Using 2 PSU has CLoD kicking it in high gear!

[swiss]

Originally Posted by ECV56_LeChuck

You risk damaging your components.

How's that going to happen?
Fry them due to the lack of power?

I wonder how many complains about bugs or bad performance are like this, or a bad configured system...

Many.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by swiss

How's that going to happen?
Fry them due to the lack of power?

Read that you can atleast fry the PSU but never heard of anyone who did that.

Originally Posted by swiss

How's that going to happen?
Fry them due to the lack of power?

A PSU that isn't up to the task is not going to give you very steady voltage, with dips and spikes whenever something power intensive happens (loading a game, a drive spinning up, fans kicking in, those 3 other cores revving up to full usage, etc.)

These dips and spikes put extra strain on your components and shorten their lifespan. I doubt a PSU is going to outright fry a component due to being too small, but it might make the difference between a GPU lasting your years or a week after the warranty runs out.

Also don't go with some no-name brand. Some of them are cheap, use really substandard components and CAN fry a system if they spike too high.

[tityus]

I got curious. The distortion on the width of the videos are a product of youtube uploading mechanism or game config?

tityus

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by tityus

I got curious. The distortion on the width of the videos are a product of youtube uploading mechanism or game config?

tityus

Thats the WMM settings I have to make a HD video.

[tityus]

AARPRazorbacks: Thats the WMM settings I have to make a HD video.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I don't have CloD yet and got a little worried about the distortion. Good thing it is intentional and not the game engine.

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[l3uLLDoZeR]

That is interesting, I didn't even think the gpu would work without enough juice. I went with PC power&cooling and my 750w silencer has been chugging along 24/7 for at least two years now.

[Ataros]

850 W 80+ psu for my modest videocard

...and no sound problems in MP btw ))

[SQB]

I have two psu's and I never thought of this, both are 500W.
How do you recommend setting it up?


Should I just use one psu for mobo/cpu etc and the other for graphics or are there other ways to set it up?

ATI 6870 1gb
Q8400 cpu
4Gb DDR2

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by SQB

I have two psu's and I never thought of this, both are 500W.
How do you recommend setting it up?


Should I just use one psu for mobo/cpu etc and the other for graphics or are there other ways to set it up?

ATI 6870 1gb
Q8400 cpu
4Gb DDR2

You can try different things. But I would for sure have the GPU and CPU on different PSU's.
I put 1 PSU on P1 and jumped the other P1 on the other PSU.

1 PSU's 12v male plug-in on the MOBO then the other male plug-in from the other PSU on the MOBO.

Your HD you connect to the PSU that you think will preform the best.
Then your CD/DVD player connect to your other PSU.

You can try different things to see what works the best with your HD and CD/DVD player.

After you set this up can turn up your setting on your Video card.

And your PC will be much faster. Mine is anyway.

Hope this helps.


Let us know how it works.

flyer01