Hello,
I recently put together the following gaming system:
-Core i5 4460
-Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H motherboard
-Crucial Ballistix Tactical 2x4GB
-Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD
-WD 500GB HD (SATA 3)
-Corsair CX 500W PSU (80+ Bronze)
I was planning to buy a GTX 970 down the road, getting by on integrated graphics until then. I checked PCPartPicker and all the components looked to play nice together (including the video card), with a wattage breakdown of 321. But a few days after I built the rig, an acquaintance mentioned he had a GTX Titan he could part with. I'm 99% sure it's this model:
http://tinyurl.com/nxfqlpe
Anyway he gave it to me in exchange for some work I did for him, so the price was as right as you get. My concern is, Newegg specifies "600 watt or greater power supply with a minimum of 42 amps on the +12 volt rail." My PSU specifies +12V@38A.
This guy is an IT pro and longtime system builder, he knows a lot more about this stuff than I do, and the machine he pulled the card out of had this 600W PSU:
http://tinyurl.com/mfqx528
...which shows two +12V rails @35A. He said he thought I'd be fine with my PSU. And when I added the Titan to my parts list at PCPartPicker, the build still looked compatible. So after some deliberation, I installed the card in my system, with my 500W PSU, and fired it up, and it seems to work fine. In fact, Far Cry 4 screams.
Is this too good to last? I'm loving the frame rates I've seen in my short test sessions, but what should I be watching out for--temperature spikes, smell of burning components, popping sounds? Do I need to monitor electrical activity and look for any worrying trends?
Or am I okay, because the power requirement is conservative? (Obviously I'm hoping for this outcome.)
I'm a little nervous and, as may be evident, I don't know much about volts and wattage.
Thanks for reading,
Rich
I recently put together the following gaming system:
-Core i5 4460
-Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H motherboard
-Crucial Ballistix Tactical 2x4GB
-Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD
-WD 500GB HD (SATA 3)
-Corsair CX 500W PSU (80+ Bronze)
I was planning to buy a GTX 970 down the road, getting by on integrated graphics until then. I checked PCPartPicker and all the components looked to play nice together (including the video card), with a wattage breakdown of 321. But a few days after I built the rig, an acquaintance mentioned he had a GTX Titan he could part with. I'm 99% sure it's this model:
http://tinyurl.com/nxfqlpe
Anyway he gave it to me in exchange for some work I did for him, so the price was as right as you get. My concern is, Newegg specifies "600 watt or greater power supply with a minimum of 42 amps on the +12 volt rail." My PSU specifies +12V@38A.
This guy is an IT pro and longtime system builder, he knows a lot more about this stuff than I do, and the machine he pulled the card out of had this 600W PSU:
http://tinyurl.com/mfqx528
...which shows two +12V rails @35A. He said he thought I'd be fine with my PSU. And when I added the Titan to my parts list at PCPartPicker, the build still looked compatible. So after some deliberation, I installed the card in my system, with my 500W PSU, and fired it up, and it seems to work fine. In fact, Far Cry 4 screams.
Is this too good to last? I'm loving the frame rates I've seen in my short test sessions, but what should I be watching out for--temperature spikes, smell of burning components, popping sounds? Do I need to monitor electrical activity and look for any worrying trends?
Or am I okay, because the power requirement is conservative? (Obviously I'm hoping for this outcome.)
I'm a little nervous and, as may be evident, I don't know much about volts and wattage.
Thanks for reading,
Rich
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