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lucidium on 28 February 2014
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Captain_Tom said:
lucidium said:
Captain_Tom said:

I am not saying it's invincible.  I am saying that it isn't going to stop working because someone printed "OCZ" on it.

Read my edit to above post.
500W won't get him very far with a modern GPU unless he goes for something low on power usage, which wouldn' give him much of a performance boost at all.

Sticking with a low end 500W unit with a higher performing GPU that draws more power potentially puts the rest of his PC components at risk because those low end OCZ units have no surge protection, no overvoltage protection and no current filtering.


Dude look at my sig, I understand PC's lol.  Having siad that, I didn't see the wattage.  Yeah its on the lower end, but idk I really don't see why his 500w couldn't power a 250W gpu.  As long as his other components aren't power hungry it should be fine.  

 

However did he say what ram he had?  It's more than 4gb right?

It isnt just about the overall wattage of the PSU, its about how much wattage/amps it can provide in a stable form over each rail, your average cheap 500w unit is going to struggle like hell to handle the draw from a 200w+ card even if the combined draw of all components in the system is under 500w total

I firmly believe "making do" with the most critical "potential disaster" component of a PC (the PSU) is the worst option.

I strongly advocate the use of a high end, high quality PSU for anything other than a "facebook machine".

Besides, if you invest in a good PSU it will outlast every other component in your PC and the warranty will reflect that, the warranty on my Corsair AX1200i for example is 7 years manufacturer replacement, it will likely be the only part on my PC that is the same in 7 years, and I am pretty sure unless im going nuts with the multi-gpu in 7 years time it will still meet my needs even then.

With regards to longevity, upgradability, reliability and protection of your system, NOTHING is more important than a good, quality power supply.

I cannot stress this enough, and if you're serious about knowing your stuff then I see no reason why you would disagree with this.