everything I'm seeing on Google so far only talks about BSODs and lockups/crashes. No one really says anything about compromised performance so I was j/w.

6/9/2010 9:50:26 AM

wut

6/9/2010 9:51:59 AM

if you're talking about a power supply that cant handle the demand from your gpu, then yes it will be unstable and could potentially create other problems resulting in anything from slower performance to bsod

6/9/2010 9:52:39 AM

tl;dr: never cheap out on your powersupply

6/9/2010 9:54:54 AM

The game will perform slower, have less frames per second, and overall be unplayable.

Just get a console so you don't have to update your computer every 3 months to play the latest and greatest

6/9/2010 10:06:18 AM

thermaltake butterfly 480w (bought many years ago)

17amps on 12v single rail

but I just saw some benchmarks with HD5770's using up all of 5A on load, and GTX260s ~9A so uuh,
what is this 40A requirement BS?

I was able to run an XFX HD5770 OC'ed to 930/1400 (from 850/1200) on stock cooler on an Athlon64 3500+ system on this PSU No problems but my bottlenecked PC made the $200 vid card not worthwhile, so I returned it.

FWIW:
3500+@2.5ghz and HD5770@930/1400 3Dmark05 = 11325 (CPU marks=5035)
phenomII x4 965@3.4ghz(stock) and 7900GT OC'ed about 50mhz 3Dmark05 = 9172 (CPU marks=16200 )

[Edited on June 9, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : maybe I should go back for the card ]

6/9/2010 10:22:34 AM