EVGA GTX 260 Superclocked edition is my PSU enough

[wavemachine]

I have just taken delivery of one of these suckers, after much struggling I got it into my Gigabyte Aurora case.

I have a Hiper Type M 670 Watt PSU the model number is HPU-4M670 which has been fine with my 8800 GT, I noticed when benching with the new card a very high pitched whine coming from the PSU, I got nervous and put my old 8800 GT back in, on powering the system up again Kaspersky antivirus complained it's database was corrupt.

Do you think I need to replace my PSU, an article found says the following:-

The PSU can yield up to 465W or a little less than 39A over its +12V power rail divided into four “virtual” output lines.

Any recommendations if you think I should replace the PSU under 100 notes please.

My hardware is:-

Gigabyte 965p-DS3
4 x 2Gb Crucial Ballistix Ram
3 x Samsung spinpoint HD (2 x 500GB + 1 x 1TB)
SATA DVDRW
Q6600
Audigy X-FI

Thanks

 

[muon]

According to this all the rails can combine to produce 624w which is 52A. Still less than the 16A x 4 rails figure would suggest.

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Hiper Type-M 670W/index.php

So should be fine.

465w on the 12v rail on a 670w psu would really have been cheeky.

edit:

624w figure confirmed here as well

http://www.hipergroup.com/products.php?lv=3&cate=1&type=7&pid=21

You can always look at the sticker on the psu as well.

Also in the driverheaven article they say "4 independent 12 rails" which is obviously a lie since the amperage should be additive otherwise. A shame they are repeating the marketing BS.

 

[RJC]

The wine might be coming from the GPU, I have a 8800 GTX which makes a noise when folding and the odd game.

 

[Chong Warrior]

Are you sure the whine is coming from the PSU and not the 260 GTX?

Mine squeals like a pig on certain benchmarks and I've heard many other people mention it, apparently it's the capacitors and is normal.

Your PSU should be able to handle the card which draws around 36A.

 

[wavemachine]

Thanks for the replies, I will give it another go tomorrow night.

Guess I needed some reassurance

 

[muon]

Are you sure the whine is coming from the PSU and not the 260 GTX?

Mine squeals like a pig on certain benchmarks and I've heard many other people mention it, apparently it's the capacitors and is normal.

Your PSU should be able to handle the card which draws around 36A.

The card draws 36A? Thats equivalent to 432W at 12v. Where ever you saw that figure, it would have been talking about an entire system.

Here are the various power consumption figures for the gtx 260

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/evga-geforce-gtx260-216-55nm_5.html#sect0

The 55nm chip is considerably less power hungry. To get rough amperage figures, divide wattage by 12. So the max the gtx 280 would pull is around 15A if we assume all the power is from the 12v rail.

edit:

In fact the above xbitlabs review is so good

 

[Chong Warrior]

The card draws 36A? Thats equivalent to 432W at 12v. Where ever you saw that figure, it would have been talking about an entire system.

Yeah sorry that figure includes the card and an average system...