General computer talk/advice

This is a far more in depth test of the power supply that i am using: http://www.kitguru.net/components/p...r-silent-pro-gold-600w-power-supply-review/4/

It shows that the power supply reached 720w before it shut itself down to protect anything from being damaged. They also show that in their own testing it stayed above 90% efficiency at all times when used within advertised limits. They also go in depth about efficiency. So if you want to learn about how the efficiency works then it is a good place to look

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Nope, the rated wattage is output, not at the wall.

Some sources:
http://www.howtogeek.com/129667/what-exactly-does-the-wattage-rating-on-a-power-supply-unit-mean/
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/power/sup/outputPower-c.html
http://www.heinz.co.uk/Products/Tomato-Ketchup

Cooler master on my PSU quote the minimum maximum output. For example it can only handle up to 576w on the 12v gpu power supply section. It can also only handle up to 150w on the CPU powering section. If you draw all of that at once you will be drawing well over 600w but it is still "kinda" within spec. But they only claim it does 600w since that is all they can guarantee. not all PSU manufacturers use this system though, the really cheap ones will give you the maximum maximum (and then some), essentially on really cheap psu's its a case of dont go over this otherwise it will start killing components and melting etc.

 

aljowen is right. If you have a 1000w PSU you can power 1000w worth of components but it will draw more from the wall. Also, most PSUs can actually more than their rated wattage, but it's obviously not a good idea to test that.

 

I want super silent black/white 140mm fans, which buy?

 

how easy is it to put a new gpu in?

is just a remove old one
stick in new one
intall drivers
PLAY!

 

Enermax may have something to suit your needs. All my case fans are the free ones that i got with my Enermax case and they are all quiet. The rear exhaust is actually plugged directly into the PSU so has no fan control and even at idle the CPU fan is louder. Cooler master also make the silence fans. Noctua have the industrial fans but they may not be to your coloring needs. Corsair also have fans which a lot of people like due to the colour options. Be Quiet! also make very good products.

There are a lot of choices. There are also many roundups where they benchmark fans, i would suggest that you do not compare between articles since they will all have different testing methods and apparatus for noise levels.If both tests have one of the same fan then you can use that to weight things accordingly for both tests etc though.

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Essentially yes, but you will need to uninstall the old drivers. Set up cabling if they use different number/type of connectors (6pin vs 8pin and so on).

 

cant i just leave the old ones on?

 

Old drivers? If you're switching from AMD to Nvidia or from Nvidia to AMD, then no, you must uninstall the old drivers and install the new ones in order for the new card to work. If you switch from AMD to AMD or nvidia to nvidia then you might just need to update depending on how old your old graphics card is.

If you're switching from integrated graphics, you don't need to uninstall anything, just install the new gpu's drivers.

 

im going nvidia-nvidia

GT630-GTX970

 

I know NZXT makes quiet 140mm fans. Phanteks or whatever I think makes some
too.

 

I need a better GPU. Nvidia plz, I only have a 500w power supply.

Looking for 60FPS in BeamNG with Max setting + PostFX, in detailed maps like Hirochi Raceway and East Coast USA. No antialising. 1080p

Would a 960 suffice? Or would I have to go to a 970? Keep in mind the 970 costs $460 here because Canada floats upon oil.

 

a 960 should do fine, although at that price range an r9-280 will perform better (and is actually cheaper), if there's some specific reason you need an nvidia card (for example, g-sync or cuda or some other nvidia specific feature) then a 960 should handle beamng at 1080p just fine at max

 

The 960 would maybe do it, but really a 970 would be ideal. They can max that map at 1080p WITH antialising at 50-60FPS, and it is power efficient so could run on a 500w PSU, if decent. What PSU do you have, 80+? If so, bronze, silver, gold?

 

I got my first BSOD on this laptop earlier...

Don't know what caused it. Hasnt happened again. May be the new wireless card but I have updated drivers on that since.

 

Today at Starbucks I ordered a medium coffee by saying "medium."

#firstworldanarchist

EDIT: Wrong general chat. Oh well.

 

I had my first BSOD on my PC about a week ago (FFS don't do the thing that everyone at my school does when I saw a about a week ago), it never happened again an again couldn't figure out why, it was running at idle, not gaming, no intensive tasks. I hate mysteries, just because I can never be bothered to solve them. Then I have to wait for someone to get off their fat asses and figure out what happened (my dad being the one who would figure it out because I'm normally the one sitting on one's ass).

 

nothing in event manager?

 

just had a look. Definitely wireless card.

"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." at 14:56
"Windows failed to resume from hibernate with error status 0xC0000001." at 14:56
"The local adapter does not support an important Low Energy controller state. The minimum required supported state mask is 0x1f7fffff, got 0x1f3fffff. Low Energy functionality will be disabled." also at 14:56 with source being "BTHUSB".

"Bluetooth HID device either went out of range or became unresponsive." occurred at 21:57 with source being HidBth. That was when I turned off a Bluetooth keyboard. Bth returns here so I think BTHUSB must be something to do with Bluetooth. New wireless card has Bluetooth and the bluescreen occurred just moments after I resumed from hibernate. Since updating the driver, this machine has been in and out of hibernate without issue a few more times.


Come to think of it. I only hibernated the laptop before swapping module, didn't do a full shutdown. So it was probably a case of windows default driver + no cold boot after hardware change.

 

960 will be fine, but you could run even a 290x on a quality 500w PSU. I run a 280x overclocked with an overclocked i5 and never break 400w total use in gaming.

 

Wouldn't risk it. The 290X is a power hungry monster.

 

I run my 270s with a 750w PSU just to be safe. I'm sure it'd run fine on my old 500w but with my overclocked 8320 it'd be pushing it.