Will my E6500 be bottlenecked by my new 6970!?

JRichens · 11 Oct 2012 at 16:41

Excellent, cheers!

I will thrape the hell out of my E6500 so it's just stable with a reasonable temp. and let you know the results this evening lol

Oh and since when was PayPal instant to your bank now!?!? I sent the remaining £25.00 to my HSBC, and it went straight in, last time took 2-3 days! Guess they finally joined the Fast-Payment Banks Scheme

JRichens · 12 Oct 2012 at 09:05

Cheers for the save!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-154-MS&tool=3

Its gone from £144.00
all the way up to £170 now!!!

Will be putting it in tonight :-)

pastymuncher · 12 Oct 2012 at 09:46

Your power supply is'nt exactly very good either. It can only output 324w on the 12v rails and according to this review, can only supply 420w of it's claimed 460w output.

JRichens · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:24

pastymuncher said:
Your power supply is'nt exactly very good either. It can only output 324w on the 12v rails and according to this review, can only supply 420w of it's claimed 460w output.

Right, well should I be worried with my new setup then (with the R7850 in)..

pastymuncher · 12 Oct 2012 at 13:01

With your E6500 i would say that you will be pulling something like 250w from your psu at full load. Add in some overclocking and extra voltage and it will be a lot closer to that 324w max. Theoretically you should just about be ok with the psu you have. Personally i would be changing it, especially if you are going to upgrade the cpu and mobo at some point.

JRichens · 12 Oct 2012 at 14:59

pastymuncher said:
With your E6500 i would say that you will be pulling something like 250w
Personally i would be changing it, especially if you are going to upgrade the cpu and mobo at some point.

Okay,

Last night I was pushing my CPU a bit...

Standard 2.93GHz (11x 266) @ 1.12v

I couldn't get it above 3.55GHz (11x 323) @ 1.30v (with increases made to RAM accordingly) It just wouldn't boot, would that be due to my PSU or my memory restricting the higher clock?

It runs stable at 3.55GHz (11x 323) @ 1.31v with maximum temp 61 degrees at full load. Average idle 38-41

Cheers

pastymuncher · 12 Oct 2012 at 18:56

It could be a number of things. Memory should be up for it though as long as you keep it within it's spec by adjusting the memory multiplier. I had a E5200 that would'nt go beyond 3.6Ghz stable no matter how much voltage i gave it. I sold that and got a E6300 (same series as yours, not the older C2D version) that with a lot of tweaking finally hit 4Ghz stable. I did'nt write down any power draw numbers at the time unfortunately.