650goldwatt vs 800bronzewatt psu
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So I completed my first build last night(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DEF7) and everything was working fine. I took a nap for two hours while downloading skyrim from steam and when I woke up my pc was off. I tried to turn it back on and nothing would happen. I turned the psu on and off, unplugged and replugged it and it still didn't turn it on. So after work I went bought a corsair 800gs psu from best buy and I was going to replace my seasonic 650x psu but the pc turned on and its running fine now.
Should I still switch out the psu or leave it. I'm a bit worried about under powering my system. It is a pure gaming machine and I want to overclock it.
TL;DR: should I switch the gold rated 650watt psu for the bronze rated 800watt psu.
670sli, 3570k, 3 gentle typhoon fans, noctua-nh-u12p, 1ssd, 1hdd
Should I still switch out the psu or leave it. I'm a bit worried about under powering my system. It is a pure gaming machine and I want to overclock it.
TL;DR: should I switch the gold rated 650watt psu for the bronze rated 800watt psu.
670sli, 3570k, 3 gentle typhoon fans, noctua-nh-u12p, 1ssd, 1hdd
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Not sure I agree with the under-powered post. 650w should be enough for that build under stress as it's rated at 521w (loaded) and 20% puts you at 650w. Since you were downloading a game (ie, not stressing the gpus/cpu) I'd think it was highly unlikely that a lack of power was causing this.
That said, even good PSU (Xseries is a great psu) can be bad. I'd suspect you either have a bad psu, or something else is at work (thermal paste application, or mobo issue, for instance).
That said, even good PSU (Xseries is a great psu) can be bad. I'd suspect you either have a bad psu, or something else is at work (thermal paste application, or mobo issue, for instance).
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eyeage said:
Not sure I agree with the under-powered post. 650w should be enough for that build under stress as it's rated at 521w (loaded) and 20% puts you at 650w. Since you were downloading a game (ie, not stressing the gpus/cpu) I'd think it was highly unlikely that a lack of power was causing this. That said, even good PSU (Xseries is a great psu) can be bad. I'd suspect you either have a bad psu, or something else is at work (thermal paste application, or mobo issue, for instance).
You're right, I added 2 570s on accident. My mistake.
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