Okay so some time this following month I'm going to upgrade my graphics card and possibly my PSU. I was looking at the various 560 ti's and saw the Novatech one for £150 which is at stock speeds. Or the frozr II for £172 oc edition, both 1GB. The only thing I'm concerned about is most of the 560 ti's I've seen all have a the twin fan cooling where as the Novatech which is the reference design only has one fan. Perhaps it could run hotter? Also I would like to get a modular PSU as i'm fed up of the amount of cables currently everywhere in my system. It's been a while since i've had the psu out but i know it's 650 and not a bad make though only has 2 x 6pin pci adaptors, wouldn't be able to support the power hungry monster gpus. With the graphics card upgrade i'll be running a 560 Ti, 2500k overclocked on stock fan, 2 sata hdd and 1 sata 3 SSD. 2 x 4gb ripjaw 1600 ddr3. And my antec 300 with 3 x 120mm fans and 1 x 140mm fan (may replace with a h60 later on for the cpu) I will be fine running the 560ti at the moment compared to my 4890 but a new psu would be nice
What make is your current PSU? If its a half-decent make then you don't need to upgrade it. I'd just get the cheapest 560Ti to be honest, that's what I did. Are you intending to overclock your graphics card? If not, then the one fan solution will be just fine - especially with that much case ventilation.
Think I might take a couple of the fans out once I get a h60, it's a bit noisy and not running hot. I won't over clock the graphics cards, not yet anyway. I need to open up the case to find out, can't remember at all what the psu is as I bought it off a flat mate as a quick replacement because my Hiper modular psu blew on me
I have a similar spec to you (see sig) and this is the PSU I'm using. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/650w...us-bronze-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-quiet-fan-atx Does the antec 300 require an upside down PSU? If so I wouldn't suggest getting the one I linked as in my antec 100 where it needs to be upside down half of the cables are too short to be routed around the back. I would suggest gettting a 2gb 560 TI though for future games.
I was thinking this but the highest I game at is 1920 x 1080 on one monitor. Though I might connect my old 19" aswell as I need to fire up 3ds max again. Just finally checked out my PSU, it's a Seasonic SS600 HT. What temps are you getting on that i5 with the arctic cooler?
One thing to note with an modular PSU is whether you actually use all of the available cables or not. If you do a modular PSU won't help clear up the "mess of cables".
I have never noticed temps go above 55 but It never reaches goes far above 50% load as far as I know.
Yeah think ill keep the PSU for now, put the money towards a better cooler for my i5 and Overclock it some more. Probably get the slightly overclocked 560 TI for £20 more as well but stick with the 1GB version.
