so, in the last 6 months i have gone thu 2 power supplies in my newly built pc, and im pretty sure this next one will be dead soon as well.
initially i had a 350watt that came with the case when i ordered it. it was useless right off the bat~causing the harddrives to fail and the monitor to go out at some point.
i replaced the psu with a 450watt/dual fan and it ran just fine for about 4 months, but then the symptoms of my harddrives failing began to show again.. knowing what the problem was, i emediatly replaced the psu with and even better one.
now currently, i am using a 550watt/dual exhaust. about a week ago there was a power outage. i was very upset to learn that all of my music and half of my videos had magically become corrupt.
whats even more annoying is the random shut-offs i've been having. it's really difficult to play final fantasy XI when your pc dies every 2-3 hours.
so what i want to know is if this is really just a psu problem or if there's something more to it. i have updated my BIOS, and i have turned my processor down a little as well. after doing, so the shut-offs ended but now the monitor goes out instead.
thank god for warranties..who knew for 10 extra bucks id get as many psu's as i wanted -_^
PC Specs:
Asus AV7600-X
Athlon 3200
768mgs RAM
Nvidia Asylum 256mgs
Current PC Monitor:
CPUtemp 40C/104F
MBtemp 34C/93F
+12v 12.736
+5v 5.107
+3.3v 3.328
VCore 1.664
initially i had a 350watt that came with the case when i ordered it. it was useless right off the bat~causing the harddrives to fail and the monitor to go out at some point.
i replaced the psu with a 450watt/dual fan and it ran just fine for about 4 months, but then the symptoms of my harddrives failing began to show again.. knowing what the problem was, i emediatly replaced the psu with and even better one.
now currently, i am using a 550watt/dual exhaust. about a week ago there was a power outage. i was very upset to learn that all of my music and half of my videos had magically become corrupt.
whats even more annoying is the random shut-offs i've been having. it's really difficult to play final fantasy XI when your pc dies every 2-3 hours.
so what i want to know is if this is really just a psu problem or if there's something more to it. i have updated my BIOS, and i have turned my processor down a little as well. after doing, so the shut-offs ended but now the monitor goes out instead.
thank god for warranties..who knew for 10 extra bucks id get as many psu's as i wanted -_^
PC Specs:
Asus AV7600-X
Athlon 3200
768mgs RAM
Nvidia Asylum 256mgs
Current PC Monitor:
CPUtemp 40C/104F
MBtemp 34C/93F
+12v 12.736
+5v 5.107
+3.3v 3.328
VCore 1.664