Cable length on Superflower modular PSU

Jaridan

Jaridan

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Ive just bought a SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply, which i will be installing into my Antec P280 case along with my gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard.
My main concern is the length of the cables running from the Psu as the old Corsair cables from TX650 required some creative routing to work......
Can anyone using one of the Superflower psus tell me if they are decent length?
And are they as quiet as people say? :)
 
Thanks Stulid, that's pretty impressive judging from that video.
Still cant get my head around the fan not spinning up, its been a while since i've had to buy a psu.
 
Yes indeed, totally silent while the PC is under general use, Even when our lad is playing his Transformers game (war of Cybertron) for an hour or so. I cant say Ive heard it spin up.
IIRC Fan comes on when the internal ambient reaches 55C and goes off at 45C.
Superb PSU, it was bought solely for this reason, and doesn't disappoint.
 
Ive changed my graphics card from a GTX770 to a EVGA GTX 980 sc and have had nothing but trouble ever since with games freezing, various graphics driver has recovered from.. messages etc.
I haven't reformatted yet as id like to leave that as a last resort or until i get some new drives.. But anyway the new psu is a future proof idea as i may grab another 980 when i get the funds together as well.
 
Jaridan said:
Ive changed my graphics card from a GTX770 to a EVGA GTX 980 sc and have had nothing but trouble ever since with games freezing, various graphics driver has recovered from.. messages etc.
I haven't reformatted yet as id like to leave that as a last resort or until i get some new drives.. But anyway the new psu is a future proof idea as i may grab another 980 when i get the funds together as well.
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Nvidia drivers have been wildly inconsistant recently 347.88 has been the best of the bunch since the new year,give them a try

You should be fine for cable length on the PSU with the superfloweronly the CPU 4/8 piin could prove problematic,start off your Cable management with that.
 
Before formatting the system you can try a tool like driver fusion to clean out all old driver and then download the one MrMD suggested and install again. If you do use a lot of tools that have access to the graphics card like precision, GPUz, temptools aso I would suggest for testing to also delete them and just download the latest precision.
Did you already try to limit the overclock of the graphics card by lowering the power target till the card is running at base clock? Just to see if this will make any changes. Do you have those issues in all games or just some?
 
Thankyou for the reply Dominik, I'll try the things you have suggested, i have lowered the overclock on the card a little using msi afterburner but i'm not hugely confident with overclocking or underclocking hardware so i tend to leave things stock.
The main games effected are The Witcher 3 GTA5 Dying light. I don't seem to have any issues with Arma 3 or any of the other games i'd play. Will i get the older driver version from Nvidias main site?
 
You can just enter the driver number and download to google then it will show you the link to NVIDIAs site to download it. Downclocking is pretty simple, when using Precision/AB you can lower the power target to minus. I would suggest to download heaven benchmark for testing, this is a pretty good freeware software for testing and overclocking. When heaven is running in window mode you can then lower the power target and the card will start to downclock itself, then just lower it till the card is running the boost clock. Heaven is also a pretty good stability test, you can just run this in a loop for half an hour and see if it will crash, the application is pretty demanding and graphics cards crash pretty fast if there is an issue. Is your CPU or RAM overclocked? If yes, did you already try to remove this overclock?
 
I'm currently running an I7 2700k overclocked to 4.1ghz with an h100i cooler this has been stable for quite some time and rarely goes above 60c when loaded. The ram is Avexir pc1600 using the xmp profile. It's only since I changed from my Evga 770 sc to the Evga 980 sc that I've had issues. When it is working it's lovely though. :)
 
Ok, so i ran the heaven benchmark everything maxed out and let in run in a loop for twenty minutes.
Cpu max temp was 60c on core #2 i kept the standard clock on the 980 and max temp there was 71c no hic ups or problems. Ill run Witcher 3 for a bit and see how that fares.
edit: I ran Witcher 3 and all seemed well until the game froze on me, was able to alt tab out to my other monitor and use task manager to close it.. back to the drawing board
 
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I see there has been a patch today so ill give that a blast later on, also my spiffy new superflower psu arrived this afternoon so i may be a busy boy later on..
 
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