Is my PSU enough?

Turgler · March 4, 2021

Hello I have a ryzen 3600 non X and a MSI gaming x trio 3070 running on an asus rog strix b550-f gaming mobo that I am overclocking, and I have never overclocked before so I don’t really know what I’m doing. But I have what I think is a stable gpu OC and a stable cpu OC. But when I run them together in firestrike it crashes. My cpu at 4.6ghz will run aida64 at stock voltage and has no issue with cinabench r23. And my gpu is 140mhz over stock and my gpus memory is 1599mhz over and passes the fire strike stress test fine. Is my 6 year old power supply not enough? I have a Corsair rm750. And I just remembered that this power supply doesn’t have another 4 pin cpu connector so I’m only using an 8 pin. But the cpu seems stable by itself, could that also be my issue

Turgler · March 4, 2021

Sorry I have a Corsair rm750

LIGISTX · March 4, 2021

4 minutes ago, 8xKiritox8 said:

Sorry I have a Corsair rm750

Theoretically, thats plenty. 1599MHz over...? As in you totally maxed out the RAM slider? I doubt its stable with +1599 on the slider. I would 1) make sure its actually getting better performance with this GPU RAM OC. If you push the RAM to the point where its introducing a lot of error correcting or dropping latency to compensate, it won't even help anything just make things worse.

Also.... what resolution are you running? I wouldn't worry too much about pushing your 3070 all that far with a 3600 CPU, your definitely not GPU bound here unless your running 4k. That said, yes, every bit of more speed is good, don't worry I fully get that and do that myself. But, I wouldn't just max out slides and hope it works either.

To really test the CPU, run asus real bench for 8 hours.... if it passes that I would agree your stable. https://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/realbench-v2-leaderboard/https://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/realbench-v2-leaderboard/ I also run aida64 in both the default test it does for ~4+ hours and uncheck all but FPU for 4+ hours as well. If it passes all of those things, probs fine. To be extra sure, https://www.ocbase.com/ is a very serious test. If it passes 1+ hours of that, your really CPU stable.

For GPU, really best you can do is test with many things. A single "benchmark" type test just isn't enough. Try heaven, try valley, try games. And actually monitor the performance. If you don't see FPS gains or benchmark score increases, you pushed the RAM too far and now its just hurting you.

Turgler · March 4, 2021

Thanks for the info, and I’m on MSI after burner so the max the slider goes to is 1500, and I’m currently on 1080p but have a 4k panel that I’m going to borrow and see how my system runs it. So I was hoping to see my best performance possible before hand. Because if I got tolerable frame rates I would love to have 4K. I did not see an noticeable gains with the increased ram speed, however I thought more couldn’t hurt and as I was testing one thing at a time and it never crashed on that. I assumed it would be stable. Thank you for your input I will try some more things tomorrow. And see how stable my OC’s really are (probably not very I would wager)