Hi-Power Black 700W PSU advice

MilkyWay · Aug 2, 2008

Read the psu guide it didnt really help me so i decided to ask.

Im thinking of getting the Hi-Power Black 700W PSU and i need to know if it isnt a crappy psu, ive seen a lot of ezcool psu and i have one just now and would like to stay away from them.

Dont worry about the price im not buying it from ebuyer.

All i want to know is it any good?

Currently i have a 500W Ezcool crappy mc crappyson.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135197

MilkyWay · Aug 2, 2008

i bet its shit just wanted to ask since the specs seem good nad it had good ebuyer reviews

only have around £30-£35 to spend on a psu and i know that is not a lot

mullered07 · Aug 3, 2008

its probably better than your ezcool your using atm, but there not a very good brand afaik, i was tempted to buy a 700w modular hi-power psu myself recently until i opted for my coolermaster 520w which will undoubtably last me longer and be more stable, sometimes less is more, for instance my coolermaster would power an sli/crossfire system and i would be very dubious about using the hi-power psu you mentioned in a similar setup

mullered07 · Aug 3, 2008

MilkyWay said:
i bet its shit just wanted to ask since the specs seem good nad it had good ebuyer reviews

only have around £30-£35 to spend on a psu and i know that is not a lot

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131052 stretch to that and youll be fine

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

my psu is making me BSOD all the time

i need one thats higher wattage than the one i have but is a little bit quality because thing is i think its to do with voltage and my psu, a better higher power psu will solve my problems

check my spec to see i think a 550watt should be okay but a 600watt would be prefereable

mullered07 · Aug 3, 2008

MilkyWay said:
my psu is making me BSOD all the time

i need one thats higher wattage than the one i have but is a little bit quality because thing is i think its to do with voltage and my psu, a better higher power psu will solve my problems

check my spec to see i think a 550watt should be okay but a 600watt would be prefereable

a good 500w is more than sufficient, theres also an antec basiqpower for around £40 on ebuyer if you cant stretch to the corsair.

its not higher wattage you need, you need a good quality and stable psu from a reputable brand with decent rails, and how do you know the psu is causing your bsod' ?

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

Because i have another thread and we came to conclusion that it was the psu.
Ive tried replacing the ram and cpu and i know my motherboard is fine, my graphics card isnt the problem either.

Recently i had a few IRQ bsods i used to get and i was told it was ram or driver realated. I replaced the ram with better stuff, i thought it was conflicting IRQ and memory addresses then i found out devices can share and use IRQ and memory address and this was normal.

It cant be a faulty cpu socket either as ive had cpus running in it before, i got bsods with my old cpu too so the problem has to be linked. Ive gotten vista ultimate 64x since changing hardware too so it cant be driver ect.

So i guessed it was the PSU, since when i overclock im guarenteed a bsod even i little overclock i knew it was the psu, the psu dosnt like increases in voltage and i have new hardware like my new hard drive and dvd drive i have lots of fans connected up too 6 of them in all.

I think the psu cant handle all that voltage and maybe the hardware needs a little more power.

Since its an old psu by at least 2yrs maybe more i knew i shouldnt be running it!

sorry for the long speech :eek:

mullered07 · Aug 3, 2008

i think you need to invest in a better psu, but i wouldnt put ur bsod's down to it without being positive thats what it is, am i right in saying you have the same mainboard as me or did they also make an earlier AM2 board (m,ines AM2+) because i have a hard time overclocking this board and have had frequent bsod's since purchasing it. after troubleshooting everything i came to the conclusion it was the memory but this was only an educated guess at best. i think the k9a2-cf doesnt overclock well and everytime i do it craps out on me and gives me bsod, the rest of my system is well upto the oc, but it just isnt stable hence im thinking the msi k9a2, is a good stable budget cf board with little to none oc capabilities

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

hmmn lol i have the msi k9a platinum its the old crossfire 3200 chipset

am2 not am2+

its been run at 3240 odd before so i know my board is fine

the psu has only got a 20pin atx connector also so it might not be getting a lot of power to the board fast or the correct amount of power

its a good crossfire board i have just that i only own a 8800gt so its not any use to me

i noticed it has a molex connector on the board for extra power to the graphics card, for crossfire stability and other stuff

the psu sucks anyway since it ran out of molex connectors, it dosnt even have any sata power connectors or pci ex connectors and it uses 6 fans!! 2 of which are daisy chained together

mullered07 · Aug 3, 2008

what settings did you use to get to 3200mhz, like htt voltage/multiplier, cpu voltage, nb voltage etc, could do with some help to getting this X3 to 2.5/2.6Ghz

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

cpu is 1.35v +10% this board has a percentage voltage for extra to make it go as high as 1.7v i think
14x multi with i cant remember the bus speed
16x 200mhz is exactly 3200mhz

Ht link was for me at 600mhz but youve got a AM2+board and its HT link is different
Ht link was 1.4v and nb was 1.9v
my mobo has no ht link multi setting unfortunatly

its a shame my bios is up to 1.375v and not 1.4v because other people with my board get 1.4v

my ram is allways at 1.9v 800mhz if it goes higher i just bump up the voltage to 2v

try just raising the multi with it set at 200mhz

twicksisted · Aug 3, 2008

you going to spend about £10 per 100W for a decent psu...
but more importantly that the total wattage i would say is the amperage on the 12v rail/s

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

how about this psu?

