oczdude8 :
Dayle McNeela :
oczdude8 :
It wont effect standard Ocing. It will only effect you if you are trying to squeeze every last bit from your cpu and break ocing records.
If you just want to do a modest oc, it should be fine, however a cheap psu may not deliver very clean voltages and my put extra strain on your mobos power regulation components, effectively reducing its life span.
if you are using the corsair cx, you should know its not a low quality psu. its midrange psu and it should be perfectly fine for OCing.
My i5 3570K is 3.4GHz at stock, I plan to overclock to 4.0-4.4GHz... I do hear that you can OC this CPU to 4.8GHz but i wont be going that high...
You should also know I am using a single GPU in my system also... (EVGA GTX760 ACX)
It should be okay, but you may have problems with your power supply not having enough wattage/amps. You will be/are putting a lot of strain on your psu.
Can I ask why I might not have enough wattage/amps?
My GPU will use 170watt MAX (according to NVidia)
My CPU will use like 77watt (possible 100watt when OCd?)
HDD and SDD cant use much surely? say 20watts
Motherboard... say 50watts
Cooling fans... say 50watts
thats 390watts?