- May 5, 2017
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Hey guys,
Was wondering if you can help me out figuring this.
My specs are as follows:
-i5 2500k (stock atm)
-Radeon RX480 8GB MSI Armor (8pin)
-Asus P8p67 M-PRO motherboard
-4gb x2 Corsair Blue Vengeance 1600
-WD Velociraptor 1TB 10k
-Thermaltake TR2-600 PSU
-Hyper 212 EVO
So long story short I started overclocking up to 4.2-4.3... worked fine until I tried to O.C. the vid card and it started giving me instability. HD died too, so I purchased the WD one and a fresh Win 10 install. A friend suggested I should use a watt meter plugged to the PSU and to the wall to figure out if my PSU was bottlenecking my O.C.
So turns out that STOCK at idle my computer is consuming from 211w-230w which sounds like a whole lot, to makes matters worse firing GTA V means consumption goes up to 670w and GTAV with x42 overclock means it goes up to 780w !!!! This is w/o O.C. on vid card.
I fired up Prime 95 with the stock multi on FFT and it went from 211w>408w! Is my 2500k toast?
Just started o.c. it to give it a longer life. Aside from the current draw the computer works flawlessly.
And...how the heck does a 600 watt psu give out 780+ watts?
To make matters more confusing I tried the Intel Utility that calculates consumption directly on the CPU and it's perfect. 5.80w idle 74w full load. This just makes it stranger.
Thanks for any insight!
Was wondering if you can help me out figuring this.
My specs are as follows:
-i5 2500k (stock atm)
-Radeon RX480 8GB MSI Armor (8pin)
-Asus P8p67 M-PRO motherboard
-4gb x2 Corsair Blue Vengeance 1600
-WD Velociraptor 1TB 10k
-Thermaltake TR2-600 PSU
-Hyper 212 EVO
So long story short I started overclocking up to 4.2-4.3... worked fine until I tried to O.C. the vid card and it started giving me instability. HD died too, so I purchased the WD one and a fresh Win 10 install. A friend suggested I should use a watt meter plugged to the PSU and to the wall to figure out if my PSU was bottlenecking my O.C.
So turns out that STOCK at idle my computer is consuming from 211w-230w which sounds like a whole lot, to makes matters worse firing GTA V means consumption goes up to 670w and GTAV with x42 overclock means it goes up to 780w !!!! This is w/o O.C. on vid card.
I fired up Prime 95 with the stock multi on FFT and it went from 211w>408w! Is my 2500k toast?
Just started o.c. it to give it a longer life. Aside from the current draw the computer works flawlessly.
And...how the heck does a 600 watt psu give out 780+ watts?
To make matters more confusing I tried the Intel Utility that calculates consumption directly on the CPU and it's perfect. 5.80w idle 74w full load. This just makes it stranger.
Thanks for any insight!
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