The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

[ALXAndy]

lmao, that isn't what the efficiency rating means

but by the by, as yes you can actually run most power supplies slightly past their rated maximum without any problems

From what I can remember the 80+ rating for efficiency basically tells you how much load you can put on a PSU while it remaining efficient and not creating any waste power which obviously turns into heat.

So for example a 1000w 80+ PSU can draw 1000w from the wall and deliver 800w actual.

So my point was that basically with these new PSUs that are 95% or what not you can draw 1000w from the wall and get 950w efficiently to the parts themselves.

Meaning that basically loading up a 850w with a 700w draw would be more than safe, and, won't start running very hot or guzzling waste power.

I will buy myself a power meter pretty soon and run some load tests on my PC with Prime 95 and Furmark. Any one know the name of a decent power meter?

 

[andybird123]

The efficiency rating is how efficient they are as a maximum, so usually between say 40%-60% of their rated maximum, so a 1000W psu will be say 92-95% efficient from 400W to 600W

At their rated maximum they will still be say 88% efficient, so a 1000W psu running at 1000W will be drawing 1130W or so

You can safely run a psu up to its maximum rating, most will happily run up to about 110%

Psu's are rated based on what they put out, not what they draw

 

[ALXAndy]

They are tested at 20% 50% and 100%. They have to be 80% efficient to get the 80 plus rating.

Most PSUs these days are at least 85% efficient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOXTZizoknc

The issue would be ripple, and the TX850M is a damn good supply.

 

[mururoa]

From what I can remember the 80+ rating for efficiency basically tells you how much load you can put on a PSU while it remaining efficient and not creating any waste power which obviously turns into heat.

So for example a 1000w 80+ PSU can draw 1000w from the wall and deliver 800w actual.

So my point was that basically with these new PSUs that are 95% or what not you can draw 1000w from the wall and get 950w efficiently to the parts themselves.

That's not even remotely accurate.

The efficiency is relative to the load and the max. efficiency is achieved at certain level of load, above and especially below which the efficiency will be lower. Let's take a look at this very rudimentary chart as a simple example:

The rating of 1000W is what the psu promises as available for consumption so the draw at the wall is higher; every psu worth anything at all is capable of delivering at least somewhat more and in some cases a lot more than their rated wattage.

 

[Rroff]

Both of my current PSUs will quite happily run at ~100watt over their rating before any significant level of regulation becomes an issue but once you get close to the rated output transients, regulation, ripple, etc. all start to become issues depending on the quality of the PSU and can reduce the lifespan of components sometimes considerably.

For most people the efficiency rating has little meaning or consequence outside of being a general indicator of the PSU quality.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Well ive decided, im gona source another elsewhere, then when this one turns up, its Xfire.

Was going to get another one anyway at some point.

 

[muziqaz]

Well ive decided, im gona source another elsewhere, then when this one turns up, its Xfire.

Was going to get another one anyway at some point.

good luck

 

[Mr Evil]

Both of my current PSUs will quite happily run at ~100watt over their rating before any significant level of regulation becomes an issue...

My own PSU (Super Flower Golden Silent) actually states officially that it can supply 100W over its rating.

 

[ALXAndy]

My own PSU (Super Flower Golden Silent) actually states officially that it can supply 100W over its rating.

Most of them (the good ones any way) are rated very conservatively any way.

 

[muziqaz]

got new home for the PC:
https://flic.kr/p/wx8vmV

it replaced kinda flimsy corsair graphite 780.

Was very disappointed with corsair case to be honest. a lot of rattling and screeching sounds, especially when both sides are in place.
I could expect such built quality from some £20 case, not the one corsair is charging for it.

 

[uksoldierboy]

Well ive decided, im gona source another elsewhere, then when this one turns up, its Xfire.

Was going to get another one anyway at some point.

you beauty Two are just bonkers powerful.

 

[Ash0787]

I was thinking about going skylake extreme next year assuming it exists
but now I am reconsidering since I now know that I'll need new case and power supply which adds like 400 to the price, also from reading cpu forums it seem like skylake wont be like 30% better than haswell or something.

 

[muziqaz]

I was thinking about going skylake extreme next year assuming it exists
but now I am reconsidering since I now know that I'll need new case and power supply which adds like 400 to the price, also from reading cpu forums it seem like skylake wont be like 30% better than haswell or something.

it won't and Skylake E will be late as always to the party Same like Sandy Bridge E, Ivy Bridge E and Haswell E.

Now the only reason I went from Sandy Bridge E to Haswell E was I had enough of x79 USB and SATA issues. x99 platform is what x79 was supposed to be in terms of features and stability.

My next CPU will be probably Zen or whatever Intel comes up in few years.
Everything from Intel in past several years is complete meh.
We need AMD so badly in this one

 

[LoadsaMoney]

got new home for the PC:
https://flic.kr/p/wx8vmV

it replaced kinda flimsy corsair graphite 780.

Was very disappointed with corsair case to be honest. a lot of rattling and screeching sounds, especially when both sides are in place.
I could expect such built quality from some £20 case, not the one corsair is charging for it.

Any probs with that FX Rad on the bottom, as thats where id more than likely be putting my second one ?

you beauty Two are just bonkers powerful.

Indeed , i just thought, well i was going to get another anyway at some point, about few months time, and when the supply is better, so why not just source another now, and keep this one on replacement, so it can be my second, as probably not get it for another month or so now anyway

Never used Xfire before, so anything to do in the drivers, apart from ticking the Xfire checky ?

 

[muziqaz]

Any probs with that FX Rad on the bottom, as thats where id more than likely be putting my second one ?

no problems at all

Never used Xfire before, so anything to do in the drivers, apart from ticking the Xfire checky ?

No need to do anything. enable xfire in CCC and you are good. Except few games which do not support xfire, then just disable it and enjoy.

Remember Me, Euro Truck Simulator 2 are among the games which do not support xfire, and will crash your system if xfire is enabled.
15.6 drivers had this little fun feature to crash the display drivers and not the system if some problems came up. But with 15.7, they broke that feature and the whole system crashes instead of just display driver. I reported that to them, so I could predict they will have a fix soon enough for that

 

[LoadsaMoney]

no problems at all



No need to do anything. enable xfire in CCC and you are good. Except few games which do not support xfire, then just disable it and enjoy.

Remember Me, Euro Truck Simulator 2 are among the games which do not support xfire, and will crash your system if xfire is enabled.
15.6 drivers had this little fun feature to crash the display drivers and not the system if some problems came up. But with 15.7, they broke that feature and the whole system crashes instead of just display driver. I reported that to them, so I could predict they will have a fix soon enough for that

Nice one, thanks


Just noticed another Asus has gone from here, as well as the msi

 

[X3T]

Well ive decided, im gona source another elsewhere, then when this one turns up, its Xfire.

Was going to get another one anyway at some point.

I'm trying to decide whether to go crossfire or not too... I'm thinking it will be a pain to add a second card in later with a custom loop.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

You know you want to

 

[muziqaz]

I don't know why people keep buying them at such prices According to majority here fury x is slow, why would one pay so much money for them? I know I wouldn't pay so much for them, and I have 2 of them

 

[D.P.]

I don't know why people keep buying them at such prices According to majority here fury x is slow, why would one pay so much money for them? I know I wouldn't pay so much for them, and I have 2 of them

Maybe they are simply be used to fulfill RMAs due to pump whine!