cpu question

[shadowm891]

hello everyone and thanks for leting me join your forum i was wondering could i run a 500 watt psu with the setup i got and overclock my intel e8400 processor to 3.8ghz i was told by somone i know it should be ok since my video card is a 8600gt and not a 8800gt but i wanted to make sure if its true or not

 

[DSF]

You could overclock an 8800GT and E8400 without any trouble on a 500W PSU. With an 8600GT don't even worry about it.

 

[shadowm891]

how low u think i could go with the setup i got just wondering

 

[krnmastersgt]

Edit: Woops, question of price, not time ^^;;

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: DSF
You could overclock an 8800GT and E8400 without any trouble on a 500W PSU. With an 8600GT don't even worry about it.

+1, Also like to add, Welcome to Anandtech!

 

[shadowm891]

im just wanting to get a psu so i can overclock my e8400 to 3.8ghz for gameing and downloading music and watching movies and stuff games like wow and crysis

 

[Diogenes2]

Depends on the PSU -

You can by a cheap 500w PSU that would be nothing but grief with the parts you are using...

However, there are probably some high quality 400-450w's that would
work just fine..

 

[krnmastersgt]

Originally posted by: Diogenes2
Depends on the PSU -

You can by a cheap 500w PSU that would be nothing but grief with the parts you are using...

However, there are probably some high quality 400-450w's that would
work just fine..

+1 to that :thumbsup:

 

[shadowm891]

well right now i have this thermaltake tr2-430w psu and it has a 4 pin plug for the motherboard but i did come across a adpted on newegg that would change it from a 4 pin to a 8 pin which the board i have now needs

 

[shadowm891]

hey sorry to bother you guys but i was wondering if one of u may know a good psu i could get for like 80 dollar + shiping if not a lil less would help thats support the 8 pin boards

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: shadowm891
hey sorry to bother you guys but i was wondering if one of u may know a good psu i could get for like 80 dollar + shiping if not a lil less would help thats support the 8 pin boards

This is your cheapest good PSU at the moment. There are better for more money, but you can't beat that one for the price.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: shadowm891
well right now i have this thermaltake tr2-430w psu and it has a 4 pin plug for the motherboard but i did come across a adpted on newegg that would change it from a 4 pin to a 8 pin which the board i have now needs

In virtually all of the cases that I've seen, the 8-pin ATX12V connector has the ability to have a 4-pin ATX12V connector plugged into half of it. So even if your mobo has an 8-pin, you can use a 4-pin PSU. Same deal with the 20-pin versus 24-pin ATX connector. You can plug a 20-pin PSU into part of the 24-pin.

If there are exceptions to this rule, I don't know of any. There are no additional signal pins in the larger size connectors, only multiple duplicates of pins that already exist in the smaller size connectors. The benefit of the additional pins is additional current-carrying capacity, which in the vast majority of cases is not required. Maybe if you were overclocking a quad-core, they might matter.

So in short, you may not need an additional PSU. I'm using ThermalTake 430W PSUs in both of my nearly-identical gaming rigs, with E2140s @ 3.2Ghz, 1.425v (BIOS), Radeon X1950Pro video card, 320GB SATA WD HD, 20X IDE DVD burner. I can't imagine that the E8400, even at 4.0Ghz, would take that much more power than my CPU, and the 8600GT probably takes less power than the X1950Pro does.

 

[unr3al]

Enermax PSUs are the best, but extremely expensive. Thermaltake and Antec (not the Basiq range) are good as well. AOpen (what I am running atm) is very good and I have a cousin running a 7600GT and AMD 5000+ with the 7600 overclocked on a 350W. So I'm guessing a 400W AOpen (thats what I have) should be enough for you.

Kind of off topic but if you would forgive me hijacking the post a moment; I am looking to upgrade my PSU once I buy a proper graphics card (something with 18A or more per rail) and Im just wondering about Gigabyte. I have seen a 550W Gigabyte PSU for an amazing price (think it was just below R600, thats $75-$80) and compared to the Thermaltakes and even the OCZ's thats dirt cheap, in SA at least.

Does anyone know how reliable these PSUs are, perhaps from personal experience or even hearsay? I don't want the slightest risk of frying my components and would rather pay R200 extra for a decent Thermaltake/Antec than take a chance on a possible liability.

 

[chuckm]

Get this power supply and you'll be set;
http://www.buy.com/prod/Corsai...loc/101/205466485.html

Or it's big brother;
http://www.buy.com/prod/Corsai...loc/101/205852646.html

 

[mancunian]

Originally posted by: chuckm
Get this power supply and you'll be set;
http://www.buy.com/prod/Corsai...loc/101/205466485.html

Or it's big brother;
http://www.buy.com/prod/Corsai...loc/101/205852646.html

+1 :thumbsup:

I have the VX550, awesome unit for the price.