80 PLUS

Forum discussion tagged with 80 PLUS.
  1. Iver Hicarte

    Question Can I add an additional 4-pin ATX power connector/cable to my Current PSU?

    I have a Corsair RM750i 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply, I have owned it for 5 years now without any hiccups. I did a motherboard upgrade recently and this mobo of mine has an additional 4 pin ATX connector which is only used by "extreme" overclockers and only for extreme...
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    [SOLVED] Corsair cx-650f psu coil whine and efficiency question

    Just installed my Corsair cx psu and Ive noticed There's an aggregious coil whine, I'm just wondering if it's worth returning as in hindsight I maybe should've got a more energy efficient and higher quality PSU :/ in these times where energy prices are so high (I'm in the UK) do you think I...
  3. Moth254KF

    [SOLVED] Should I upgrade my PSU or get a Not Break?

    Since it looks like I would get a gpu (The 1660 Super With a 4790=Less than 500w) until 2022 (thanks bitcoin) I was thinking, should upgrade my psu or get a not break? Since I read in this website a lot of threats said that the ThermalTake Lite 550w Series is just "no so good". First of all, I...
  4. hotfusion

    [SOLVED] Which one of these is the best PSU?

    Hi, There have been some cheap 80 plus Bronze PSU's popping up on Amazon lately. 3 of them I have seen are from an unknown or non-popular brand, but Antec has also joined the party. Antec's new PSU called Antec Atom B550 is a 500 watt PSU with an 80 Plus Bronze rating, looking at the specs...
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    Raid 0 or spanning. which is faster?

    this has been asked before but responders have got mixed up with disk types etc. I have 3 identical samsung 256 pro ssds connected to a pcie 4 sata port, 6gbs card. I can set these up as RAID 0 or Spanned disks. Which would be faster? Spanned or RAID 0?
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    Why is my computer so slow these days

    Hi there So I've had my computer for a year now and it's really starting to slow down. Just yesterday it took almost 10 minutes for it to boot up and other normal days it would be 5 minutes. When it finally boots me to the desktop screen, it still takes so long to load all my apps and icons in...
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    External connection will not read Seagate hard drives. Hooked up 9 drives (1 at a time) read 6, no problem, except 3 Seagate

    I have 9 hard drives from old computers that I wanted to take files off of. Bought a portable hook up kit, which worked great on 6 hard drives; 2-Western Digital, 2-Hitachi Desk Star, 1-Samsung and 1-Maxtor. Worked great on the 6, but could not get the 3 to work. Then I noticed that all 3 are...
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    FX-8350 clock drops under heavy loads

    Hey, so my FX-8350 speed drops from 4.00 to 1.35 every 10 secounds, and lasts 5 secounds, until it jumps back up to 4.00, (load is 99% andd rops to 35) my motherboard is asrock 970 extreme 4, cpu cooler is Akasa AK-968 Picture from performance manager...
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    Yahoo Mail is not working properly

    I can open Yahoo Mail in Chrome, IE but not on Firefox on my main computer. I can open up Yahoo Mail on every other computer I have no matter what browser I use. It is just the one computer that has an issue with Yahoo Mail. Everything else works great. This is what is causing it. Any ideas on...