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Do i need a new PSU

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assasin
assasin Original post #1
Mar 10, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Hi friends
i've a iBall 400w PSU for powering my rig.4 my rig's config see signature.
My prob is dat whenever i oc my proccy beyond 2.2GHz,sometimes it shows in the BIOS that 'Óverclocking failed' but if it boots up it runs fine.i've stress tested my proccy @ 2.5GHz & it was perfectly stable though temp was 60c.

I've even run my pc using 2 SMPS, the iBall 400w powering mobo+proccy and a Intex 400w powering the drives,but still faced the above prob though frequency was less.

So wat do u ppl think,is my PSU the main culprit that preventing me from Ocing smoothly.will a Zebronics PSU be enough to power my rig and support oc.

recently i've set up RAID 0 on my 2 160 GB hdd.whenever i boot into any OS (Xp or Vista ),windows performs a disk check,why does this happen.
dOm1naTOr
Mar 10, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Dun go for anormal Zebronics PSU as itll be somewhat same as ur current one.
Instead invest for some 1.6k for platinum 400 from Zebronics. Its real 400.
Orelse u can go for Platinum 500 for 2.2k
If u have more money to spend then get a powersafe 500W for 3k.
nileshgr
Mar 10, 2007 at 11:26 AM
assasin said:
Hi friends
i've a iBall 400w PSU for powering my rig.4 my rig's config see signature.
My prob is dat whenever i oc my proccy beyond 2.2GHz,sometimes it shows in the BIOS that 'Óverclocking failed' but if it boots up it runs fine.i've stress tested my proccy @ 2.5GHz & it was perfectly stable though temp was 60c.

I've even run my pc using 2 SMPS, the iBall 400w powering mobo+proccy and a Intex 400w powering the drives,but still faced the above prob though frequency was less.

So wat do u ppl think,is my PSU the main culprit that preventing me from Ocing smoothly.will a Zebronics PSU be enough to power my rig and support oc.

recently i've set up RAID 0 on my 2 160 GB hdd.whenever i boot into any OS (Xp or Vista ),windows performs a disk check,why does this happen.
u 've used so many shortcuts that i did not understand anything.
assasin
assasin #4
Mar 10, 2007 at 2:51 PM
assasin said:
recently i've set up RAID 0 on my 2 160 GB hdd.whenever i boot into any OS (Xp or Vista ),windows performs a disk check,why does this happen.


problem Solved
aquamatrix
Mar 10, 2007 at 4:25 PM
get a powersafe 450w for about 2k. dont go for iball, intex or zebronics.