I'd suggest 650W as an absolute minimum for low to moderate systems these days....go 850 or higher (depending on available funds of course) if you can.

Hi chaps,

I bit the bullet and popped out lunchtime and got a new 650w PSU which I'll fit this evening. I just haven't got the funds to go for a bigger one right now. My rig is far from state-of-the-art so I think that a 650w will hopefully suffice although your point is a good one Jim. Either way it is a start to putting things right, I worked out very roughly that my PC does at the very least 40-50 hours a week and over four years that 8,000-10,000 plus hours so the poor old chap/chapesse (very PC "politically correct" there) :D could do with a well earned retirement so that it can see out its twilight years in the "Sunnyside Rest and Retirement Home for Senior PSUs" AKA my collection of knackered and/or obsolescent PC components, past and present :D

Cheers

Leigh

May this be the beginning of the end to your computer woes http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9425/praydl5rp5.gif

Hope so Jim, but, as Churchill famously said:

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

:D

Cheers

Leigh

Good one,:salute:

Rgr that mate :sunny:

Spoken like someone from "the unsinkeable aircraft carrier"!!
rock on!:D

It sure sounds like the thermal protector in the PSU is culprit, since you have to shut off the main power switch and wait a few seconds before turning it back on.

Hi chaps,

I fitted the new PSU, a real PITA as I had to take about half the pc apart to get the main ATX power connectors on as the sockets were right under the drive bays but so far so good, the PC seems to be running about 10 degrees cooler and I ran the X-com demo without crashing. Too early to say but it certainly hasn't done any harm.

Cheers

Leigh

Good news,:up:

Yup, thanks, so far so good just flew some intense online missions in War Thunder, very smooth no PC shut down and then the same thing with x-com. CPU temp maxed at 60 degrees where before it was getting uop toward 70 degrees and the PC was shutting down. Too early to say if it is the effect of a new cooling fan in the PSU or whether the PSU itself is running cooler but quite please with an evening's work so far.

Cheers

Leigh

Good news :sunny:

PowwwerSoft CPU Monitor works fine to check CPU temps. Good to hear the 650w PSU is helping too Leigh. I've been using a modular 600w PSU from Ultra X3 with no problems.

But when you can afford it, do get the H-60 liquid cooling unit. Much quieter than fan cooling alone, and more efficient. If you can find an H-50 that will be a bit less expensive. That's what I have right now and it works fine with my 2.81 i5 quadcore.

Thanks mate,

I do like the look of that unit, maybe in the new year I'll have a bit of free cash to spend on my PC. I've not done too bad this year revamping it , new GPU, second hard disk, windows 7, soundblaster card, new keyboard and HOTAS setup.

Cheer and thanks for the help and tips.

Leigh

The H50 is for Intel CPU's only. The H60 has a new version out for 2013, the fan has been redesigned to be more efficient and quieter too, and it works with both Intel and ADM CPU's.

:salute:

I noticed when using cpu-z that the value of tRAS in the SPD was 18 and the BIOS had auto set it to 31. Although this isn't a CPU issue, setting it manually to 18 in the BIOS has speeded up my PC significantly.

Cheers

Aces

I didn't know that about the H-50 Dave. Thanks for the info on it. And tell the guys I said hi.

I haven't used my Cougar or flown anything since last spring. As of now it's not even installed since my last reinstall of XP 3 weeks agao. Maybe one of these days......