Jony Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Hi, I've bought a brand new pc with the following specs; ASUS P5E3 2x 1024MB ddr3 1800mhz XFX 8800GTS 512MB 4x 250GB SATA II intel core 2 Q6700 Corsair TX650w The first forum i asked if the TX650w power supply is enough for this pc said that even a HX520w would be enough, so i bought my new pc and when it was built I started it up and it kept restarting after 6 seconds. So I thought it was something wrong with the motherboard and sent it back and now im starting to get a little worried if I didn't have enough power to start up the PC :[pouts:. Does anyone with 100% certainty know how much power this PC needs? :o: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 16, 2008 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 16, 2008 650w is plenty of power for this system. Our HX520 would not have any trouble powering this system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeBob Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Roughly estimated, your rig can probably draw near or about 300W, but that's a worst case scenario figure, typical power draw will be somewhat less. The PSU is thus as mentioned sufficient, the rebooting issues -could- be because of many other causes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliteKiller Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 RAM GUY and JoeBob are spot on. In fact a Corsair VX450 would power your system without breaking a sweat. If you're rebooting it could be incorrect memory timings or other assorted issues. I'd recommend pulling the mobo out of the case and bench build the system with only the psu, cpu, one stick of ram, and the video card. Verify that you have hooked everything up properly. The wires for your case pwr switch will be short, so you can use a metal object to short the 2 pins on the mobo pwr switch header to fire things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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