Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:53 pm by country_boy454
500w PSU is rather small depending on what you have. If you could tell us the specs of your PC that could help us.
Ok got your specs from another thread:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
4GB DDR3
500GB HD
AMD Radeon HD 6850
Win7 Home Premium 64-bit
Ok the 6850 at full usage eats up 278 watts of power. The 955 uses 236 Watts at full usage. That alone is taxing your 500w PSU. I dont know if you overclock at all but if you do then you are using more watts yet. Id say upgrade to something around 750-850w depending on if you know you will be upgrading later on.
CPU: i7 5930k 4.7GHz MOBO:Asus X99-E WSRam:G.Skill DDR4 2666 32gbGPU:SLI'd EVGA GTX 980tiPSU:EVGA 220-T2-1600-X1HDD:500gb Raid 0 850 EVO SSDs, 5tb Toshiba 128mb cacheCase:Lian Li PC-D666WRXDisplay:32" Samsung, (2) Acer S231HL Cooling:Corsair H100i GTX, 12 BGears 120mm PWM fans