Power Supply Units Explained.

[Flexx17]

take it from.... me my older gts250 killed bout 5 of those same cheap PSUs in less than a month (though it was OC'ed). its not wise to trust your high end merchandise to those low end PSUs....its better you crank out 1 big money to get a decent PSU than to be buying one every week

[Powpow]

take it from.... me my older gts250 killed bout 5 of those same cheap PSUs in less than a month (though it was OC'ed). its not wise to trust your high end merchandise to those low end PSUs....its better you crank out 1 big money to get a decent PSU than to be buying one every week

Well Flexx from yuh said yuh OC'ed then that says a lot lol. I bet yuh is not the card alone yuh overclocked.

Remember my rig is kinda a low-mid range one right now, and as I said I not overclocking this card on t his current rig I got.

[Flexx17]

Well Flexx from yuh said yuh OC'ed then that says a lot lol. I bet yuh is not the card alone yuh overclocked.

Remember my rig is kinda a low-mid range one right now, and as I said I not overclocking this card on t his current rig I got.

that rig was pretty much same specs like yours

originally it was:
CPU- q9650 but it died (long story) so at that time i had in a P4 HT OC'ed to 3.6ghz
2gb DDR3 ram
MSI G41M-P33 Board
GTS 250
1tb WD HDD

but as you said yeah lol pretty much everything was OC'ed

[Powpow]

Well I got the card last week and so far it's running great. Was having some temperature issues when using "Need for Speed the Run" to test it out. Went up to about 80 degrees celcius and did some research and found out that the fan speed could be increased lol.

Brought the speed up to about 50% and also did some cable managment and in "Mass Effect" getting temps of about 50-61 degrees celsius. Considering this is a stocked OC card I guess this is the normal temperature range for this type of card.

The power supply I posted ealier is working good so far with the card and the other monitor I got, so I got two(2) monitors running on it now and having no issues. Plan to get a better power supply eventually though to be on the safe side.

[wheelman]

Great write up Xeno.

[Powpow]

Here's a website that you can use for more information on the amount and type of power supply you might want to use for a particular build:

http://www.squidoo.com/best-psu-power-supply

It also recommends this PSU calculator to help in the decision so give it a try:

http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/Power