How many amps?

[witeboy07]

does anybody know how many amps does a phenom 2 710 run at? stock..its 95watts but how many watts?

 

[dexter72209]

AMPS = Watts / Voltage

 

[WR2]

95 watts is the Thermal Design Power (TDP) - not the actual power consumption of the CPU.

 

[jsc]

I always estimate that a dual core CPU uses about 8 amps and a quad core uses about 10 amps. My estimates are based on what I measured on my E6600 and Q6600 systems.

 

[joefriday]

I know my undvervolted Celeron 420 uses about 10 more watts under load than at idle, measured at the plug. Since it is powered solely off the 12volt line, that's less than one amp after the efficiency of the PSU is taken into consideration. Given VRM losses, it's probably 6-7 watts of real increased power consumption under load. Whole rig idles at 40 watts with the hard drive on standby. 47 watts hard drive on. While gaming using IGP I'll see up to 60 watts consumed.

 

[witeboy07]

i found that it uses 178 under load..

 

[WR2]

Where did you find that?

 

[knotknut]

178 amps....?

 

[witeboy07]

i saw it on a overclockers review of the amd phenom 720..178watts guys not amps

 

[WR2]

178 watts - for the WHOLE system - not the CPU.

 

[witeboy07]

so i think whats stopping me is my psu..cus my pc crashes alot..doesnt restart..it just crashes while playing any game..my screen freezes and sound loops and wen i get to the desktop i put the cursor over an icon and it becomes red/pinkish vertical lines..i dont know why..

my cpu is a 23c and my gpu is at 46c

 

[witeboy07]

when underload my gpu goes to 55 to 65c and my cpu goes to 35 to 45c

 

[WR2]

Did you know your phenom 710 x4 is actually x3?

Did you have a lot of crashes before you overclocked your CPU?

 

[witeboy07]

yea i know..but is unlocked to x4..and uhm..i just did some experimenting and did 11.5x300 and upped my voltage to 1.472..and played gta4 for like 15minutes without a crash..maybe my cpu needed more juice..

 

[WR2]

More likely you've found why the 4th core was locked out.

 

[WR2]

What are your CPU temps running with the extra voltage?

 

[witeboy07]

under load is 35-48c