Corsair AX860i for i7 - 6850k @ 4.3Ghz,1.255V and Zotac 1080 AMP Extreme

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As it says in the title is the Ax860i enough for i7 6850k overclocked at 4.3Ghz, 1.255V and also running Zotac 1080 AMP Extreme one of the most powerful 1080s out of the box ... as recently i have had crashes in game which are not related GPU according to the event viewer, because the game gets stuck and the screen goes black .. my issue was resolved when i brought bios back to default and i ran unigene heaven for 4 hours non stop with no issues
 
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When stress testing the CPU it would probably be best to leave it for stress test over night using a program like Prime95 version 26.6. MAKE SURE YOU ONLY USE 26.6...
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Yes that is more than enough wattage wise, but unless you already have that PSU, I would get a different brand. And here are the reasons.

1) that power supply and the other ones of that type under 1200W have a known issue with randomly stopping and restarting the system, which affects a rather large chunk of all purchases (I estimate between 5-15%). Which wouldn't be as bad of an issue except....

2) they are either discontinued or soon will be. They are selling REFURBISHED unites directly from the Corsair site and many online vendors are out of stock of other models, I can't even find anything except the 860 on Amazon.

In addition one of these crapped out on a person from a review and they were forced to pay for the 1200 because when he tried to RMA his, Corsair said "we no longer make that power supply", so if it goes bad or you get a refurb model, which is likely going to have issues from what I hear, you are either going to have to pay extra for a 1200W, or get a new supply altogether. Waste of money.

I wouldn't get Corsair at all right now with what they have available, the HXi series has basic crap cabling that in many cases fit extremely tight and require a lot of manipulation to work. Look into Seasonic or an EVGA Supernova. That's what I am doing which sucks because I really had my heart set on that exact same PSU.
 
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actually my ax860i has no issues, sorry i did not update this post .. the reason my system was crashing and restarting was because my cpu voltage was set at 1.255 for 4.3 Ghz, in my case the voltage was very less as on 1.255V my cpu crashed @ 4.2ghz while stress testing with realbench .. .so making the story short a cpu intensive game like GTAV online was crashing after a couple of hours of gameplay as the cpu was getting very less voltage ... thanks for your concern but you have worried me, i made this post as i thought 860 watts was less for my system ...
 
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860W is much more than enough. But that PSU has a known issue doing that. If you've had it a while I wouldn't rule that out as a possibility. But much more likely your CPU is unstable and it is crashing your system. Overclocking is a tricky b*tch sometimes, in all honesty, your CPU should be able to handle just about anything without needing to be overclocked. I would set it back to normal settings and see what happens.
I have a 6700K i7 and it runs great without being overclocked.

But if you have been running it like that for a while and this is a new issue, I would slip in a new PSU and see what happens. Borrow a friends or something. A 500W should be plenty
 
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actually i have used this psu on my old system as well previously i owned a 6700k @ 4.5Ghz, 1.350v and a asus maximus viii extreme i had no issues like this, i just upgraded to a 6850K and a Asus rampage edition 10 mobo i only screwed up all this because i stress tested my cpu only for only an hour and thought this 4.3Ghz,1.255 was the perfect voltage at this clock but when i played a cpu taxing game my system crashed, but my issue was resolved when i increased the voltage and lowered the clock .. .right now my cpu is at 4.2Ghz,1.3v and in cpuz it shows it is 1.298V
 
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When stress testing the CPU it would probably be best to leave it for stress test over night using a program like Prime95 version 26.6. MAKE SURE YOU ONLY USE 26.6 IF YOU USE PRIME 95! Anything newer than version 26.6 uses AVX which makes Intel CPU's run hotter than they would normally.
 
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That's good that its not the PSU, gotta be the voltage settings then. Just keep tweaking i'm sure you'll get it right.

Good luck.
 
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