New Build Issues

well those 8 cores even if they aren't as fast as sandy clock to clock will kill it in this stuff, encoding doesn't take too much but when doing it x6 then it is killing your resources.
 
Thanks for the comments guys. To be honest, one of the reasons why I went for a 6-core is because I do plan to run a few VMs here and there and my understanding is that the system will overall be a bit more stable on a higher core processor... I may be wrong on that, but that's my understanding.

Anyway, I went into town and went to a few PC and electrical places looking for a power supply, as I didn't ideally want to wait for delivery on an online purchase. I'm glad peoples comments so far have been Corsair over OCZ, as I found a Corsair and an OCZ PSU, pretty much the same spec... The OCZ was £5 cheaper than the Corsair, but I bought the Corsair as it looked much better quality, and I can't remember if the OCZ did or not, but the Corsair one came with a 3 year warranty, which is nice.

So I got a Corsair GS600 in the end, and I've got to say the machine has been massively more stable since installing the new PSU. Touch wood and all that superstition, I haven't had a single crash since replacing it, and I've given it a fair bit of work to do :)

Thanks again :)
 
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