How much power do RGB LED strips use?

[Jimbo832]

Just curious on how many watts these sorta kits use, I recently purshased one and am afraid I may be maxing out my power supply output. The exact model is http://www.deepcool.com/product/dcoolingaccessory/accessory/2014-07/48_922.shtml
Help Appreciated

 

[xidiliar]

It takes a lot of leds to use a noticable amount of power. Adding LED strips to your PC will not max out your power supply because chances are if you were already stressing your psu that much you would already be having problems.

 

[Jimbo832]

It takes a lot of leds to use a noticable amount of power. Adding LED strips to your PC will not max out your power supply because chances are if you were already stressing your psu that much you would already be having problems.

18 Leds in the kit, so yeah I know I'm getting near the end of my power supply limit, and its not very quality either :/ Time for a upgrade i guess...

 

[xidiliar]

What I meant was I wouldn't worry about it. If each one of those LEDs used 100 milliamps of power, that's a lot for an led by the way, the strip would only use 1.6 watts total. What kind of power supply do you have?

 

[Jimbo832]

What I meant was I wouldn't worry about it. If each one of those LEDs used 100 milliamps of power, that's a lot for an led by the way, the strip would only use 1.6 watts total. What kind of power supply do you have?

Corsair VS550

 

[xidiliar]

That's actually a pretty decent power supply and it's 80 plus certified. I wouldn't worry about upgrading it if I were you. You'll be fine.

 

[Jimbo832]

That's actually a pretty decent power supply and it's 80 plus certified. I wouldn't worry about upgrading it if I were you. You'll be fine.

Well the whole reason I was asking was because my computer has been crashing after playing games for a while and I thought it might be my PSU

 

[xidiliar]

When you say the computer is crashing what do you mean? Shutting down with no errors? Can you list the rest of your build specs?

 

[Jimbo832]

When you say the computer is crashing what do you mean? Shutting down with no errors? Can you list the rest of your build specs?

Some times the screen goes all like this http://imgur.com/jx4wWkp and a loud staticy sorta sound plays, some times the screen just goes black. Both times the computer stays powered on. Specs: I5 4400, 8Gb Hyper X fury 1886 MHZ, Asus B85M-G, 2TB seagate HDD, Corsair VS550, Gigabyte R9 280X

 

[xidiliar]

Have you updated the graphics card drivers? Does the screen ever do that when your not playing a game? Seems more like a GPU issue than the power supply.

 

[Jimbo832]

Have you updated the graphics card drivers? Does the screen ever do that when your not playing a game? Seems more like a GPU issue than the power supply.

No only when gaming, after like 30 mins or so

 

[xidiliar]

Try re-installing the GPU drivers. It sounds like either the drivers are crashing after playing for awhile or your card is overheating. Make sure you completely uninstall the old drivers and then install the new ones. AMD recommends against installing new drivers over top of old ones.

 

[Jimbo832]

Try re-installing the GPU drivers. It sounds like either the drivers are crashing after playing for awhile or your card is overheating. Make sure you completely uninstall the old drivers and then install the new ones. AMD recommends against installing new drivers over top of old ones.

Okay thank you very much, I will try this. I don't think the GPU is overheating because I was constantly checking temps and they seemed fine

 

[Jimbo832]

I uninstalled the reinstalled drivers but problem persists, any ideas?