sufficient power ?

[alzh13]

Hi,

i am trying to build myself a new rig, and i am stuck with the power supply choice. Need your help to intro a good one.

here are the config that i am going for,

Prcoessor CORE I5 4690K (4C/4T) 3.5GHz 4.0GHz 6M cache
Cooler Corsair H100i HYDRO COOLING
Motherboard ASUS Z97-A
Memory Corsair 1866 C9 VENGEANCE (4Gx2)
GPU ASUS GTX970 4GB DCU II STRIX
HDD WD 1TB Green
SSD SAMSUNG 850 EVO 120GB
Casing CARBIDE 400R

Kindly advice me how many watts to go for

the store that i am getting at has only the brands below

Corsair
COOLER MASTER
Seasonic
Silverstone

thank you guys your help is very much appreciated.

 

[Archaic59]

A Seasonic around 500-600 watts would work well.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Agreed. All Seasonic units are very good.

 

[Computer Blackwidow]

Dont get Corsair and Cooler Master, they uses poor Chinese Capacitors and a bad transformer which is not good for extreme gaming and overclocking. I will recommend Seasonic. It has great Japanese capacitors and a good transformer, is best for overclocking and Gaming. If you dont want modular then Seasonic S12-II series is good for budget and want a modular one then M12-II series series is good for budget. If you can spend little more then get the G2 series, it is specially gaming series. Good Luck.
CB

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Dont get Corsair and Cooler Master, they uses poor Chinese Capacitors and a bad transformer which is not good for extreme gaming and overclocking. I will recommend Seasonic. It has great Japanese capacitors and a good transformer, is best for overclocking and Gaming. If you dont want modular then Seasonic S12-II series is good for budget and want a modular one then M12-II series series is good for budget. If you can spend little more then get the G2 series, it is specially gaming series. Good Luck.
CB

That's not really true. There are Corsair and CoolerMaster units as good as anything on the market. You can't generalize by brand anymore except maybe Seasonic. They make high quality across the board.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html


I'd love to see that 4790K stable at 5.4Ghz on an H100........And Corsair DDR3 1866 overclocked to 2400? Pretty amazing. What timings and voltage? What voltage on the 4790K? Call me skeptical but those specs look made up to me.

 

[Jomari Gonzales]

Seasonic 600+ watts if you're gonna OC

 

[Computer Blackwidow]

Dont get Corsair and Cooler Master, they uses poor Chinese Capacitors and a bad transformer which is not good for extreme gaming and overclocking. I will recommend Seasonic. It has great Japanese capacitors and a good transformer, is best for overclocking and Gaming. If you dont want modular then Seasonic S12-II series is good for budget and want a modular one then M12-II series series is good for budget. If you can spend little more then get the G2 series, it is specially gaming series. Good Luck.
CB

That's not really true. There are Corsair and CoolerMaster units as good as anything on the market. You can't generalize by brand anymore except maybe Seasonic. They make high quality across the board.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html


I'd love to see that 4790K stable at 5.4Ghz on an H100........And Corsair DDR3 1866 overclocked to 2400? Pretty amazing. What timings and voltage? What voltage on the 4790K? Call me skeptical but those specs look made up to me.

CPU: i7 4790k @ 5.4 GHz
Voltage: 1.365v
Stable when tested by Prime95 28.5 for 5 hours

Memory:
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 @ 2400 MHz.
Channel: Dual Channel
Voltage: 1.65
Timing: 10-12-12-31.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It's DDR3 1866 overclocked to 2400? And you run that at 5.4Ghz 24/7? Or just a benchmarking run? Because electromigration is gonna kill that thing quick at 1.36v. Especially with only an H100.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Also curious where you got an engineering sample chip from?

 

[Computer Blackwidow]

It's DDR3 1866 overclocked to 2400? And you run that at 5.4Ghz 24/7? Or just a benchmarking run? Because electromigration is gonna kill that thing quick at 1.36v. Especially with only an H100.

No, you can say it just a benchmarking run. I go step by step increasing ratio, increased voltage whenever crashed and I got this OC. I do gaming, lots of video editing, rendering, and 3D animation. I have saved such profiles in my bios that I saved when I overclocked my CPU. No, it do not 24/7. I switch that profiles dependent on the work. If I want some video editing and gaming and low profile 2D animation, I run the stock. When I have to do High 3D animation, rendering, lots of video editing, sometimes they run 2-3 at a time, then I switch the 5.4 GHz profile and other mid profiles dependent on work. I never had any issues yet. After testing by prime95 for 5 hours my maximum temp is 75-76(fluctuate between 70-76). I switch that extreme profile 2-3 time in a week.
CB

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Anything over 1.3v is dangerous to 22nm chips especially without a custom water loop.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1808604/intel-temperature-guide.html

 

[Computer Blackwidow]

It's DDR3 1866 overclocked to 2400? And you run that at 5.4Ghz 24/7? Or just a benchmarking run? Because electromigration is gonna kill that thing quick at 1.36v. Especially with only an H100.

Anything over 1.3v is dangerous to 22nm chips especially without a custom water loop.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1808604/intel-temperature-guide.html

Thanks and I am going to switch to custom water loop soon. Thanks again.
CB

 

[Lutfij]

Pardon me OP, but Computer Blackwidow; why does your CPU-Z screenshot look very similar to this screenshot by Ryan Shrout on PCPer?

Your ES screenshot;

Ryan Shrout's ES screenshot;

Points to note;
1| You have the exact same voltage as that performed by Ryan Shrout yet you have a much higher overclock in spite of both having an ES to test drive
2| The dimensions to your CPU-Z screenshot/crop is exactly the same as the one you have - now that can be coincidence but anyone with the exact same dimensions for a crop irrespective of cultural parallelism...? Not to mention the exact same CPU-Z version and you running the same OS
3| I ran both images in Photoshop and did a comparison, the pixels are off for the Core Clocks and Multiplier exactly where the 46 in 4698.90 is and x47 is and (8-47)
4| An H100 can't even pull off the temps that you have stated - this coming from OCN's community.

None of the info you've posted add up mate.

Could you also state the voltages to that 2400MHz CL10 overclock? I've got a couple of people who use them and only managed to get to CL11 or looser on 2133MHz anything tighter than that and BSOD galore. Again I'll take your settings into consideration and work with a ball park range for tweaking to get 2400MHz overclock on the kit.