Will I bottleneck?

[MakeItRAIN]

Hey everyone!

I'm looking at a new graphics card and want to know if it would bottleneck my current system?

My specs are:

Intel i5 2500K @ 3.3 + 3.6GHz

8GB Kingston HyperX memory

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P

128GB OCZ Agility SSD

Seagate 2TB x2

Random optical drive

OCZ 650w PSU

EVGA GTX 460 SC

Anyway, I want to replace my 460 with a 670. Would this bottleneck my system?

Thanks!

 

[Alexander Lee]

no.

Welcome to the forums btw, make sure you post pictures of your PC in the rig gallery

 

[jamesriley94]

LOL. You arent gunna bottleneck an i5, or 8gb ram with any single graphics card.

You could get away with 3, GTX 670s in SLI even without bottlenecking it.

And I'm sure I wont be the first to say, especially on these forums - forget bottlenecking get rid of the OCZ psu as fast as you can before it does some damage!!

Yours faithfully,

a proud OCZ psu owner....

 

[MakeItRAIN]

LOL. You arent gunna bottleneck an i5, or 8gb ram with any single graphics card.

You could get away with 3, GTX 670s in SLI even without bottlenecking it.

And I'm sure I wont be the first to say, especially on these forums - forget bottlenecking get rid of the OCZ psu as fast as you can before it does some damage!!

Yours faithfully,

a proud OCZ psu owner....

What do you mean the PSU will damage my parts? D:

Thats the first bad review of the OCZ PSU's I've ever seen.

 

[airdeano]

welcome to the forum,

intel pretty much moved the bottleneck issue for a long time since the release of i3/i5/i7 on stock

clocks game makers are up to challenge of maxing the GPU cards and making the GPU sweat

a little bit.

mmmm, i believe hes aluding to an experience to a PSU wiping some equipment out due to the

failure of the PSU. and kinda specifically that brand.

airdeano

 

[MakeItRAIN]

Thanks, it specifically OCZ PSU's or is it others too? That got me a little worried D:

 

[airdeano]

mm that brand.. a lotta members here prefer the corsair PSU. clean power, can be had

for low monies at times, can be sold for for good money to move to a bigger unit..

but there is enermax, pc and power cooling, silverstone...

airdeano

 

[Master&Puppet]

i5 is more than fine for this build. You only need to get an i7 if you have 3 or 4 gpus on a 2011 socket (and even then it's because 1155 doesn't have enough pcie lanes and you don't want to be running gpus on x8 x4 x4).

OCZ isn't the most respected brand on these forums but any psu is fine as long as you don't push it.

 

[jamesriley94]

Yeh. Tbh though, I've had an OCZ psu for the last 3 years and never had any problems whatsoever with it.

Just whenever I've posted in a forum about it, people seem to jump on the band wagon and say it's gunna break and take every other component down with it, I dont know how reliably that information is though...obviously not very reliable from where im standing

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yeh. Tbh though, I've had an OCZ psu for the last 3 years and never had any problems whatsoever with it.

Just whenever I've posted in a forum about it, people seem to jump on the band wagon and say it's gunna break and take every other component down with it, I dont know how reliably that information is though...obviously not very reliable from where im standing

Contradicting much? First you say to get rid of the PSU and then you say you've had no issues with it. So would you recommend one or not?

 

[jamesriley94]

Contradicting much? First you say to get rid of the PSU and then you say you've had no issues with it. So would you recommend one or not?

I'm not really being contradictve. Did in he first bost but that was obviously intended with sarcasm by ending it 'Yours faithfully...'

I'm saying I've personally never had a problem with them, but everyone else here seems to think they're the antichrist. And despite my own experiences with them, if I were to buy a new one today, under the general consensus of these forums, I wouldnt be buying an OCZ.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I'm not really being contradictve. Did in he first bost but that was obviously intended with sarcasm by ending it 'Yours faithfully...'

I'm saying I've personally never had a problem with them, but everyone else here seems to think they're the antichrist. And despite my own experiences with them, if I were to buy a new one today, under the general consensus of these forums, I wouldnt be buying an OCZ.

Oh right, it was a misunderstanding on my part, my apologies

 

[Master&Puppet]

Yeh. Tbh though, I've had an OCZ psu for the last 3 years and never had any problems whatsoever with it.

Just whenever I've posted in a forum about it, people seem to jump on the band wagon and say it's gunna break and take every other component down with it, I dont know how reliably that information is though...obviously not very reliable from where im standing

http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx

Well they are certified for use on the AMD 79x0 so I don't think they can be that bad tbh.

 

[jamesriley94]

I have no idea really

People just seem to say that they're unreliable. People probably hear one person say that then it just gets spread around, even if it's only one person whos had a bad experience with them, but I have no idea. Plenty of people have had issues with Corsair AX850s too but no one seems to complain about them.

I have had issues with my old OCZ Agility 3 which I think was poorly made, with heavy marketing in an attempt to compensate that. Thats why I'll be avoiding the company in the future, not based on my psu experience

 

[yassarikhan786]

I have no idea really

People just seem to say that they're unreliable. People probably hear one person say that then it just gets spread around, even if it's only one person whos had a bad experience with them, but I have no idea. Plenty of people have had issues with Corsair AX850s too but no one seems to complain about them.

I have had issues with my old OCZ Agility 3 which I think was poorly made, with heavy marketing in an attempt to compensate that. Thats why I'll be avoiding the company in the future, not based on my psu experience

As you pointed out in your earlier post, I think it's just a case of people jumping on the "OCZ PSU's are bad, avoid at all costs" bandwagon.

 

[jamesriley94]

Yeh I kind of agree, but even if that is the case, I'd probably rather be safe and get a Corsair in the future

 

[Master&Puppet]

Whilst we are on this topic - has anyone found out a way of finding out what amps/volt (and therefore watts) components need? I've just tried looking at my 7950 boxes and no stats...because that is what we are talking about here - the equation afterall is:

Watts = Volts * Amps

You may have a 500W PSU but it all depends on how the power is delivered.

Say your GPU needs 240W from a 12V rail...that means the PSU needs to have 20Amps spare just for the GPU.

 

[jamesriley94]

I dont worry about that much myself really.

Considering I never buy a cheapo power supply, I'm confident that any PSU I buy will have sufficient amps. I believe if it was important enough, psus and manufacturers would clearly state everything like that anyway, so I just ignore it.

If it was really an issue, many people would be posting about it

 

[Master&Puppet]

True, I just like knowing these things!

It annoys me knowing that my PSU has 4* 12v rails but I don't know how many amps it supplies through each!

 

[yassarikhan786]

It annoys me knowing that my PSU has 4* 12v rails but I don't know how many amps it supplies through each!

I thought this was standard on all PSU's? Isn't there a sticker on the PSU itself showing that information?