I keep hearing it restarting every now and then. I’m starting to worry that it’s not my motherboard that is failing, but the PSU…
No, if it sounds like its trying to start for the first time over and over, it could be that the read arm’s locking…
How many watts is your current supply?
400W and it sustains a AMD Athlon x2 3600+ (pre-energy saving upgrade), GForce 9600 GT, 2 HDDs (3,5” and 2,5”), DVD writer and other is usual stuff. And before you say anything - it ran in this configuration since I got the Video card 5 years ago.
Yeah, and 400 was never enough power. Those things are rated at 400 but are only about 80% efficient. Plus that efficiency degrades over time with a constant full load. I actually blew a supply like that.
I’d say it was enough, that thing was never unstable or anything. Just NOW it started to be. It can be it wearing down, I guess we will see on wednesday or so, when I will get another PSU for testing.
In my experience its always best to have a PSU that’s 100 watts more than you need. The lesser the load on the supply, the longer they last
Well, that PSU was bought when there was only one HDD and a weaker video card in it (Radeon x550, passive cooling) so it needed less power. And since after upgrades it worked I didn’t care about changing it.
pewnythepony reblogged this from aperture-in-the-multiverse and added:
Well, that PSU was bought when there was only one HDD and a weaker video card in it (Radeon x550, passive cooling) so it...
aperture-in-the-multiverse reblogged this from pewnythepony and added:
In my experience its always best to have a PSU that’s 100 watts more than you need. The lesser the load on the supply,...
