I've had a couple of problems with this build and I think a lot of them would be solved with a new power supply. Not sure what wattage I should go for though and moneys tight so I'm after the cheapest but also a quality one, so the least wattage I can get away with I suppose.
I've just "upgraded" to
APU:- AMD A10 6800K Black Edition 4.1GHZ APU (which "should" have a GPU Radeon™ HD 8670D; Latest DirectX 11.0 GPU clock speed 844 MHz)
Heatsink: Artic Freezer Pro 7 rev2
Motherboard:- Asus F2 A85-V Pro
Memory:- Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133Mhz 4x 4GB
Hard Drives:- Crucial SSD 240GB
Seagate barracuda 3TB Sata
Seagate Baracuda 2TB sate
Western Digital 750GB Sata
Western Digital 750GB Sata
Optical Drives:- 2 standard LG read write satas (not blueray)
System fans: 1 extra large rear (Its really large 120mm I think not sure) and 2x standard LED fans that run from either motherboard or old molex connectors.
Additional peripheral:- PCIe to SATA III & ESata controller card.
Originally I was using my OLD PSU - EVO Labs 720T its a 720watt dual rail that was fine and stable in my old FM2+ quad core system with Radeon HD6670. (okay its years old but when I was building that system that PSU had reasonable reviews plus it was stable and quiet for me)
However although it seemed that it worked fine at first for about four weeks, (although the motherboard would only read/allow memory speed at 1333mhz which i now believe was PSU related, but still was fine with turbo boosting the graphics and CPU speeds) it just failed to turn the system on one day (checked it with an XFX 750watt power supply the system started up just fine, but I didn't check it beyond 5 minutes, plus I then checked and the old power supply still works on the old system, so not sure if its just old and no longer reliable/stable enough for the new build, or if 720watts is insufficient)
Soooo I was wondering should I get a modern 750watt or do I need to increase to an 850watt PSU?
I will probably put a new graphics card in "eventually" (I haven't gamed in years beyond an Xbox, I keep saying I'm going to again but never seem to have time) as to be honest the graphics on this build suck for just video playback so no way I'd try middle level gaming which most reviews states it can handle. Which was why I got it not an FX8 - big mistake - But if do install an additional graphics card I'd probably either use my old HD6670 2GB card (which I'm told would work in crossfire mode with the graphics card built in to the APU) or upgrade to the R9 270 2GB card. So with this as a possibility do I need a 750watt or an 850watt PSU?
(I'm currently looking at either XFX core editions or the Corsair RM editions in PSU's but I'm open to suggestions.)
Please and thank you
[PS - for other builders if you get the black edition A10 the normal graphics drivers for the A10 6800K on AMD's site don't work and won't install, AMD's auto detect doesn't work. Nothing in AMD's data base about problems with black editions, AMD support is none existent, and still haven't got back to me, however I eventually found a link else where online to what was claimed to be special drivers for the black editions. It did lead back to AMD site, but I couldn't identify the drivers on that page it was just a download option. However those graphics installed and seem to work, but it might be why my Graphics quality currently suck compared to my old system - I'm still waiting on AMD support to clarify that
]
I've just "upgraded" to
APU:- AMD A10 6800K Black Edition 4.1GHZ APU (which "should" have a GPU Radeon™ HD 8670D; Latest DirectX 11.0 GPU clock speed 844 MHz)
Heatsink: Artic Freezer Pro 7 rev2
Motherboard:- Asus F2 A85-V Pro
Memory:- Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133Mhz 4x 4GB
Hard Drives:- Crucial SSD 240GB
Seagate barracuda 3TB Sata
Seagate Baracuda 2TB sate
Western Digital 750GB Sata
Western Digital 750GB Sata
Optical Drives:- 2 standard LG read write satas (not blueray)
System fans: 1 extra large rear (Its really large 120mm I think not sure) and 2x standard LED fans that run from either motherboard or old molex connectors.
Additional peripheral:- PCIe to SATA III & ESata controller card.
Originally I was using my OLD PSU - EVO Labs 720T its a 720watt dual rail that was fine and stable in my old FM2+ quad core system with Radeon HD6670. (okay its years old but when I was building that system that PSU had reasonable reviews plus it was stable and quiet for me)
However although it seemed that it worked fine at first for about four weeks, (although the motherboard would only read/allow memory speed at 1333mhz which i now believe was PSU related, but still was fine with turbo boosting the graphics and CPU speeds) it just failed to turn the system on one day (checked it with an XFX 750watt power supply the system started up just fine, but I didn't check it beyond 5 minutes, plus I then checked and the old power supply still works on the old system, so not sure if its just old and no longer reliable/stable enough for the new build, or if 720watts is insufficient)
Soooo I was wondering should I get a modern 750watt or do I need to increase to an 850watt PSU?
I will probably put a new graphics card in "eventually" (I haven't gamed in years beyond an Xbox, I keep saying I'm going to again but never seem to have time) as to be honest the graphics on this build suck for just video playback so no way I'd try middle level gaming which most reviews states it can handle. Which was why I got it not an FX8 - big mistake - But if do install an additional graphics card I'd probably either use my old HD6670 2GB card (which I'm told would work in crossfire mode with the graphics card built in to the APU) or upgrade to the R9 270 2GB card. So with this as a possibility do I need a 750watt or an 850watt PSU?
(I'm currently looking at either XFX core editions or the Corsair RM editions in PSU's but I'm open to suggestions.)
Please and thank you
[PS - for other builders if you get the black edition A10 the normal graphics drivers for the A10 6800K on AMD's site don't work and won't install, AMD's auto detect doesn't work. Nothing in AMD's data base about problems with black editions, AMD support is none existent, and still haven't got back to me, however I eventually found a link else where online to what was claimed to be special drivers for the black editions. It did lead back to AMD site, but I couldn't identify the drivers on that page it was just a download option. However those graphics installed and seem to work, but it might be why my Graphics quality currently suck compared to my old system - I'm still waiting on AMD support to clarify that
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