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Friday, January 15, 2016 10:03 AM
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On Christmas day, my old CoolMax 700 watt power supply died a quick death. Luckily for me, nothing else joined in the fun, and I now have a Supernova 850 G2 powering my rig. It may be my imagination, but, everything seems more solid, and startups are most certainly much faster, so that isn't, and I'm quite pleased, at this point. May even try raising clock a bit more....Certainly now ready for an upgrade to intel's latest, Z170X/i5 6600K combo... That 850 G2 is so cool looking, I had to mount it fan up, to show off that Awesome Logo....
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Gigabyte Z590 Vision G Mobo, intel i3 10105 CPU, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR4 3200 RAM, EVGA GTX 750ti FTW Video Card, EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 power supply, Fractal Design Focus G (White) case, Cooler Master Hyper212 RGB Black CPU cooler. 2 Dell LED Monitors (20" & 24"), SK Hynix Gold 1TB SATA SSD (OS Drive), 6 WD HDDs 13TB total (Storage). Rig is a partial update on the old Gigabyte P43/Q6600 OC rig... The WD HDD's, (13TB, total), Blu-ray & DVD burners, GTX750ti FTW & Supernova 850 G2 psu, migrated from old setup... Will get an 11700K, and an RTX 3060 12GB Black card, when I'm ready to OC... Windows 11 Pro set for performance, and it runs at 4.2Ghz... Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience Wheel/Pedals, Built for Gaming, Video Production, and Cakewalk, Cubase DAWs...
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Re: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, great addition...
Friday, January 15, 2016 3:26 PM
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My 1300 G2 is working just great. Glad everything is fine with you now.
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Re: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, great addition...
Friday, January 15, 2016 3:53 PM
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Glad to hear the OLD PSU did not hose your rig.
Just curious, how old was the CoolMax 700?
Stable output is what matters on the PSU, GL on your pursuit of more speed.
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HotRodPolk
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Re: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, great addition...
Friday, March 25, 2016 3:23 AM
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Cool GTX
Glad to hear the OLD PSU did not hose your rig.
Just curious, how old was the CoolMax 700?
Stable output is what matters on the PSU, GL on your pursuit of more speed.
Was amazed myself that it didn't kill my mobo/cpu... The CoolMax CTI-700B 700 Watt PSU was 8 years old. Was told by many it would not last beyond it's one year warrantee. I should have long before replaced it, I know, but now with a couple months using the 850 G2, I can certainly tell a difference in performance. Also adding 2 new drives, a WD 500GB blue, and a 2 TB black, split 3 ways, made everything faster as well, if not for fresh clean OS's, then by virtue of dumping all the slower, old, and smaller drives I ran before. Now all my WD drives are less than 2 years old, which makes it better as well, by having the 6 GB/second spec...
Gigabyte Z590 Vision G Mobo, intel i3 10105 CPU, 32GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR4 3200 RAM, EVGA GTX 750ti FTW Video Card, EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 power supply, Fractal Design Focus G (White) case, Cooler Master Hyper212 RGB Black CPU cooler. 2 Dell LED Monitors (20" & 24"), SK Hynix Gold 1TB SATA SSD (OS Drive), 6 WD HDDs 13TB total (Storage). Rig is a partial update on the old Gigabyte P43/Q6600 OC rig... The WD HDD's, (13TB, total), Blu-ray & DVD burners, GTX750ti FTW & Supernova 850 G2 psu, migrated from old setup... Will get an 11700K, and an RTX 3060 12GB Black card, when I'm ready to OC... Windows 11 Pro set for performance, and it runs at 4.2Ghz... Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience Wheel/Pedals, Built for Gaming, Video Production, and Cakewalk, Cubase DAWs...
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Re: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, great addition...
Friday, March 25, 2016 7:48 AM
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HotRodPolk
Cool GTX
Glad to hear the OLD PSU did not hose your rig.
Just curious, how old was the CoolMax 700?
Stable output is what matters on the PSU, GL on your pursuit of more speed.
Was amazed myself that it didn't kill my mobo/cpu...
The CoolMax CTI-700B 700 Watt PSU was 8 years old.
Was told by many it would not last beyond it's one year warrantee. I should have long before replaced it, I know, but now with a couple months using the 850 G2, I can certainly tell a difference in performance. Also adding 2 new drives, a WD 500GB blue, and a 2 TB black, split 3 ways, made everything faster as well, if not for fresh clean OS's, then by virtue of dumping all the slower, old, and smaller drives I ran before. Now all my WD drives are less than 2 years old, which makes it better as well, by having the 6 GB/second spec...
I can say same for my ex NEX1500 Classified. Thanks god everything continue to work. Because PC worked when I go to sleep and I saw complete power off when I woke up I was sure that some hardware problem is present. After few try to enable PC connect and disconnect cables I decide to try my old X-750. When I saw normal boot and after I finished CPU stress test and 3DMark test In first moment I was not sad because my PSU die, I was happy because everything work. He could burn on very nice i7-3770K very hard to find such sample capable to run LinX AVX on 1.165V on 4.5GHz and 1.300V on 4.8GHz, He could burn my dear EVGA Z77 FTW, one nice EVGA GTX580 reference almost new and Dominator Platinum DDR3. But protection on PSU worked. That was probably silent dead... I didn't felt burn smell, smoke,... But after few hours fact that so nice main PSU is dead and look on X-750 in case crashed me.
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