quick overclocking question!

CinderzFTW · 7 Mar 2013 at 19:04

hey, got a quick overclocking question....

recently got a Phenom II 965BE and want to overclock the nuts off it, but not sure my PSU will take it!

Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 965BE 3.4ghz
ASRock M3N78D
7GB DDR3 1333mhz
ASUS GTX560 DirectCU
Ezcool Infinity 700W

Can my PSU/System take an overclock on the CPU (not fussed about the GPU atm) or will i blow my system up if I attempt to overclock?

Thanks

Cinderz

dacads · 7 Mar 2013 at 19:18

Don't like the sound of that PSU at all

I would get a XFX 550W to be on the safe side

CinderzFTW · 7 Mar 2013 at 19:29

i cannot afford it atm,

i had my old athlon at 3.4 ok, but i want to OC to 3.8 on this cpu, will i be fine or not... that is my question

dacads · 7 Mar 2013 at 19:40

It might be fine but I cannot say for certain as it could go boomat any time..a 700w for £30..a decent 750w would be around £90. The last thing you want to skimp on is a PSU, this is what many people need to learn. They have less protection from over voltage etc and don't deliver the stated wattage so in this case it is 700w but I can bet you it is not capable of that. So you might plug things in and find everything is fine, then one day you might hear a pop and it wouldn't be surprising if your other components go kaput along with it.

Moral of the story: Don't go cheap on a PSU

CinderzFTW · 7 Mar 2013 at 20:00

yea i know, i had my old athlon x4 at 3.4ghz for a few months and no problems, it didn't even heat up...

the psu was a quick replacement for an old psu that went bang... i have had it for about a year and a half, well just over and never had a problem

CinderzFTW · 7 Mar 2013 at 20:46

anyone else?

Wiry · 8 Mar 2013 at 10:37

Your power supply should be more than sufficient...

However as the others have said, your power supply is probably worth replacing when you get some money, I really wouldn't trust one of those.

pastymuncher · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:01

I really would'nt, then again i would'nt have bought a "so-called" 700w psu for £33 in the first place. Ez-Cool psu's are the poorest quality psu's imaginable. They are prone to failure, quite often with a big bang. A quick internet search would have shown that. Any 700w psu that can only deliver 480w on it's 12v rails is rubbish. It would probably fail before it got near outputting that much anyway. The psu is the single most important component in a pc and is not the place to save money.