Do I need more power?

Felipe Naressi

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* EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC (x2) 2 way SLI
* EVGA SuperNova 850 P2 80 PLUS platinum @ 850 W of power
* 16 gigs of Ram Viper running @ 1600 htz (witch is weird because on the memory sticks themselves it says that they are 2400 htz)
* EVGA Z97 FTW motherboard
* Intel i7 4790 @ 3.6 htz
* 120 gigs of SSD running Win 10 home edition
* 1 TB of western digital for mass storage
* Blue Ray disk reader and writer
* 2 120 mm green LED fans
* 2 140 mm fans (1 LED and 1 Not LED)
* CPU water cooler Corsair hydro series H55

First of all thank you for taking the time to read this.
So, judging from the rig above do I need more power? The reason I ask is because I am getting very mixed numbers on FPS while gaming in 4K. I'd say average is 25 though. I thought maybe it is the power. I don't know. What do you all think?
 
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Rest assured you have plenty of power and a very high quality power supply. Good to go, no worries.
Enable XMP in bios to get your ram to run at proper speed and turbo the cpu.

Felipe Naressi

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Hey "Archaic59" (cool name by the way) thank you for replying. Thank you for answering this question it has been concerning me. Also, what is XMP? and does my motherboard in particular have such a feature? It is the EVGA Z97 FTW motherboard. I did take a look into the RAM and I found a way to make it run at the proper speed (while on my BIOS), however when I do set it to 2400 htz the computer does not start. You seem to be very knowledgeable on this matter, would you mind answering me this one too? Please and thank you again.
 
XMP is "Extreme Memory Profile". Many brands of ram are tested beyond the default speed settings they are allowed to run at. These settings are stored in bios.
Look for XMP in your bios. There may be more than 1 profile for different speed settings. Enabling it will overclock the cpu and memory for better performance. I'm not familiar with EVGA bios so you'll have to look for it or consult your manual.
 

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Well, it looks like the motherboard I have sucks because it allowed me to do so (get the speed up to 2400 htz) but the computer did not start. So I gave up on it. Also, I started this whole question here because I'm concerned I am not getting the best out of my SLI. I have 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC running on SLI and I am getting an average of 30 fps (on a good day) for modern titles on 4K. I don't quite know what I am doing wrong. Maybe my set up just ins't good enough.