PSU advice please

mirlock · 1 May 2008 at 09:53

Hi all

Ok to start ill list what im running

1 x Dvd drive
2 x baracuda 160Gig drive
1 x Maxtor 160Gig drive
1 x Wd 250 external Drive
Water cooling pump
Asus p5n32-sli motherboard
Q6600 cpu
2 x Geforce xfx 8800Gtx Extreams 630 cores
4 x 2Gig ram sticks geil black dragons
3 x cooling fans
1x Ram cooling fan

All this is running off a 700w psu http://www.jeantech.com/storm.htm

The question im asking is . Is this psu man enough to run it all

If not what would you say i should use

I must note that my g/cards need 2 x 6pin power inputs each and im using adaptors for one of the cards ( Would this effect the power being fed to the cards using the 2 adaptors on 1 card )

so a new psu must have atleast 2 of the 6pin leads

Many Thx

gary996 · 1 May 2008 at 10:04

Have you got any OCing?
Don't know a lot about that make of PSU. But I would have said that a 700w psu should be man enough. Check your volts whan its loaded up and see if they are droping by much

A2Z · 1 May 2008 at 10:07

Why post 2 topics? We dont do that around here.

mirlock · 1 May 2008 at 10:12

gary996 said:
Have you got any OCing?
Don't know a lot about that make of PSU. But I would have said that a 700w psu should be man enough. Check your volts whan its loaded up and see if they are droping by much

Hi yes i do OC the cpu is normally between 3 - 3.3 Gig

On laod nothing drops really and on full load i dont see it go more then 400w drain. but i was wondering if it can spike.

As my problem is. I have 3 screens on vists 64. When i watch a film or a video clip and on another screen have a game running it locks up.
Ive reformatted a few times . and change dthe drivers about . but its still there . it doesnt happen all the time but it does happen after a while of doing both.
Even if i have dreanscene running and then play a game it crashes after a while

But i dont know . just trying to get to the bottom of it

mirlock · 1 May 2008 at 10:20

A2Z said:
Why post 2 topics? We dont do that around here.

Because i wasnt sure if i had it in the right one . but i can easy close them if you like and goto another forum if it offends you that much

mirlock · 1 May 2008 at 10:27

Guys forget this thread seem i can put it anywhere i like untill a mod moves it.
So if you read and want to help the main thread is in overclocking

Thx

Egon · 1 May 2008 at 12:16

A2Z said:
Why post 2 topics? We dont do that around here.

Could have been phrased better, you sound a tad pretentious there matey

gary996 · 1 May 2008 at 14:06

It doesn't sound like a PSU problem to me. Run some apps just on the one screen. Something that will test the CPU and GPU