Graphics my new gtx 275 is doing my head in

thanks for that m8 the place im getting the p.s.u from do do the corsair for about £95 inc v.a.t.
but i think im still going to go for the hiper typem 1000w... mainly because iv had mine for about 3 too 4 years and iv had no problem with it at all (TILL NOW LOL) it cost £65 of e-bay a bargain at the time only 3mths old then and if i get the same years out of the new 1 i will be happy if anyone as got this p.s.u tell me wot ya think about it. or better still id be glad of any input about this p.s.u or others. but my max is £120 and im looking for future proof as well as watts and amps lol.
cheers guys.
p.s im getting 1 tomz

 

I am running an GTX280 and a Quadro FX3450, plus a heavy overclocked Q6600, 3 HDD, bucket o fans in there all off an Antec Quattro 850W PSU that isn't breaking a sweat, nuff said i think.

Hipers 1KW unit is overkill and personally KW units generally aint that efficent, like it pulls 800W from the wall to give 500W of power or something daft like that.

 

i agree with you on the over kill m8 but with the change in p.c hardware over the course of a year i just want somthing that is going too be future proof after all i might upgrade parts in my comp from time too time but a p.s.u is 1 of the things that you should get a few years out of before having too buy another.

 

This 850 watt PSU is pretty good, 70 amps on 12V rail too

 

this might be a daft question but am i reading the amps correct http://www.hipergroup.com/products.php?lv=4&cate=1&type=38&pid=136&action=Specification
do you add up the amps from +12v 1.....+12v 2....+12v 3....+12v 4 which given a combind amp 105amps???
or am i missing somthing out????
more i look at different p.s.u the worse i get lol its been a long day

 

thats pretty much how it works, the 12V rails provide power to major components such as graphics cards, and that one you linked seems ok.

105 amps is plenty, enough for nearly any single card setup.

 

thats good i might be able too get some sleep tonight.
thanks alot too everyone who as posted.
i let you all know how i get on after iv installed it.

 

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You do not add them up what so ever.

One 12v rail will be wired in to provide power over a certain set of connectors. So your motherboard and graphics cards may or may not be drawing from the same 12v rail.

This is the whole point in using seperate rails, it allowed companies to build powerful yet relatively cheap power supplies by using combined rails.

 

thats a really nice psu you got burn.. puts out more than it's rated- there was a guy on evga who used to oc and run tri-sli g80 8800gtx's with that psu

 

It is epic, i remember corsair 620W units doing simular things.

 

OCZ's StealthXStream PSU 600W was tested to be capable of 720W.

 

This months custom pc magizine recommends the following you might want to check them out per your spec?

Budget PC -
Ocz ModXstream pro 500W- Dual Core Single GPU

600W +
Be Quite! Dark Power Pro 650W-£105.56
Scan etc.

800W+
Seasonic M12D850W
Rails rock soild, very quite, energy efficient modular cables , four 6+2 pin PCI E cables, 70A across two 12V rails, better for 2xgpu- £166 scan.

1Kw+ Enermax Revolution 85+ 1,050W
2 8-pin EPS 12V 8 - 6+2pin PCI -E cables fairly quiet / power efficient, has post shutdown cooling - £206 scan etc.

 

Sorry, reading that back now I didn't make that clear what so ever.

Yeah each rail goes to somewhere else in your computer, not all of them combined go to one component.

Sorry again, one of my "clear as mud explanations"

 

well well well wot a day iv had i got my hiper 1kw 105 amp p.s.u (or wot ever it works out at lol) i installed it (a little of messing about in my thermaltake armour l.c.s case. the p.s.u is a little bigger) booted it up and DAMB same crap . so again i swoped over the cards back too the 8800gtx and that was playing up wot the hell could it be...so i decided too throw the gtx 275 in our lasses with her hiper m580 psu (which iv done before but put cod 4 on and told our lasses son to play it too death and nowt happend (no glitching no crashers )...anyway started the brain cells ticking and decided too reset the bios and start afresh and hold and behold it seems too be working a treat at moment only really benched it with farcry 2 with a average of 32fps at 1650*1050 with high settings and it ran 3d mark vantage no probs at max...so too top it off i think...IT WAS MY SYSTEM TOO OVER CLOCKED TOO RUN THE CARD....still you live and learn and at £120 it was a very expensive learning curve lol still never mind i always wanted too do SLI lol

 

Thats just proves that sometimes lifes a B***H! lol

 

That sounds extremely strange.

Everything was pointing to a weak PSU, and you say its just a bad overclock.

For future reference when a machine decides to throw its toys out the pram, remove any overclocks and test before blowing a load of cash.

However we all learn the hard way its in are nature! I once spent several hours one night trying to work out why my machine refused to boot, turned out to be the fuse in the plug, a simple fix and yet not first thought!

 

i spent a few hours trying to get my pc to start and i thought i had blown the mother board only to find out after buying a new cpu and motherboard that i didnt connect the 4 pin power connector . the motherboard, cpu were fine!! that was a £300 mistake

 

+1 Agreed.

Oh well, at least its sorted now.

 

650W is enough for probably any machine...really. Everything else is pretty excessive.

 

on topic...something still doesnt seem right...but o well...