Chance to replace parts

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 12:03

Chance to replace parts - PSU advice

Guys,

I got a mate who will take some spares parts and my PSU and motherboard off my hands.

Currently have a
Q6600 <- keeping and then selling the following
Gigabyte P35-DS4
Geil BlackDragon 1066mhz ram
Enermax Noisetaker 500W

Thinking of getting the
Asus P5k Premium
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8500C5
Corsair 620W PSU

Seeing as I have a spare E6600 lying around I'll probably draw even. Is it worth? Reckon that board is a better overclocker than the gigabyte one? And PSU I think might be stronger on the rails?

-iceblade^ · 28 Feb 2008 at 12:41

yeah, but is it really necessary? that's a good system...

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 13:19

Good question... Am I going to go through two days of hell and a weeks worth of getting to know th new motherboard only to end up nowhere further....

Either I spend another £200 to get my E6600 working or I break even and move upto 4GB of ram and possibly a PSU that is stronger and a board I see that is used a lot more in the high overclocks.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17779323

These Gigabyte boards seem very weird at times.

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 14:12

Dont want to start another thread for this.

What the consider a very strong overclocking PSU? Sometihing that will not break a sweat with a quad core and a 8800 card overclocked. 4 sata drivers, water cooler, 4 fans and DVD rom.

The Corsair 620W HX I was looking at seems to only have 18a on the rails?

-iceblade^ · 28 Feb 2008 at 15:43

try for something above 750/800W... look here for more...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108088

and i would say it's not worth it... rather just save the money and spend it later on in a new build

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 18:58

Probably going to get this PSU.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-030-EN

Should be enough power.

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 19:25

Anyone know any other PSU with 24amps on the rails or around about there?

PhillyDee · 28 Feb 2008 at 19:42

No, the corsair has 54A on the 12v rails. It says triple rail (18A per rail), but its actually 1.

http://www.corsair.com/products/hx.aspx

Just take a look.

Tainted · 28 Feb 2008 at 20:10

Every where I read it's 18a per rail, and there are 3 rails. 54amps on one rail would probably make it the strongest PSU to date??

Tainted · 29 Feb 2008 at 18:00

Well I eventaully went with what I originally set out for. Was going to go for a "Enermax Galaxy 850w" but it's too big for my case.

So these parts arrive tomorrow:
Asus P5k Premium
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8500C5
Corsair 620W PSU

I spend £20 after selling my mate my MB, spare E6600, ThermalRight Ultra-120 and Geil 1066mhz and a lastly a 430w or 500w PSU to go with that. So for £20,00 I get double the memory, get a another board that might be the same or slightly better overclocker and a second decent power supply that might help overclocking.

i was going to let my Enermax 600w go but thought...... stuff it!

Not bad for £20.00!!