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Sup guys,
I went out to menards today and picked up a kill-a-watt sensor to see my actual wattage on my gaming rig. You could say I did it because I was feeling buyers remorse for picking up a corsair hx 1050w off ebay to replace the hx 750w in my rig right now. I'm upgrading to see if my sli gtx 680 ftw+ 4gb cards don't overclock well because they are maxing out the power from the psu.
I didn't really have time to do a bunch of tests on it, but on single passes of iracing and dirt3, the max reading on the kill-a-watt was 425 watts. That's with a 2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz on 1.25v and stock clocks on the sli cards. The rest of my rig is in my sig, plus 4 gentle typhoon AP-00 fans (2150rpm) on the H100, 1 corsair 200mm fan, and 4 xigmatek xaf-f1255 fans (soon to be 6 of them). all of these on the hx 750w..
So now I'm asking myself do I really need a 1kW psu?
(BTW I quickly ran Intelburntest with standard settings and it maxed out at about 280w. The thing that worried me though is that the runs took longer 11-12secs instead of 8-9secs, and the gflops were lower about 78 instead of the 100s. CoreTemp stated that my 2500K was still at 4.5GHz. Not sure why)
I went out to menards today and picked up a kill-a-watt sensor to see my actual wattage on my gaming rig. You could say I did it because I was feeling buyers remorse for picking up a corsair hx 1050w off ebay to replace the hx 750w in my rig right now. I'm upgrading to see if my sli gtx 680 ftw+ 4gb cards don't overclock well because they are maxing out the power from the psu.
I didn't really have time to do a bunch of tests on it, but on single passes of iracing and dirt3, the max reading on the kill-a-watt was 425 watts. That's with a 2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz on 1.25v and stock clocks on the sli cards. The rest of my rig is in my sig, plus 4 gentle typhoon AP-00 fans (2150rpm) on the H100, 1 corsair 200mm fan, and 4 xigmatek xaf-f1255 fans (soon to be 6 of them). all of these on the hx 750w..
So now I'm asking myself do I really need a 1kW psu?
(BTW I quickly ran Intelburntest with standard settings and it maxed out at about 280w. The thing that worried me though is that the runs took longer 11-12secs instead of 8-9secs, and the gflops were lower about 78 instead of the 100s. CoreTemp stated that my 2500K was still at 4.5GHz. Not sure why)
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