Power Supply - 600W or 700W

cmndr_andi · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:06

Have you considered just upgrading the graphics card and PSU, and waiting until next year (loads of shiny new tech) for the CPU/mobo/RAM upgrade? The Q6600 - even at stock speeds runs most modern games rather well, it is clearly just your GPU that is holding you back at the moment.

Luke_Bowman · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:08

I was seriously thinking of keeping the ram but the motherboard is very bad for overclocking and I want to rid of my Intel

Luke_Bowman · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:11

And i think one of my ram sticks is bad? my pc was not booting up and im running on 2gb now, may be the ram or the boartd. Any way i can test?

stulid · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:12

run Memtest http://www.memtest.org/

cmndr_andi · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:13

Install one stick at a time and run memtest for each one.

Luke_Bowman · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:14

file .gz? and do i just boot with it?

danceforfreedom · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:51

As far as the PSU question is concerned I was wondering myself is a 700w PSU going to cost more to run than a 600w, be more efficient or is it the amount of power the components draw no matter the size of the PSU?

stulid · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:53

Its the amount the components use no matter what size the psu, a bigger wattage psu should run cooler and therefore be more efficient than a smaller wattage psu being pushed closer to its rating.

will be quieter too as the psu fan spins more slowly.

EsaT · 11 Dec 2010 at 18:56

Luke_Bowman said:
And i think one of my ram sticks is bad? my pc was not booting up and im running on 2gb now, may be the ram or the boartd. Any way i can test?

Have you checked what's official specified voltage for those particular memories and then set memory voltage to that value in BIOS?

Luke_Bowman said:
i suspect you've got something against OCZ?

Just against all those cheap Chinese capacitors OCZ uses.

stulid said:
Its the amount the components use no matter what size the psu, a bigger wattage psu should run cooler and therefore be more efficient than a smaller wattage psu being pushed closer to its rating.

If anything most people push 20% load of PSU where efficiency is already starting to prepare for free fall.

And if efficiency were same both 500W and 1kW PSUs would produce as much waste heat.