Will my power supply work with my set-up
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With a 3850 you could probably pull it off with your Antec.
To much. Either put a rice grain size in the middle and let the heatsink spread it out. Or spread it thin and even with a Credit card or DL.
bomberboysk
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Spreading does not allow even distribution, increases chances of foreign particlulate contaminating the thermal interface medium, air bubbles form, and generally hurt the thermal performance. Recommending a credit card is a pretty bad idea, especially if you keep it in a wallet like probably 99% of guys do. The main heat source is the center of the processing unit, which is why you should put the thermal interface material in the center(or in the case of a thermal pad, it goes across the entire surface but that is a different type of medium).
You just need a molex to 6 pin adapter. Looks like this-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...1&cm_re=molex_to_6_pin-_-12-887-001-_-Product
Any computer store local to you should have it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...1&cm_re=molex_to_6_pin-_-12-887-001-_-Product
Any computer store local to you should have it.
JcPcCustoms
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i would get a atleast a 600 watt power supply if i was you
LOL, for a 65w cpu and 75w video card? ....and you build custom computers?
Do you use $20 power supplies in your builds or something? If so I can see why you would recommend 600w, because sure a $20 400w power supply may blow up, but not an Antec.With the 430w that still leaves 290w for powering the mobo, hard drives, and dvd burners...hmmmm Even if you take 50w for powering the mobo, and 10w for each component (each ram stick and each HD and each DVD rom) which is way plenty of coverage for those components that STILL leaves 180w excess.
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Okedokey
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LOL, for a 65w cpu and 75w video card? ....and you build custom computers?
With the 430w that still leaves 290w for powering the mobo, hard drives, and dvd burners...hmmmm Even if you take 50w for powering the mobo, and 10w for each component (each ram stick and each HD and each DVD rom) which is way plenty of coverage for those components that STILL leaves 180w excess.
This guy knows little about power supplies if he thinks this PSU can provide the wattage he claims. Its about amps. Without EPS2.91 cert, that PSU relies on 32A for the 12V system minus the CPU dedicated rail (12V+1 IAW ATX design standards). That is 384W. Its a good PSU don't get me wrong, but the wattage calc made by 87dtna is simply wrong.
I think you will also find that at load the 3850 will consume closer to 8A (100W) leaving 24A for the rest of the system. That is 288W, which should be oodles.
The thing is though, add capacitor ageing, heat related inefficienies, voltage related inefficiencies in USA etc and then add a new CPU next year and other gear, you may be wishing you got a more powerful PSU.
It will work fine for now, however any upgrades I would suggest you get a new quality and more powerful psu.
You could use a calculator like:
http://www.silentmods.com/modding/PSU_Watts_Calculator.html
to give you an estimate of the amount of power usage your system will have.
I haven't checked that one specifically but you get the idea I hope, that just came up top on google.
As for paste on your CPU pertty much what everybody else has said, just put a blob in the middle and put the heat sink on, you may notice your CPU temps dropping slightly over time as the CPU/heat sink heat and cool spreading the paste but it's likely to be a negligible change. The point being; it spreads itself.
http://www.silentmods.com/modding/PSU_Watts_Calculator.html
to give you an estimate of the amount of power usage your system will have.
I haven't checked that one specifically but you get the idea I hope, that just came up top on google.
As for paste on your CPU pertty much what everybody else has said, just put a blob in the middle and put the heat sink on, you may notice your CPU temps dropping slightly over time as the CPU/heat sink heat and cool spreading the paste but it's likely to be a negligible change. The point being; it spreads itself.