Geist
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 Posted: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:17:59 Post Subject: hmpf.... |
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Hi Spike and Thx for the welcome. 
Well some thoughts to mention on the 3.3 V rail: my 3.3 V rail was extremely jumpy not to say crappy (sometimes at 2.65 Volts!!!) back then when I had my 450 W BeQuiet running my rig (spec see post above). The 12 V rail was near dead, too, and that was because of the pressie drained too much, while beeing clocked at 3.8 ghz. With default specs I had no probs at all.
"When you up the voltage to acheive a faster overclock, how does that affect the actual power that a CPU draws?" <-> You won´t want to tell me an overclocked cpu doesn´t consume a greater amount of watt, do you? Every component you overclock gets more volts, runs faster in terms of herz, gets hotter (well most... ) and consume more power, of course. It´s that simple. An overclocked cpu stresses a 12 V rail more than when it´s run on default specs. So that was my point... That´s maybe why ppl tend to say "faster=more need of power"; the point is actually that you want a stronger 12 V rail with plenty amperes. The Ryanpower2 i.e. calims to be able to hold a 30 amps peak. And THAT´s what I wanted to point out. You just can´t "peak" this psu with a 2.4A cpu. And this is pretty much like "overclockers 101"....
I mean....oh my, maybe this is just some of these "scatter my current believes in how things work"-day, but if so, then please explain me why I´m wrong!
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