Am I in danger?

hunkeelin

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My rig is show below.
rehab
cpu:5960x
gpu: 2x 980 in sli
Storage: I have 3 seagate hdd, 1tb + 2tb + 4tb
cooling: swiftech 240x
Fans: I have 3 fans
usb: mic, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc....
Psu:1000w 80 gold plus cooler master silent pro.

I constatnly do massive oc like geting my 5960x to 4.4, and oc both of my gpu to 1500mhz+.

From what I know or heard each oced 980 consumes 300w and the oced cpu consume 300w. that's already 900w. Am I walking on thin ice?

Anything would help thanks.
 

Flapdrol1337

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Maxwell gpu's clock back if they go over their power target. There's no way they'll use 300W unless you do a bios mod.

The cpu can use a lot overclocked, but if you add all the components up you're still under the 1000W, and 80+ gold psu's can deliver all the power on 12V.

If you play a game there's no way you'll stress every part of the pc fully for a sustained period of time, wouldn't worry about it. Just don't go running furmark+linx at the same time for hours and hours.
 

TemjinGold

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If you are worried, do this: Buy a quality UPS and plug the PC into it. The UPS, in addition to protecting your equipment, will also show you exactly how many watts are being pulled from the wall (you'll need to multiply this by the efficiency to get the actual power the PC is using).
 

lehtv

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The article didn't cover ocing. I ocasionally oc to 1530mhz for both of hte card and my cpu at 4.4

Quoted from the article:


GeForce GTX 980 in 2-way SLI - minimum 700~800 Watt
GeForce GTX 980 in 3-way SLI - minimum 900~1000 Watt

If you are going to overclock your GPU or processor, then we do recommend you purchase something with some more stamina.

980 SLI with OC is going to use less than 980 Tri-SLI without OC. Below you can see total system power consumption with one GTX 980 overclocked to 1500+ boost versus stock, measured from the wall.



That's only a ~60W increase per card, so your 980 SLI needs 120W more capacity which is not as much as you'd need to add a third 980.
 
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BonzaiDuck

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Get a Kill-a-Watt and measure the power usage...

He can do that, or use his UPS software after plugging in any peripherals to another source.

Howsoever that may be, you might apply a factor of 0.9 to the reported value, given PSU efficiency ratings for good units these days. CPU power consumption can be measured without any such estimation through something like HWMonitor.

We discussed this topic on some earlier threads -- some of my own initiation. I've got two GTX 970s in SLI, and it was a matter of concern to me: my processor is overclocked so that maximum load wattage is about 136W. The graphics cards have a stock specification for maximum power-consumption (without OC), but with these cards, figure you can extrapolate to the 110% power limit.

But here's the crucial point of it. There are good PSUs, "so-so" PSUs and s***ty PSUs. You get what you pay for. It is also possible to buy a 1000W PSU that falls into the second or third categories.

I'd uncovered a Hardware Secrets review of a 750W XFX model definitely confirmed in several ways (and by the reviewer) to be a rebadged Seasonic. The testers pushed the wattage draw on the unit to 900W, which it was able to sustain. At something between 900 and 930, the protection circuitry in the PSU kicked in and shut it down.

Not only is it very unlikely that any real-world computer usage will push both SLI'd gfx cards and CPU to their limit of power-consumption, but if the PSU is a good one and seems rated to just equal such a hypothetical maximum, you'll do fine. The maximum wattage ratings for good PSUs are determined as a mean or average power draw, so the spikes that occur for items like the Maxwell cards won't much matter.

The 5960X has a TDP of 140W -- at stock speeds equal to my OC'd SB-K processors. OC'd, it will be higher -- someone else would know -- but I"d guess 200W or more. So for comparison purposes, I'll say that this issue worried me initially with a 650W Seasonic PSU. Enough further investigation of the matter led me to conclude that it was plenty. Plenty, with the 970s clocked to ~1500Mhz and the sig-rig CPU OC. The most I was able to squeeze out in stress-tests on the graphics cards was about 580W x 0.9 or ~530W; the CPU was showing approximately 80W in HWMonitor. If I were to add the addition 60W for full load CPU power-consumption, I would still have room to spare for the Seasonic spec, and probably double that.
 
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