I plan on upgrading... When i upgrade, i am going to get a few more SATA drives, and two more DVD drives. I did not mention all of the fans that i have cooling the system (currently four plus a cpu fan, but there will be a few more added soon).
The next video card i buy requires a 500watt psu at least, and with the additional HDs and the DVD drives, i am sure it will be sucking quite a bit.
guys..atlast i seem to have solved it... it was just one of the wires ( from my dvd drive) which was kinda lying over the fan, and vibrating like hell... so i reassembled it and now it (seems) fine..
Some rubish might have just go caught in the fan on either the PSU or the CPU. Take it to bits, vacuum up all the dust and check that the fans can spin freely and nothing is jamming them.
NJ: Maybe a trailor and a small petro generator on the back of the car?
Or were to talking computer and video card, and still 1kW is a lot of power.. Either way I got a laugh.
Is it special RAM on video the board, lots of dead shorted RAM chips and a system that picks out the working ones. Just kidding, but 1kW is a LOT of power.
The main plateing rectifier at my work is a 3,000 amp 0-25 volt supply. That's 75kw's max. We only run it at 9-12 volts though but it's still in the 20-40kw range. It's not regulated but it's run off three phase power so the ripple is almost smooth as glass. The windings of the primary and secondary transformers are ribbons and aranged to provide for at least some capacitance to help smooth things out. It's about 30 years old and the size of a compact car. I think that might be a bit overkill for a PC =)
The main plateing rectifier at my work is a 3,000 amp 0-25 volt supply. That's 75kw's max. We only run it at 9-12 volts though but it's still in the 20-40kw range. It's not regulated but it's run off three phase power so the ripple is almost smooth as glass. The windings of the primary and secondary transformers are ribbons and aranged to provide for at least some capacitance to help smooth things out. It's about 30 years old and the size of a compact car. I think that might be a bit overkill for a PC =)