up what I have
I'm gonna buy a XFX AMD Radeon R9 280 ( http://www.dabs.ie/products/xfx-amd-radeon-r9-280-3gb-pci-e-3-0-hdmi-dd-black-edition-9BSX.html?q=Radeon%20R9%20280X&src=16 )
and an AMD FX-6350 ( http://www.dabs.ie/products/amd-fx-6350-am3--4-2ghz-14mb-125w-vishera-unlocked-six-core-processor-8NKH.html?q=AMD%20FX&src=16 )
However ever since that one incident I haven't trusted myself trying to figure out how much power I need out of a PSU so I use power supply calculators. I've used three calculators, all of which have given me hugely different results.
The Newegg calculator demands a painful 925w
The Asus calculator asks for a heavy 850w
And the eXtreme PSU Calculator gives a much more reasonable 706w
I have a Corsair 770w PSU. I don't have the money for a new one. Will I be okay with the new PSU and CPU? The eXtreme PSU Calculator initially suggested even less than 706w but I turned up TDP and Capacitor aging because why not?
I'd be really grateful for any insight on the matter, I'm pretty lost. I have a pretty mid range Asus motherboard, I use all 6 USB ports and would be using 3 monitors on the GPU, I'm buying an audio card and an SSD at some point (which would work in tandem with a 1.5tb HDD) I have about 5 120mm fans. Two sticks of 4gb standard DDr3 RAM, and a DVD-RW drive.
Thanks a lot!
Tadgh.
So a few years back I built my first gaming rig, it was small but economical and I'm using some of the original parts to this day. The only real problem I encountered was when my extremely budget 600w PSU melted. It had lost power a few times and 13 year old me couldn't figure out what was going on. I had figured that I wouldn't need more than like 575w but I had a dodgy cheap 600w PSU and a GPU with the words "Super Overclocked" in it's title. When it happened I got the shock of my life, it billowed black smoke and I had to live without a dedicated graphics card for a few months..
Now I've finally got some money and I wanna beef up what I have
I'm gonna buy a XFX AMD Radeon R9 280 ( http://www.dabs.ie/products/xfx-amd-radeon-r9-280-3gb-pci-e-3-0-hdmi-dd-black-edition-9BSX.html?q=Radeon%20R9%20280X&src=16 )
and an AMD FX-6350 ( http://www.dabs.ie/products/amd-fx-6350-am3--4-2ghz-14mb-125w-vishera-unlocked-six-core-processor-8NKH.html?q=AMD%20FX&src=16 )
However ever since that one incident I haven't trusted myself trying to figure out how much power I need out of a PSU so I use power supply calculators. I've used three calculators, all of which have given me hugely different results.
The Newegg calculator demands a painful 925w
The Asus calculator asks for a heavy 850w
And the eXtreme PSU Calculator gives a much more reasonable 706w
I have a Corsair 770w PSU. I don't have the money for a new one. Will I be okay with the new PSU and CPU? The eXtreme PSU Calculator initially suggested even less than 706w but I turned up TDP and Capacitor aging because why not?
I'd be really grateful for any insight on the matter, I'm pretty lost. I have a pretty mid range Asus motherboard, I use all 6 USB ports and would be using 3 monitors on the GPU, I'm buying an audio card and an SSD at some point (which would work in tandem with a 1.5tb HDD) I have about 5 120mm fans. Two sticks of 4gb standard DDr3 RAM, and a DVD-RW drive.
Thanks a lot!
Tadgh.
Unfortunately I took out my PSU to try and get the model, and it was not a Corsair at all, I bought it 2 years ago so my memory was faulted, it's a G7 Power Extreme 780w. Frankly it looks a little dodgy, it has very little in regards of things to identify quality with, and there are sparsely any reviews online, would you recommend buying a new PSU? If so could you suggest anything with some headway for future upgrades? I'm on a pretty tight budget but I'd much rather be safe than sorry after my previous experiences with small brand PSUs.. 
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