Is my PSU good enough for my current specs?

Lander

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So basically I'm just wondering whether my power supply is good enough for the rest of my components.

I've gradually upgraded everything however power supply is the only thing I haven't touched, here are my current specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor
GTX 295
4gig ddr2 ram
Western digital 650gb HDD
Maxtor 250gb HDD
windows 7 32bit

My current PSU is 600W OCZ StealthXStream Power Supply (removed link)

What made me wonder is that recently I've noticed the PC to be a bit slow both in games and in general use.

hope you can help me out

Jack
 
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Welcome to the forum :D

If your system can run furmark happily, then I suggest you are fine with that PSU. as for the link I would suggest removing it as it is against the forum rules.

The main thing that would concern me about your rig is the 4GB system RAM and a 1.8GB graphics card on a 32 bit OS (which can only use 4GB RAM maximum).

If I were you, i'd switch/upgrade to 64 bit Windows 7 ASAP.
 
Nice , thanks for the help pal . Much appreciated

I shall go and order a 64 bit copy of windows 7 now then :P
 
Yeah man I can only emphasise what andi said: there is no much point having 4gigs of ram and only a 32bit operating system. Your powersupply should be fine. 600W psu for your rig is more than enough!
 
Lander said:
600W OCZ StealthXStream
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FSP with CapXons or whatever their grab bag had... but unless PSU has been baked in hot place above CPU it should be enough.
(with FurMark+Linpack 450W power draw is probable... in games maybe 350W)

OCCT should have mode for stressing both CPU and GPU at once if you want to see does it stay stable.
http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php?Download
(plain GPU stressing not enough because that CPU is one of the "hottest" desktop CPUs ever)


cmndr_andi said:
1.8GB graphics card
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Real amount is only 0.9GB (that of single GPU) and neither is all of that addressed directly at once but it's mapped through smaller "window".
HD5870 has full GB and I have also sound card and RAID card with their own (smaller) memory addressing needs and usable memory amount is around 3.2GB. (don't remember precisely, some time since I last booted to XP)

And if OS has stayed the same then OS being 32bit one can't have any relation to recent slow down.
In software side cause might be useless shovelwares etc installed to run on background. (use Task manager to check that no process is eating CPU time/memory)
 
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