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Qpack psu woes

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cieje

Limp Gawd
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So got my new rig setup, except for the eventual evercool wc 202 + modding etc

Qpack
AMD 64x2 3800+
MSI K8NGM2-FID (Nvidia 6150)
Geil Value DDR400 2x512mb (default settings running dual mode 200mhz, 4-4-8 1T)
Sapphire x1800xl 256
LiteOn DVDR/W
WD IDE 160gb
Hitachi SATA (150... unfortunately) 250gb

Right now I'm using the stock psu... but I guess I need to replace it. After getting everything together, first thing I did was go into the bios, to setup my preferences etc etc. for boot order etc. and the first thing I noticed in the h/w monitor was the 12v was fluctuating between 12.6 and 13.2! - the other rails seems a little off too, but weren't jumping as much.

After installing winxp sp2, drivers (downloaded newest nforce, 6.4 cats + ccc, realtek hd audio drivers, dx 9.0c) I started playing around with games etc. Amazing speed compared to my 2.8c +9800pro , but I had a couple hard resets, usually after gaming, or when I accessing my SATA driver I noticed... I'm going to attribute it to the PSU I guess. In cpu-z the cpu voltage was changing a lot from 1.3-1.4ish. In PcAlert (msi monitoring software) temps are all fine, but the 12v still 12.6-13.2 and the olther voltages... just don't seem stable. (nothing like my old mATX sparkle 220w)

Despite the psu, I decided to play with some o/c Just lock the mem to 166 and some lax timings, and just push the FSB up (board goes 200-250) went to 210 seemed fine, ran prime95 in two instances on seperate affinity for like 5min - and watched temps, never above 50c on the cpu (stock cooling for now) then went to 220 same results really, but once I went to 230 one of my prime instances started to fail (but never went above 51c). I'm guessing because there's not a solid voltage/current being supplied to the cpu.

I guess this whole long depiction is to get opinions... can all the problems be attributed to the PSU? I do plan on replacing it, but I was hoping for at least adequate results... guess I was hoping for too much, now I have to decide on a psu... I was looking at this OCZ ModStream 550w (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817104154) but I'm not sure if the clearence will be ok behind it... I've seen some tight squeezes with modular psus in the qpacks - would I just be better off with a good dual 12v non modular?
 
With so freakin many bad reviews on the Q-pack's PSU, why even count on it in the first place? I have heard NOTHING good about it, other than the paint looks nice.

The XClio is nice. I was going to go with it for my build, but the stock Micro Fly PSU works great for me.
 
yea, I guess I was hoping to be one of the lucky few that can hold 12v within like at least 3% haha. Ordered the clio after reading a few reviews a couple hours ago - rush ordered with 2day ups... crossing my fingers for it to be delivered by friday so I can play on this 3day weekend of no working :-/ I'm not sure I should even use my current setup at all, I'm afraid the 13+v on that 12v rail will hurt something.
 
The voltage probes on mobos are notoriously unreliable though. The only real way to check is to pull out the trusty old voltmeter...
 
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