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Question Will my 2012 Corsair AX850w PSU power the evga FTW3 RTX 3080 w/3 8-pin connectors?

EDIT - A month after this post the PS started making a strange noise. Still, 7 years seems like a fair run for a power supply. No great, but fair.
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #16
- Dec 4, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Question Electric buzzing noise from PSU under load

Thank you all for your responses. It is most definitely not the fan or GPU. I have the PS out of the case right now and you can see that the fan goes on and off as it needs to. The fan is silent and the sound is localized , I think, to a big yellow wrapped coil in the PS. It is not a high...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #5
- Dec 4, 2020
- Forum: Power Supplies
Question Electric buzzing noise from PSU under load

I have never heard a coil whine before, so I don't know what it sounds like. My power supply is making a noise like electricity making an arc whenever my GPU kicks in. It seems to run fine. Everything looks fine, I can't see anything abnormal under operation. The fan goes on and off...
- AMD Die Hard
- Thread
- Dec 3, 2020
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Power Supplies
Question Will my 2012 Corsair AX850w PSU power the evga FTW3 RTX 3080 w/3 8-pin connectors?

I have a corsair HX1050 powering a i7 4770k and a 1070ti that has been going for 7 years now. They do make a decent power supply.
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #10
- Oct 21, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Discussion Use of an 8 pin to 2 X 8 pin adapter with an older PS and newer GPU - Help!

I would point out that history is repeating itself and the exact same thing is going on again right now with the new 12-pin power connector on high end Nvidia video cards. The new cards come with an adapter for older power supplies to connect the 2 x 6+2 to a single 12 pin output. Is that not...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #5
- Oct 21, 2020
- Forum: Power Supplies
Discussion Use of an 8 pin to 2 X 8 pin adapter with an older PS and newer GPU - Help!

So, on another site's forums, someone came in asking "what could go wrong" if he used an 8 pin to 2 X 8 pin adapter with an older PS. His GPU needed 2 x 8 pin and his power supply has one 6+2 pin available. The moderator said that because his PS didn't have the native 2 x 8 pin, he should buy...
- AMD Die Hard
- Thread
- Oct 19, 2020
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Power Supplies
SantaTech Giveaway Contest! *Updated*

I would love to have the M.2. SSD. It is super sexy and I have a laptop with an M.2. port that currently has a conventional rotating hard drive. What an upgrade! I would also love to have the 6TB drive as a storage drive for my main desktop. I have backups scattered across a couple of...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #64
- Dec 9, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
GTX 980 ti vs GTX 970 + 144hz Monitor vs GTX 970x2 SLI

I have two computers running side by side that my buddy and I play BF4 on. Mine is a i7 4770K with a GTX980 and 24" 144 Hz g-sync enabled monitor. The other is a i7 970 with a GTX 780 on a 28" 144 hz monitor. The effect of g-sync is so striking, that when I switch computers the difference in...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #12
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: Displays
Making a new computer [Hardware choice&Compability help?]

Seriously, with your budget, why not go for 2 X GTX 980 and be able to support multi monitor 4K at your leisure.
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #6
- Oct 15, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
My Haswell (4) v. Gulftown (6) Gaming Rigs on BF3

I have the following two gaming systems side by side in my basement: Proc: i7 970 Gulftown hexacore Mobo: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Mem: 24GB DDR3 1333 HD: OCZ Vertex 4 256GB Vid: EVGA 680GTX Monitor: Asus VG248 24" 144Hz OS: Win7 64 Pro and Proc: i7 4770K...
- AMD Die Hard
- Thread
- Jun 13, 2013
- Replies: 29
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Destroy my build - $3,000 gaming setup

Also, I love the Samsung 840 pro, I have one. However, with modern games getting bigger and bigger, 256GB isn't that much space. You do not want to keep your games on a seperate data drive (especially a mechanical drive even the raptor), they will load slower. The best performance comes from...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #93
- May 14, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
Destroy my build - $3,000 gaming setup

If the focus of your machine is gaming first and foremost, then you should get a monitor with 120hz or 144hz refresh rate. The monitors you are looking at have a 60hz refresh rate. You essentially need a 3D monitor, although true gamers don't play in 3D, they use those monitor because of the...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #92
- May 14, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
Are kids moving away from PCs?

I got my kids the acer and samsung chromebooks. I wanted them to have a keyboard so they could create content and not just consume it. They were cheap, $199 and $249 respectively. So far so good. They have been using them to learn how to use a computer. The android operating sdytem is easy...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #10
- Feb 6, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
where to find ducky keyboards

I bought the Ducky 9008G2 at Microcenter. I must say, after owning the Corsair G90 with cherry red and a Rosewill with cherry brown, the Ducky with the cherry blacks are my favorite so far. FYI a beer dump in teh keyboard killed the corsair and Rosewill just died by itself after two weeks.
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #5
- Feb 6, 2013
- Forum: Keyboards
Why not desktop system for enterprise applications?

These users are creating and saving Microfost word documents and excel docuemnts. Thats pretty much it. We may have one machine begin scanning files to save them digitally - not sure of what format yet. As far as I can figure, this machine should be more than enough. As far as reliability...
- AMD Die Hard
- Post #4
- May 12, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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