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Hello, recently I went out and bought myself a gtx 770 and a power supply. Before you ask why I went out and bought a 7 series card in this day and age, it was only £70, and it supposedly performs better compared to the 1050 ti, which is £150. The power supply was a 750w modular one, with some unpopular brand called artic. I know this was a risky thing to do, but I have an i3-6100, one ssd, one hdd, a h110, one
o d.d and only one stick of 8gb RAM. According to pc part picker, this takes just 160w. Add the gpu, and it will take 410. I originally had a 430W power supply but I was told to upgrade. Now, I have overclocked my GPU by 140MHz and increased the core voltage by 2 and memory by 140MHz. I want to know if this power supply won't explode on me. I don't know the efficiency as yet, but I don't think it will be stressed because it's only 430w needed and I have like 320 spare. Would I be able to possibly upgrade my GPU to a 780? Would my psu allow it? And how long will he psu last? And what might happen when it goes? Note it only costed £33, had plain cardboard as packaging, didn't come with a power plug, but came with sata and molex and PCIe. And is there any way to test what efficiency it's running and without blowing my house up?

Now on to the GPU. I have a 60Hz monitor overclocked to 74Hz. I have a I3-6100 and a gtx 770. These are the games I would like to play in the near future:

Overwatch
Battlefield 4
GTA V(maybe not)
CSGO

I know my cpu isn't the best, but I will not be upgrading so please don't tell me to. I want to constantly get 1080p on these games. Please could you tell me:

How many frames would I get if I played these games at ultra?

How many frames would I get if I played these games at max?

If I wanted to achieve 74fps at 1080p, what graphics would I be playing at (normal, ultra)?


 
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Here, Artic are under tier 5 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html?_ga=1.45879201.444711102.1480286851

Don't get hung up on wattage alone, on its own its meaningless. However your PSU is in the tier where most lie about max wattage, some only manage 1/2 their claimed wattage before frying. You also have next to no safety features so if it does go pop there is a good chance it will damage other components. Then you have the low quality components and poor build quality, all PSU's degrade over time, low quality ones degrade much quicker.

Then you have how clean the power is. A dirty power supply can reduce the life of other parts in your pc.

In short get a decent PSU.

The 780 needs a good quality 600w with at least 42A on the 12v rail.
 
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Haha xD I can't believe i got a life threatening power supply 🙁 I will not be changing it though. I will keep my power supply clean. Lets hope it doesn't damage my build or me. Im actually scared now!!! Ok and what about the graphics questions? And one more thing. By keeping this power supply, when it does go, will it certainly take out other parts? Even if i keep it in good condition? And how do i keep a power supply in good condition so i dont... die. thanks!
 
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When I say clean I mean the power it supplies, not the unit itself. A good quality unit will have stable 12v, 5v & 3.3v but a cheap dirty supply will have fluctuations and spikes in these voltages which your other parts don't like. If it was my own pc I would change it immediately, a PSU can fail with absolutely no warning, its a ticking time bomb.
 
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The RX 470 is probably the 1080p sweetspot. It sits just a bit over the 1050 ti and just a bit under the RX 480. I'd reckon you would be even able to pick up an rx 480 because of how closely priced they are in some areas.
 
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