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Author: Stephen Partington
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Subject: Re: System building trouble
This is only relevant based on the amount of power drawn by the CPU socket
really.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 8:11 AM Harold Hartley <>
wrote:

> Has anyone check out what the maximum watts of power that the motherboard
> can actually handle.
> Some time ago I had a motherboard and got a nice high wattage power supply
> only to find out it would not run. The psu was to much for the board. I
> then learned that it was rated at a max watt that was less than the psu.
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, at 08:03, Bob Elzer wrote:
>
> That seems to be enough, I wish you had access to an 850w to try it.
>
> My only other thought would be to check to make sure the cooler fan is
> plugged in correctly and that it is plugged into the correct fan header. I
> think some motherboards won't boot if a fan isn't detected.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 1:29 AM Eric Oyen <> wrote:
> > It could be infancy failure of the board, or GPU or CPU. The board is
> most likely suspect if the supply works otherwise.
> >
> > -Eric
> > From the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Parts is parts Dept.
> >
> > > On Jul 29, 2019, at 11:09 PM, Adam Mercer <> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:24 PM Bob Elzer <>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> You could go to PCPartPicker and build a system with all your exact
> parts and see if it gives you a warning about the wattage
> > >
> > > I used PCPartPicker to assemble the list and check compatibility. That
> > > gave me a power usage of just shy of about 370W so I doubled that and
> > > selected a 750W to be on the safe side.
> > >
> > >> You could also list your parts here too. Did you get a x570 Mb? I
> hear those draw more power too.
> > >
> > > It is a x570 board. It's a beast with a lot of upgrade potential.
> > >
> > > The parts list is here:
> > >
> > > https://pcpartpicker.com/user/skymoo/saved/gtVdXL
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Adam
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