Hey guys,
So I got my Dell 330W the other day, didnt have much time to game so last night after quite some time I fired up the rig. Said to myself "hey lets Firestrike it for a bit :)" I did that and just 10 secs after the test started, GTX980Ti went offline !! so weird. I though maybe it was a sudden power outage or something so I started it again, same thing happened and GPU started counting starts lol. Something caught my eye, it was actually the Dell 330W PSU which was going down and powering off each time, in fact it was going to safe mode.
So it got me thinking: It was virtually impossible that PSU was defective,I was sure of that. GTX also was healthy and fine. So only one other possible scenario: PSU is not getting enough juice.
Look at the Power socket Terminal I was using:
This is a 3 socket power terminal Into which I plug my 23" BenQ Monitor, 180W G20 PSU and 330W GPU PSU. so basically I`m asking about 600W max from that Power terminal given that the parts are overclocked and stuff.
On the other hand, the Dell 330w psu had a weird 3 dent male sockets for which I had no proper female sockets to match.
So I went to a store and bought that conversion for it. didnt like it from the start, cheap stuff.
So all above said, I though maybe I should give this 330W PSU a better power flow. So I used the Power socket Terminal which I use for my Samsung Home Theater system which includes a 4k 78" TV, Samsung Seramic sorround system and a big Subwoofer. I though this is what I want to be sure.
With this, system booted issue free and I ran 3 firestrike tests back to back .Each time I got my usual score of 15090. Conclusion: it was a weak power socket terminal not being able to feed the 330W PSU the power it needed.
Take a look at the wire comparison between the former and latter power sockets terminals:
All tested and verified by me and I though maybe you should know this too.
Happy ROG`ing
🙂