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9800 Pro or Procase 500watt PSU

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hey guys, i was wondering if any of u might be able to help me out with a little problem i'm having.

in my aluminium case i had a 300 watt psu that was crap, my dvd writer kept stopping and spinning when the computer tried to boot so i returned it and got a 500 watt instead. now i live in south africa and around here people dont usually fuss about brand name psu's and the one i got was a procase 500 watt. being 500 watt i thought it was of good quality.

anyway, my system (sig) started acting funny recently when i overclocked my cpu. but before i even oc'ed my cpu my 9800 pro started artifacting at stock speed so i had to underclock it. now sometimes i can oc the cpu to 3.12ghz and have my radeon at stock speed and still be able to play farcry for hours with no artifacts. next day artifacts appear immediately.

also a new problem that has crept up is random lock ups of the pc. just like freeze frame, no num lock, mouse cursor is cemented etc. when i reboot sometimes it just doesn't boot and other times it gets to the windows log on screen and freezes there as well. it does this at stock speed as well as overclocked.

here are the specs for my psu -

+5V - - 45A

+3.3V - - 28A

+12V - - 25A

-12V - - 0.8A

-5V - - 0.5A

i have tried upping the vcore to 1.6, the ddr to 2.6 and the agp is always at 1.6. i put my mem on 333 and then up the fsb to about 240 when overclocking.

any ideas?
 
ok, looking at my temps at the moment.

Processor temp: 48 (pc is idle, normally it should be about 38)
Mainboard temp: 29
Power/Aux temp: 65
Hard disk temp: 36

i turned of HT about an hour ago when the pc froze again. cpu seems to be running pretty hot now, not sure why. just browsing the net. has since gone up to 51. if i had to guess the temp in my room id say about 20 odd degrees. its winter here at the moment, raining outside and i got no heaters or anything on.

i opend up my pc yesterday to take a modem out and loosened the fan of the cpu and put it back on again. maybe it is not connecting properly now. any recommendations for cooling gel or something i can put on it? is it possible that the psu is getting hot and causing the system instability and video artifacts?

btw, i have a side fan and an extracting fan above the cpu.
 
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