Do you think I have overloaded my PSU

[eflat]

When I start doing processor intensive tasks my computer is freezing. I'm worried it might be from the PSU.

Here is what I have on it:

Q6600 @ 3.6GHz (stock voltage)

EVGA 8800GTS

4 Hard Drives

2 Disk Drives


I thought 500 would be plenty seeing as how I do not have a SLI setup or anything.

 

[Jiggz]

Have you tried raising the CPU voltage? Naw, you have not overloaded your PSU and you are still ways out of doing it. It's just that your OC is not stable and require a voltage bump for intensive CPU tasks.

 

[Denithor]

Jiggz is right, you are probably seeing a bit of vdroop under load causing instability.

Just bump up the voltage slightly and run Orthos to test for stability. For a Q6600 make sure you have good enough cooling as well before you start messing with voltage.

 

[potato28]

What video card are you running? Otherwise I agree with Jiggz on raising the Vcore a little.

 

[Rubycon]

Does it freeze at default FSB?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
When I start doing processor intensive tasks my computer is freezing. I'm worried it might be from the PSU.

Here is what I have on it:

Q6600 @ 3.6GHz (stock voltage)

EVGA 8800GTS

4 Hard Drives

2 Disk Drives


I thought 500 would be plenty seeing as how I do not have a SLI setup or anything.

Read some of AT's articles on actual power used. If I had to guess I'd say you're using 350W or so of that power at full load.