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=66155

added bonus its modular

kyle2020 · Aug 3, 2008

MilkyWay said:
Because i have another thread and we came to conclusion that it was the psu.
Ive tried replacing the ram and cpu and i know my motherboard is fine, my graphics card isnt the problem either.

Recently i had a few IRQ bsods i used to get and i was told it was ram or driver realated. I replaced the ram with better stuff, i thought it was conflicting IRQ and memory addresses then i found out devices can share and use IRQ and memory address and this was normal.

It cant be a faulty cpu socket either as ive had cpus running in it before, i got bsods with my old cpu too so the problem has to be linked. Ive gotten vista ultimate 64x since changing hardware too so it cant be driver ect.

So i guessed it was the PSU, since when i overclock im guarenteed a bsod even i little overclock i knew it was the psu, the psu dosnt like increases in voltage and i have new hardware like my new hard drive and dvd drive i have lots of fans connected up too 6 of them in all.

I think the psu cant handle all that voltage and maybe the hardware needs a little more power.

Since its an old psu by at least 2yrs maybe more i knew i shouldnt be running it!

sorry for the long speech

Was the BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL? its just i have an EZ-cool PSU and i have been experiencing that bsod amongst others, i was tempted to buy new ram last week thinking it was that. I didnt know PSU's could cause BSOD's? :eek:

Cybrnook2002 · Aug 3, 2008

I did some searching on the ebuyer website for you. I found this. It would be great for you. PLUS, its a single 12v rail. Which is better for equal power distribution.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135514

DonInKansas · Aug 3, 2008

+1 to the poster above. I run a frigteningly similar system to you and my Corsair 520HX powers it along nicely.

kyle2020 · Aug 3, 2008

DonInKansas said:
+1 to the poster above. I run a frigteningly similar system to you and my Corsair 520HX powers it along nicely.

that is quite scary haha - so no BSOD's or anything? i think ill go with that one posted as its just a bit more meaty, future proof for my Q6600.

DonInKansas · Aug 3, 2008

Never blackscreened due to power; handles my little OC nicely. More overhead for futureproofing should be nice for you though, especially with the quad plans. You can donate that Blacky to me when you get that built. :laugh:

Cybrnook2002 · Aug 3, 2008

I am totally fine with 600 watts. Another thing, try this little guy here.
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

its a cool little calculator. According to this thing. Even with my 5 hard drives, oc cpu, crossfire setup im still 100 watts shy of maxing out.

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL i do get those but i was getting some other errors

apparently if you change your drivers for your motherboard and your graphics card to the latest sometimes those type of BSOD disappear

it could be either the ram but the PSU is to blame for me

i dont think it can handle the voltage increases

its strange tho i havnt overclocked my pc and its worked fine so far

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/w2000Msgs/6077.mspx?mfr=true

If you encounter this error while upgrading to a newer version of Windows, it might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version.

Damn now im even more confused could it be trhe bios that is the problem for me then that would explain all that IRQ and memory address problems?

Still need a new PSU anyway since this is an old POS

kyle2020 · Aug 3, 2008

MilkyWay said:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/w2000Msgs/6077.mspx?mfr=true

If you encounter this error while upgrading to a newer version of Windows, it might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version.

Damn now im even more confused could it be trhe bios that is the problem for me then that would explain all that IRQ and memory address problems?

Still need a new PSU anyway since this is an old POS

i flashed my bios at the first BSOD but it still comes, so i think you can rule that out. Ran memtest?

kyle2020 · Aug 3, 2008

DonInKansas said:
Never blackscreened due to power; handles my little OC nicely. More overhead for futureproofing should be nice for you though, especially with the quad plans. You can donate that Blacky to me when you get that built.

haha ill sell it to you, as the egyptians would say, "For very nice price" lmao.

MilkyWay · Aug 3, 2008

its not just ram its all memory on the pc so that includes graphics card memory and cpu cache

I KNOW IT CANT BE THE RAM OR THE CPU CACHE although why i cant overclock would seem to indicate it was cpu cache

cant be ram memtest is fine and its new, cant be cpu since my old one did this too and it worked fine for Dark who i bought it from

the link i see is the graphics card it could have faulty ram but there is no way of telling if that is the case

kyle2020 · Aug 3, 2008

MilkyWay said:
its not just ram its all memory on the pc so that includes graphics card memory and cpu cache

I KNOW IT CANT BE THE RAM OR THE CPU CACHE although why i cant overclock would seem to indicate it was cpu cache

cant be ram memtest is fine and its new, cant be cpu since my old one did this too and it worked fine for Dark who i bought it from

the link i see is the graphics card it could have faulty ram but there is no way of telling if that is the case

true. Im replacing my PSU anyway in time for the Quad upgrade, i just hope it solves both our problems!

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System Name	Ma Biatch
Processor	i7 860
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3A
Cooling	Noctua
Memory	8gb (4x2gb) G-Skill
Video Card(s)	GTX 470
Storage	WD5000aaks raid0
Display(s)	Sony Bravia 37" 1080p
Case	CM 690
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair HX520
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate

System Name	Ma Biatch
Processor	i7 860
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3A
Cooling	Noctua
Memory	8gb (4x2gb) G-Skill
Video Card(s)	GTX 470
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Case	CM 690
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair HX520
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