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well my machine killed another power supply, how often do you overclockers go through PSUs?

zanejohnson

zanejohnson

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i think it might just be the crappy power supplys i've been using, (Codegen 550 watters) the specs are decent, had a pretty strong 5v rail (30A) but a weak 12V rail (16A)

through my trusty Antec truepower 420 in there and it's back up and running, i think it's underrated at 420 watts, i didn't look at the specs on it before i closed the case back up, but it's served me for many years and in many different machines, its been powering my fileserver/ftp server so now i need to find another power supply to power it, im sure i have one laying around somewhere, and the server isn't very demanding... i might have to lower the overclock but that's ok, it just needs to serve files and that doesnt take much cpu power at all...


so how many crappy psu's have you guys killed with your overclocked machines?

Since you want to know what the experience of overclockers is, I moved this from Off Topic.

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I had a $50 power supply kill $800 worth of components. I haven't bought a power supply under $90 since.

If you're overclocking, the PSU is obviously very important because overclocking uses a nonlinear increase in power to achieve the speed gains.
 
Think I fried one a long time ago when I didn't know what i was doing. My current rig has been running strong since Feb 08 if I remember.
 
One, and that was because I was using the power supply that came with a crappy compUSA case.
 
The Antec 420 is probably supplying more power than that POS you were using. Looking at the specs in your signature, I think it should be fine.
 
The closest I ever got to killing a power supply is when I had my old Prescott running @ 4GHz for about an hour. Damn power supply would stink whenever I pushed past 3.4GHz. lol

It was an Ultra 500w - the first modular psu they had out. That PSU took a beating from me and never once failed. I never got why it got such bad reviews. (I did get one of the very first revisions.)
 
I don't overclock my PC and I can't remember ever frying a power supply.

I just upgraded to an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz with 2GB RAM and a 512MB PCI-E ATI video card (not exactly cutting edge but then I only paid $300 to do this upgrade).

I don't even remember what PSU I have but it's a good one...and it is quiet.
 
Originally posted by: OCguy
I spend hundreds on my machine, why would I skimp on the PSU?
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Yeah, this kills me too. I don't get how people think that a cheap power supply should be used, when they've spent so much more on other components. I gave a friend of mines a 6400+, and he had a decent SLi motherboard -- yet he ran it on a cheap generic 430w PSU.

Needless to say, it died right about 3 weeks later.
 
16A on 12V on a 550w PSU screams cheap and crappy.
I am in no way surprised it failed miserably.
My 400w PSU has 30A on the 12V rail.
 
The PSU is the one component that can kill every other part in your computer. All at once. I've never understood why it's the first place some people pick to "economize".

edit: FWIW, I've gone from generic (during my young and ignorant days) to Antec, then Enermax, and now SeaSonic. I've not had one fail since I started buying by brand.
 
Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
The Antec 420 is probably supplying more power than that POS you were using. Looking at the specs in your signature, I think it should be fine.
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yeah that's what i figured too, it also has better fans, and the fan blowing across the radiator on my coolit freezone blows directly into the intake fan on the power supply so that should help keep the cpu cooler..
 
Originally posted by: brandonbull
Zero for me because I don't buy crappy PSU.
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This. I've been building computers for 12 years and overclocking for 5-6, and the only component that's ever failed on me was a 10-year-old Maxtor 40GB hard drive. A quality PSU is a necessity for all my computers. Specs don't matter if they're inflated, especially if you're only getting 11V on your 12V rail, which is a common problem in crappy PSUs.
 
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