Am i overworking my poor psu?

belial8321 · 21 Apr 2011 at 19:55

Martini1991 said:
Are you monitoring the "Core temps" in HW monitor? Because they'd be wrong, and 40c is likely your chip being at 60+ and throttling.

Under WC mine was hitting 59c at 4375MHZ, and I had a cherry picked chip...

wait so do i go by motherboard readings? XD i was told ages ago that you should go by core temps?

belial8321 · 21 Apr 2011 at 21:05

Wooopsy XD just realised how close i have been pushing my cpu to its max safe temp - think i will wait till i ditch air cooling and can afford water before i continue overclocking - am gonna leave cpu at a stead 4.1Ghz - P95 stable and under full load after an hour 50C - cant afford to replace this little guy so i think i'll give it some breathing room, cheers for letting me realise that martini

Martini1991 · 22 Apr 2011 at 09:21

Do a print screen of your HWmonitor under load.

proxy10 · 22 Apr 2011 at 09:49

yeah, thats fine for u system

belial8321 · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:15

martini - here is a screeny of hw monitor after 20 minutes p95 blend in 24C ambient @ 4ghz

belial8321 · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:15

Just noticed, wtf is that fan doing at 675,000rpm XD i think the pc would be lifting off

MumboJumbo · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:34

I'd guestimate that you idle at around 190w. Your max draw is likely around 420w.

RJC · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:39

Looking at the link below a test system running a 6950 pulls 308w with Furmark and thats probably with a overcloked i7 system.

Around 450w tops as mentioned pretty much above.

belial8321 · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:39

Really?

i thought my max draw would be close on 600? considering the overclocks on everything as well + 5 mechanical harddrives im currently using XD

MumboJumbo · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:42

I'd say my idle is probably a bit off considering all the hard drives you have it is probably idling more like 250w. But I'd still say 450w is probably right.

RJC · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:48

My system is my sig has watercooling, 3 hard drives and this pulls 500w from the mains with Prime and FurMark running.
When I had my 480 this was 615w and 2 x 5850 it was 430w.

belial8321 · 22 Apr 2011 at 13:52

ah ok fair enough

thanks

MumboJumbo · 22 Apr 2011 at 15:39

RJC said:
My system is my sig has watercooling, 3 hard drives and this pulls 500w from the mains with Prime and FurMark running.
When I had my 480 this was 615w and 2 x 5850 it was 430w.

615w? Surely not :O. What are you using to measure these?

RJC · 22 Apr 2011 at 15:40

Plug in the wall power meter.

This one: http://www.qvsdirect.com/Brennenstuhl-Wattage-Current-Meter-pr-22452.html

Some results I took:

615W Furmark & Prime
405w Prime only
503w Furmark Only
272w Idle

This was with the 480 GTX.

The online reviews take the whole system wattage.

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2011 at 10:37

belial8321 said:
martini - here is a screeny of hw monitor after 20 minutes p95 blend in 24C ambient @ 4ghz

Hitting 51c after 20 minutes.
After about 8 hours, I'd guesstimate 56c

belial8321 · 24 Apr 2011 at 16:58

I left prime on overnight and it got to 55c so good guesstimate