Hi guys, I'm trying my hardest to avoid spending the extra £80 on a new PSU. My PC, once built will be: MSI P67A-GD53 Intel i7 2600K - plan to OC to about 3.8Ghz 8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD 7200RPM Nvidia GTX 570 - looking to push it up to 800Mhz. I've got a good quality PSU in the Thermaltake Toughpower 600W, reckon it'll be enough? Cheers, James
Fine. You'll use ~300-400W for the total system when gaming, depending on how much OC. I have to ask though. Do you really need a 2600K? If it's just a gaming system, you're wasting serious cash there. Almost enough to afford a 64GB SSD. Also, a 3.8GHz OC on an 2600K is nothing. Turbo Boost is capable of that by default! If you're actually going to overclock it you'll want an aftermarket cooler and push it or 2500K to about 4.5Ghz. Not all chips make it that high though, in any case try not to exceed 1.35V on the Vcore.
as lehtv said.. gaming only 2500k, video editing, photoshop, etc.. 2600k. or, in case if you want really long lasting cpu, maybe 2600k would be better still, if no photoshop and stuff like that.. 2500k and good aftermarket cooler, then push it to 4.5ghz or whathever u can get with 1.35v or so (mine go up to 4.7ghz@1.35v) about psu, yes, you will have stronger card, but still, mine is 620w and on oc cpu 4.9@1.424v, and 560ti gpu on 1000mhz@1.05v (vrm at 2150mhz if i remember right) and it work just fine.. btw, on 2600k you might get a little lower OC with HT on.. if you disable HT.. well, then u have same cpu as if u get 2500k
Cheers guys, I said 3.8 as I was worried about how the PSU would take going higher. I've got an Artic Freezer 7, which isn't great by todays standards, but has worked for me so far, so I'll probably push the 2600K up to around 4.2/4.3ish area. I do use photoshop and video editing, plus I'll be wanting this system to have some good longevity, so dont worry it's not wasted Thanks again :cheers:
By the time 2500K starts to feel slow, 2600K will start to feel slow. They're not that far apart. You will undoubtedly upgrade in about the same time with either CPU. Photoshop doesn't benefit from hyperthreading immensely, and whether video encoding benefits from it depends on exactly what applications you use.
