Originally posted by: bryanW1995
hey, how long have you been running that rig? We've been having a discussion in another thread about the right psu for felang. He's looking to oc his G0 quad to 3.6. He's afraid to use a 520 hx b/c of the load ratings on it and/or long term system stability concerns.
I've had mine up for 3 or 4 weeks, tweeked it up to 9x400, got it stable then stopped, the cores were getting up in mid 60's, too hot for my tastes, so I lowered to 9x380 the cores get up into the low 50's under load... Nothing in particular is HOT, the PSU is just warm, but the area around the entire unit does get warm. I
have slowed it to 3.1 and really have not noticed any performance difference while modeling , The 520 has been just fine; I have no regrets and would not get the larger unit unless I was going to do SLI..
FWIW.. Unless he gets a very special G0 he is not going to run it very long at 3.6 on air..