- Joined
- Mar 12, 2011
- Location
- Auckland NZ
Hi,
I just bought some new hardware for my gaming/software dev machine, and it seems to be pretty cool. However When i am playing some games it crashes back into windows with errors reading memory locations or sometimes it bluescreens and bombs out all together. I think i need to get a new PSU, i went to newegg.com and used their calculator and it recommends about a 720w. My current PSU is only 620w.
My setup is as follows:
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 4.2Ghz under boost.
idles at about 1.65 Ghz. And averages just over 3.4 Ghz under minor load.
Motherboard:
Asus P8P67 LE
Ram
4GB G-Skill 1600 Mhz
Video Card:
ATI Radeon 5830 1GB
PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
HDD's
1x OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
2x seagate baracuda 160gb in Raid 0.
1x 750gb Samsung Spinpoint.
1x 750gb Seagate baracuda
1x 2TB WD
And its also running a DVD RW.
I know this is quite a lot of HDD's but i need a fix.
I may be able to pull some of the hard disks out to take the load off.
Also I was thinking of getting maybe an 850w or a 1000w PSU. Was looking at the corsair ones, could anyone make any recommendations and do you think it will fix my crashing problem? I seem to think the graphics card uses the most power.
I just bought some new hardware for my gaming/software dev machine, and it seems to be pretty cool. However When i am playing some games it crashes back into windows with errors reading memory locations or sometimes it bluescreens and bombs out all together. I think i need to get a new PSU, i went to newegg.com and used their calculator and it recommends about a 720w. My current PSU is only 620w.
My setup is as follows:
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 4.2Ghz under boost.
idles at about 1.65 Ghz. And averages just over 3.4 Ghz under minor load.
Motherboard:
Asus P8P67 LE
Ram
4GB G-Skill 1600 Mhz
Video Card:
ATI Radeon 5830 1GB
PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
HDD's
1x OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
2x seagate baracuda 160gb in Raid 0.
1x 750gb Samsung Spinpoint.
1x 750gb Seagate baracuda
1x 2TB WD
And its also running a DVD RW.
I know this is quite a lot of HDD's but i need a fix.
I may be able to pull some of the hard disks out to take the load off.
Also I was thinking of getting maybe an 850w or a 1000w PSU. Was looking at the corsair ones, could anyone make any recommendations and do you think it will fix my crashing problem? I seem to think the graphics card uses the most power.