Pc Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 PFC and i7

Wanescotting

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First post under new name (forgot previous info, several years since last post...)

Anyhow, I just built a new system and it doesn't feel right. Yea I know makes no sense....... I am currently running an AMD system and I feel the itch to build an i7 or i5 system (besides, dad can have my AMD sytem for Christmas, what a brilliant justification!)

I have a Pc Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 (http://www.pcpower.com/power-supply/turbo-cool-510-sli.html), and was wondering if it could power the following system:

i7 / i5 CPU
EVGA x58 Micro ATX
6 gig ddr 3
2 Western Digital Raptors
1 LG DVD Writer
1 Evga 250

I will not be overclocking, nor will I play any games (Stupid EA...no more Madden on PC).

I have done some research, and it looks promising, but I want some feedback, maybe from someone with a similar setup.

It is worth noting that my PSU is 5 years old, and recently RMA'ed (had some caps replaced, so it is like new) :)
 

Wanescotting

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Not a refurb per say, pc power and cooling replaced caps 25 and 26 if I remember correctly. They fixed my unit, they did not send a refurb.
 

mpilchfamily

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Point being a 5 year old PSU may not be fully up to par for supporting the system. But since the caps where replaced its basicly like new.
 

Yellowbeard

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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hi.. [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I don't know the answer about an acceptablee temperature range i didn't look it up on the intel site but I have a couple of questions about your cpu installation. Did you carefully clean all of the old thermal compound off of the hp heat sink? And did you use the stuff that intel sticks on the cpu as the thermal compound for your new installation or did you clean that off and apply something else like Arctic Silver 5? Might make a difference if you use a higher quality thermal compound than that strip intel put on there. There's a lot of hype out there about different products but the important thing I think is to make sure to clean off the old stuff and make sure you use some kind of thermal paste between the cpu and the heat sink. Good luck.[/FONT]

Wrong thread perhaps?

For the OP:

You may want to take a close look at the specifications and make sure your 12v rail on that PSU is OK. 5 years ago, there was a LOT more emphasis on the 5v rail and the 12v rails on most PSUs were nowhere near as large or robust as they are today.