Is My Power Supply Bottlenecking My Overclock Potential?

[Marc W1771ams]

Hi guys new to the forum but a pretty long term gamer and reasonably long term overclocker. Up until recently I have always kept my overclocks fairly tame and not really pushed kit past what it can handle on stock cooling. However my new rig is capable of a fair bit more;

i5-2500k @ 4.6 GHz - Cooled by a Corsair H100

Asus Sabertooth P67

16gb Gskills Ripjaw Z 2133 MHz (X79 Kit but runs like a charm on P67)

GTx 480 @ 895 MHz - Cooled by a Artic Cooling Acellero Extreme Plus II

120 GB Ocz Agility 3 SSD

2 x 1tb WD Green HDD

All Bundled into a NZXT Tempest Elite 410 case. With a total of 6 120mm Xilence Red Wing fans (For a budget fan these things are great)

Now I have started to hit the wall as it were with my overclocks is my measly Corsair CX600 limiting my overclock potential?

I cant seem to take the graphics card past 895 without my whole PC freezing up. Now usually when my card cant handle an overclock the display dirver just crashes and the PC crashes to desktop.

So guys any thoughts? I know the CX600 isnt the best power supply in the world and is dangerously close to nvidia's recommended minimum. But it is Corsair and is a pretty solid power supply.

 

[Master&Puppet]

Hmm i doubt it to be honest. Everything included I wouldn't expect your system to draw more than 500w overclocked at max load.

 

[Marc W1771ams]

Thanks for the reply,

Is there an easy way to measure the total power draw?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Most people use something like the following: Plug-In Mains Power and Energy Monitor

I am assuming you're based in the U.K so I have linked you to a U.K e-tailer. If you're not from the U.K you should be able to find something similar (in your region).

 

[killablade]

That link don't work matey ^^

 

[Master&Puppet]

Yass is right.

I think he was trying to link to something like this

http://www.amazon.co...r/dp/B000Q7PJGW

 

[yassarikhan786]

That link don't work matey ^^

Thanks for the heads up. I've fixed the link now

 

[mihapiha]

With this hardware you have, I'd be shocked if the Corsair PowerSupply could not handle it. Even with an overclock it would be hard for you to see 500W power usage.

 

[Marc W1771ams]

Cheers for the response guys, I think i actually have one of those knocking around in the attic somewhere.