Using 2 PSU has CLoD kicking it in high gear!

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Now that is very interesting.

My psu is a Dell supplied 350w unit, which may not even power my card adequately.

Performance with Cliffs of Dover is ok, but missions over London are a no-no.

If a new psu would provide a performance gain, I'd be happy to shell out on this first, rather than a card upgrade+psu, because of course if I upgrade my card, I'll definately need to change the psu.

Any advice?

Thanks!

click the link in my sig for the PSU, 2000 people cant be wrong

[AARPRazorbacks]

A friend of mine said it short and sweet after I told him about putting 2 PSU's on the PC.

"Having to use two PSU's tells me that your original PSU was of insufficient amperage to run your system. It's an ingenious way to provide the needed power if you have a spare PSU lying around."

[Derinahon]

You may have just had a bad PSU, 550w should be fine for that setup. Good you got it sorted though.

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by Derinahon

You may have just had a bad PSU, 550w should be fine for that setup. Good you got it sorted though.

I check the 550 PSU and it was working like it should.
And CLoD was doing fine with it.

after adding the 500 PSU is when CLoD got good.

The PC is faster and CLod preforms and looks better.

The things is you must adjust your video card settings for the power supply.

I see that there are some that don't post there PSU. That is where it all starts. The PSU.

flyer01

[lothar29]

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[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by AARPRazorbacks

I'v put 2 PSU's on the PC. 500 and 550 watt.

1280-1024 60Hz

Pseudo

AA-x8

AEF-off

SSAO-on

VSYNC-ON

TG- original

The 1st video is with the CloD settings at Med.

The 2ed video is with the settings on Med/high. Med BD and Forest.

The 3ed video is with the settings on high/Very high with the new Nvidia 275.33-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit drivers.Very high-BD and Forest.

Althrough I can fly CLoD at the very high settings I'm going to put the forest at high or med.

With this set up seams the higher the settings the better the sim plays and looks.

This is how I have the PSU'S set up on the PC:

500 and 550 watt on the GPU.
550 watt on MOBO
500 watt on HD and CD/DVD player

After doing this the PC loads and run's faster. And CLoD plays and looks better on my PC than it ever has.

If you have a high end PC and CLod is not playing very well it could be your PSU.

I did not want to get a high Watt PSU when I had others not being used. As it turns out this may work better then getting one PSU with more watts.

This is the link to the page that tells how to do this:
http://www.absoluteinsight.net/21


The main thing that I didn't know was how to put the jumpers to turn on the PSU. The PSU that I add has a switch for off and on. And have it in the back of the PC on the out side With all the wires on the inside of the case other then the 110AC power cord.



If you need to or just want to add more watts to your PC and have some PSU's not being used this is a money saver.


flyer01

PS: Its up to the sim'er to work with there video card to get CLoD or any other sim to work the best in there PC.

Congratulations!

Now we really reach a new level in placebo effect!

[jt_medina]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Congratulations!

Now we really reach a new level in placebo effect!

1+ And dare to try to convince him he is wrong.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Congratulations!

Now we really reach a new level in placebo effect!

Have to concur here.

Fitted new 700w OCZ psu from original Dell OE 350w psu.

Here are the Black Death Fraps results before and after, with identical ingame graphics settings and CCC preset.

Before -
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
4155, 212890, 6, 50, 19.517

After -
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
4130, 214891, 7, 50, 19.219

in-game AA off, card AA and anisotropic filter set to application controlled (so no AA at all then!)

Vertical refresh always off

All other card settings set to 'high performance'

SSAO off, V-Synch off, epilepsy off

All detail settings set to 'High', grass on, shadows on.


Ah well, at least I know I can upgrade the card now!

[LoBiSoMeM]

People still discussing this surreal theme? "Performance and PSU"?

Maybe this explain why some can't run CloD right anyway... "Hardware limitation"...

[Insuber]

Hey I am close to a large nuclear plant, this may explain the good performance of my PC !