PSU On Limit....?

Darkmike

Darkmike

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Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular

Is it good enough for this rig?

  • VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB
  • AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz
  • MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+)
  • Kingston 120GB SSD
  • WD 500GB Sata
  • TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
  • LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA
  • Antec P280 Case

Cheers
 
fot the cost of the cpu and board you could get a basic i5 and get better performance and lower power usage
 
I'd guess he's already bought the AMD kit now needs a PSU.

Agreed otherwise though.

For a cheap PSU the corsair cx ones are fine, you shouldn't have any issue at all.

Unless your doing some heavy overclocking with volt tweaks on all parts etc then... only maybe issue.
 
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I have a 8350 and a 2gb 6950 the rest is similar to your spec and my old 450w gigabyte psu was getting beasted by it and making it whine.(it was 3 years old)
If you can afford it I would buy a 600 ish psu so you have a comfortable but not too much amount in reserve and therefore you have more leeway for adding more powerful graphics cards etc in the future.
I was fortunate that I got an Antec 850w PSU , yes its overkill but it was a one left/one day only deal and half price :D. I can now get some brave pills and try overclocking .
 
Depending on what version of the CX500 you have it only has 408w or 456w on the 12v rails. Fx8000 series cpu's suck a hell of a lot of power when overclocked. The CX500 would probably run it but it may get close to it's limits and run hot and noisey. Personally i would buy something better as the CX ranges are nothing more than a budget psu built down to a price.
 
Not going overclock to be honest.. happy with performance.

already got the corsair cx500 just wondered if its a risk running that system with it.

Can you disable the turbo mode on these processors?

cheers folks.
 
Darkmike said:
Just bloody don't want risk wrecking the system with this PSU lol

thought turn off the turbo mode to help :)

Cheers
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:confused: Your 500w psu will be fine but no 3hr benching, or priming over night and your fine.

turbo only comes into use when only 1or2 cores are under full load it shuts down the other cose and boosts the power the maxed 2. so turning off will make no difference to power usage you sould turn off cores lol, but that would also be silly.
 
The maximum power I have seen is 370W and that is priming on eight cores at 4.6GHz AND heaven 2.5 benching on my 6950 concurrently.

This is not dissimilar to an overclocked i5/i7 with a fast single GPU.

500w will be fine on a branded PSU
 
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