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- Feb 12, 2012
Hello OCF peep! how is it going? pleasant i hope.
I just wanted a second (and more specialized) opinion since im planning to upgrade one of my really old rigs which is a Dual Core E5400, 4gb ram, Biostar Motherboard, 1 hdd, one DVD writer, and finally a HD4850 (bottlenecked the sh*t out of it, i know, i have a low res screen tho, 1280x1024, still, i know the CPU bottlenecks the GPU, im not overclocking at all in this rig btw) to a little more actual one and give that one to my little brother (except for the GPU, ill give him a spare gt240 i have)
But i can only afford to buy a CPU, Mobo and RAM for now.
Im planning to get a Phenom II x4 850 (or 840, or Athlon II x4 645, or something like that, you get the point, cheap AMD Quad Cores, those phenoms are not even Phenoms, are just rebranded Athlons, but sadly thats all i can afford... anyway) a decent Mobo and 4gb.
The thing is i have an unknown brand 450w PSU (its actually a national brand) with two 12+ rails, 16A each which ill be recycling temporally til i can get a better PSU for this new rig.
so, my question -finally- is, will there be any problem using this PSU with the new rig for a few months til i can save to get a better PSU?
If it helps at all, this PSU surprisingly has more connection capabilities than i expected it to have (6 pin PCI, SATA, standard Molex, bla bla) and so far (almost 2 years) havent gotten any issues with the other rig when gaming, no sudden restarts, BSODs, or anything that could imply that the PSU is failing or being over demanded.
But i do know the CPUs have totally different power consumptions, the AMD im planning to get will OBVIOUSLY draw more power than the E5400.
if you must know for "PSU-Load" purposes, im not into heavy gaming, even tho i do like to every now and then (but i mostly drop em after installation... seriously), most of them are online games like Bad Company 2, MW3, Black Ops, MW2, Counter-Strike (and im planning on buying BF3 aswell)
So, basically, is it safe to asume that ill be fine for a few months with this PSU? any words of advice, warnings, or something else?
I dont really know that much about PSUs, so i really must ask you guys, who im sure know a lot more than i do bout this.
I dont really have that much money to spare after the bills, rent, food, and few other needs, so its really the best i can get for now (specially in my country where anything computer related is really expensive) and i dont really want to see it trashed, specially cause we do need this.
So yeah, sorry if i wrote too much
English its not my first language so i really tried to make it as solid and coherent as posible. lemme know how much do i suck at it btw
Thanks for reading, cheers!
I just wanted a second (and more specialized) opinion since im planning to upgrade one of my really old rigs which is a Dual Core E5400, 4gb ram, Biostar Motherboard, 1 hdd, one DVD writer, and finally a HD4850 (bottlenecked the sh*t out of it, i know, i have a low res screen tho, 1280x1024, still, i know the CPU bottlenecks the GPU, im not overclocking at all in this rig btw) to a little more actual one and give that one to my little brother (except for the GPU, ill give him a spare gt240 i have)
But i can only afford to buy a CPU, Mobo and RAM for now.
Im planning to get a Phenom II x4 850 (or 840, or Athlon II x4 645, or something like that, you get the point, cheap AMD Quad Cores, those phenoms are not even Phenoms, are just rebranded Athlons, but sadly thats all i can afford... anyway) a decent Mobo and 4gb.
The thing is i have an unknown brand 450w PSU (its actually a national brand) with two 12+ rails, 16A each which ill be recycling temporally til i can get a better PSU for this new rig.
so, my question -finally- is, will there be any problem using this PSU with the new rig for a few months til i can save to get a better PSU?
If it helps at all, this PSU surprisingly has more connection capabilities than i expected it to have (6 pin PCI, SATA, standard Molex, bla bla) and so far (almost 2 years) havent gotten any issues with the other rig when gaming, no sudden restarts, BSODs, or anything that could imply that the PSU is failing or being over demanded.
But i do know the CPUs have totally different power consumptions, the AMD im planning to get will OBVIOUSLY draw more power than the E5400.
if you must know for "PSU-Load" purposes, im not into heavy gaming, even tho i do like to every now and then (but i mostly drop em after installation... seriously), most of them are online games like Bad Company 2, MW3, Black Ops, MW2, Counter-Strike (and im planning on buying BF3 aswell)
So, basically, is it safe to asume that ill be fine for a few months with this PSU? any words of advice, warnings, or something else?
I dont really know that much about PSUs, so i really must ask you guys, who im sure know a lot more than i do bout this.
I dont really have that much money to spare after the bills, rent, food, and few other needs, so its really the best i can get for now (specially in my country where anything computer related is really expensive) and i dont really want to see it trashed, specially cause we do need this.
So yeah, sorry if i wrote too much
English its not my first language so i really tried to make it as solid and coherent as posible. lemme know how much do i suck at it btw
Thanks for reading, cheers!
