[SOLVED] Is it safe to overclock my gpu using this PSU ?

[neagumihai961]

System:
Asus hm110-cs
Gtx 1070 ti
Intel i7 6700k(stock speed)
2x8 Gb 2400MHz
Njoy legion 600 psu: https://www.njoy.ro/PSU/legion-600#specificatii

I've overclocked the GPU's core clock by +200 and the memory clock by 500. I ran a stress test for 20 minutes at an overclock of +270/+800 and it was stable but i turned it down a bit to feel more safe. I also used psu calculators to see what my load wattage would be and it was around 450W. I'm more worried that the psu is pretty cheap and idk if it's good enough for overclocking. There's also a slight noise when i run games coming from the psu, I've read about it and people are saying that it's coil noise and that's it's nothing to worry about. I've been running games with my gpu overclocked for about a week now and there's been no problem until now but i'm still worried and I was wondering if one of you guys could give me an opinion about the psu.

 

[RememberThe5th]

I really cannot find any review of that psu.My worry is that it offers only 3 year warranty...
87% / 90% / 87%

20% / 50% / 100% load

???? That is in theory not possible with 70€ PSU... at 100% load.
The atx 2.3 standard is from 2007 and from looking at its side, that small heatsink for mosfets its kinda not good sign.
I would compare it to VS Orange series.

But since you have quite high end PC, why not get a good PSU?
Also GPU overclock without touching voltage would not increase the power consumption, only voltage and maybe power limit (I saw 20W~ increase in power draw when i overclocked my 1050Ti to the max).

Which stress test did you use?

 

[neagumihai961]

I really cannot find any review of that psu.My worry is that it offers only 3 year warranty...
87% / 90% / 87%

20% / 50% / 100% load

???? That is in theory not possible with 70€ PSU... at 100% load.
The atx 2.3 standard is from 2007 and from looking at its side, that small heatsink for mosfets its kinda not good sign.
I would compare it to VS Orange series.

But since you have quite high end PC, why not get a good PSU?
Also GPU overclock without touching voltage would not increase the power consumption, only voltage and maybe power limit (I saw 20W~ increase in power draw when i overclocked my 1050Ti to the max).

Which stress test did you use?

well, i wouldn't consider my pc a high end one. a more expensive psu was out of my budget. i used the kombustor stress test.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Agree with RememberThe5th, the PSU is the weak link there, specially with OC. If you are only OC'ing the 1070ti, then you could be okay. But as RememerThe5th said, with only a 3 year warranty, it could go at any time. It may not do, but I wouldn't like to risk it.

Getting something like this would be a great option:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ B&H)
Total: $59.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-23 06:49 EST-0500

Reasonably priced, superb quality, long warranty. Plenty for OC'ing both CPU and GPU and be sound in your mind nothing will go wrong from a PSU perspective.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well you would not consider, but I will.
But I cannot find any info from that PSU.
You might check in software how it is doing under load, but physically like JonnyGuru does, you cannot.

Download HwInfo64 https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
Run it into sensor mode,there will be a lot of stuff,
on upper it will show you min avg max tabs which will divide like that.

If you scroll down a bit where does say your motherboard name in grey row,
like this

You see the voltages, now every voltage should not get under or exceed the 5% of the 3.3V, 5V and 12V rail. If it does not, i would consider kinda safe psu.

Forgot to add, download AIDA64, and under tools you will see stress test, untick everything and tick only GPU and CPU and stress it for around 1 minute and see if the voltage did drop a lot.