Thinking this PSU is a real bad one, Upgraded a lot and still new rig performs bad.

J-I-M

J-I-M

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Hey guys a friend of mine just upgraded his computer components over christmas, I didn't suggest spending £500+ on going for a full i5 ddr3 works etc since he only games and not at a high res, I still personally and statistically think the Q6600 775 is a great CPU. heres a short break down of what's changed:

Upgraded to:

CPU: Intel Q6600 socket 775

Graphics Card: ATI 6850 from GTX 280

Ram: Goodram 4gig (unchanged still kind of old but seems to work)

Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45 DS3L

Amacrox 500W PSU (Cannot find any information on this,??)

He's a bit of a hardcore gamer and plays more or less everything as much as possible, WoW, BF3 , SWOTR , DiRT3, APB Reloaded, Batman Arkham City, F.3.A.R etc etc He games at 1680x1050 and has more or less seen no FPS increase from upgrading his CPU to the Q6600 from some old CPU dual core and this graphics card.

Under heavy loads he's suffering really bad FPS he can play BF2 and BF3 for about 15 minutes before it gets unplayable, he can't raid 25 mans on WoW, and cannot handle any explosions or multiple players on APB/SWOTR etc.

I've done the best I can to help him build a perfectly cappable gaming rig and he's still disappointed with the result, on average on more or less all games hes stuck on 25-30 fps. At that resolution I would atleast expect a solid 50+ given his specs.

I've put this down to his PSU, I've never heard of Amacrox before and I believe it isn't supplying his entire rig with enough power, hence the stuttering and drastically low FPS rates (As bad as 5-10 in BF3 after 15 mins give or take)

Could anyone else suggest anything else other than upgrading his PSU? I don't want him feeling i've let him down so I'd really appreciate any help I could get, I suggested upgrading to some along the lines of http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-055-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Or http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-048-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
A new PSU won't increase your framerates. It'll help stability and overclocking headroom though. It may be that a q6600 (especially at stock) and a 6850 simply aren't enough to max the newest games at a decent framerate.
 
As above get an overclock on that Q6600, at 2.4Ghz stock speed it's generally not quite enough for some present titles. Anything over 3Ghz will help quite a bit, couple that with a graphics overclock and you should be able to play most games near peak setting (give or take some AA) at 1680 x 1050 resolution.
 
If the card / CPU aren't fed properly, any weird thing can happen. Most likely a shutdown, but if the PSU fail-safe are not working, you will have pretty wild power coming in.

With the current gear he has, the Corsair CX will work. Although I would select something more powerful and more suited to gaming, the CX is gonna bottleneck if he adds anything more powerful (say, GTX 560ti / HD 6950 range). I tend to not bother with OCZ's PSUs and stick to Corsair / Antec / XFX / Enermax / Seasonic.

And also adding a decent 3rd party cooler to overclock the Q6600. 2.4GHz is pretty low.
 
i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but i dont think the 6850 is much of an upgrade from the GTX 280... not that i can find ANY benchmark site that has used the same game for both cards :mad:

also, get that PSU switched out quick. using a no brand PSU is asking for your PC to go up in smoke
 
Q6600 needs to be overclocked to at least 3GHz, and even then it still won't max some new games out.
A 2.4GHz quad core is useless in modern games, where most games STILL only use 2 cores, that gives you 4.8GHz of power in total.

A fast clocked dual core will perform far better than a slow clocked quad core in the majority of games, except the select few which are fully optimised to use four cores 100%.
 
Cheers for the replies, and as for the not suggesting an i5 200k The lad is on an extremely tight budget. I hadn't known the PSU untill he recently told me about it. Secondly he bought all these parts second hand and got them for a great deal.

So that is why I did not suggest going for an i5, his budget was way to small to upgrade the CPU, mobo, psu, gcard all at the same time. I'll suggest he overclocks before upgrading the PSU Apparently it's some polish brand that isn't known for them being bad.

Edit: I'd just like to point out that I was suggested a 6850 to be upgraded on "This" Forum, it isn't me that found or suggested the card in the first place, I was confirmed on these forums that, that specific card would perform with the best fps at his resolution, so i'd appreciate it if you kept your negativity and assumptions to a minimum if you really must post.
 
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