X-Power Supplies

[DJ2liveUK]

Are the X-Power supplies any good in a gaming rig?

[teknokid]

looking at your sig, you already have one, so why ask?

[Taxation]

asking if they were good for his machine basically, read between the lines tekno

[teknokid]

well ive never heard of them :s

[Ben]

Looks like a Maplin (http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=47952&doy=2m5#overview) jobbie. :o

[DJ2liveUK]

Tis a maplin jobbie. So I take it that they are a bit poor for running a gaming rig on then? Bloomin Maplin, sold me a lemon there then.

[Ben]

Is it causing you problems?

[DJ2liveUK]

I think it might be, as the newly installed 7600GT that I have appears not to be able to handle fear online. I get some serious graphic artifacts and then my system reboots. It also doesn't like ATI Tools which causes all kinds of grief when running the Find Artifacts process.

I think it might be the PSU and that's one reason why I was asking whether the PSU I have is a known good brand or not.

[Ben]

Does your card need power from the PSU?

If it does, I assume it is a 6 pin plug with a Y connector with a 4 pin molex plug on each of the other 2 ends.
Make sure each of these 4 pin connectors is on a different "strand" or cable coming off the PSU (Hope that makes sense :roll:).

This will help make sure they're on different power rails, so your not pulling too much power from one circuit.

[teknokid]

yep, a lot of people seem to be having these probs. when wiring my case i thought carefully about each power rail, keep them even and not overloaded.