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in this month's a used PC part-time we picked up an i3 system for a hundred Australian dollars which is about 77 US dollars however inside it had a p55 UD 3r motherboard from gigabyte and since his motherboard was literally like the best P 55 motherboard I've seen in 2017 I decided to pull it out and use it for a later comparison we're gonna be comparing four cores from different time spans though now this PC was missing a motherboard I decided I would do something crazy since the only part that I didn't like in this build was the power supply which is the next gen 600 watt power supply with only 25 amps and now when you see a power supply like this seriously do yourself a favor and do not use it it's actually dangerous to use something like this it's a really crappy power supply they over advertised the Watts when really what you're looking for is a strong amp egde on the 12 volt line if you have this from a decent manufacturer you should be good to go but if you don't use a power play like this one which is called a next gen you not only run the risk of giving your PC parts bad voltage but also run the risk of blowing up the power supply if there's too much power being requested from it and in that case when that blows out you can also risk blowing out your PC parts too so a little pretty disclaimer before we get on into this video don't use no name power supplies please though with all that aside since I had a budget motherboard I finally express a terrible power supply a cooler with no mounting system I thought I'd do a little experiment why not zip tie a cooler on to this motherboard with the 2500 K and see how high this power supply and all these components could overclock this system and so we began overclocking and we started off with a healthy overclock of 4.3 gigahertz at 1.3 volt and what I found surprisingly was that it did work this was in a 25-degree and be an environment and it was actually doing pretty well I think we got into around 70 degrees max temperatures after a 10-minute stress test so this thing was ready to game at four point three gigahertz however we were going to take it higher than this so it was then we've rebooted the system upped it to 4.5 gigahertz and then surprisingly it passed at 4.5 gigahertz as well this was at around 1.3 4 volt keep in mind this power supply is supplying terrible voltage and the MOSFETs on this motherboard aren't the best so I was actually surprised that this thing was kicking it at 4.5 gigahertz and it did so with reaching a maximum temperature of 90 degrees so we were pretty much reaching our maximum threshold at these voltages and at these overclocks however we decided just to try 4.7 gigahertz see if it would even boot and it was at this stage I realized I had hit a brick wall it would fail to boot it just gave me error messages I did get to a blue screen however with about 1.3 9 voltage I didn't want to take it any higher as this power supply would probably blow up at this stage I did actually smell some smoke a bad smell now if you guys are using a cheap power supply and if you're in a pinch for instance if your main components in your rig for whatever reason have broken down you've sent them off for RMA and you need something to get you out of a pinch and you have a bad power supply lying around you have an old motherboard a CPU cooler that doesn't fit then this may get you out of danger just keep in mind if you decide to do that seriously don't overclock your system and also while we're at it if you smell something bad coming out of your system even if it's a decent power supply you have the best of the best seriously turn your system off straight away find out where the smell is coming from and stop using that part or you may have to fix something something may be shorting out in the past I've had one of these cheap power supplies completely fry on me and while it's actually in this room smelling these bad fumes for about half an hour I then proceeded to vomit so it's actually a really bad experience one that I've been through firsthand so anyway guys I was actually surprised that we could hit four point five gigahertz on a terrible power supply budget cool with no mounting system zip tied onto a budget motherboard however I didn't stop there I wanted to start gaming on this machine especially with the 4.5 gigahertz overclock so I decided to add in the 650 Ti boost and it was then I had to use a splitter cable and this is the two sadhas - one eight pin that can actually turn into a six pin they're actually in very handy cables to have especially if you're using some server grade power supplies that only contains six pins so I'll put a link for these cables in the description below I always recommend them I have about ten on hand because I do use a lot of budget power supplies they're actually a very good quality and in this case I used it and at first the 650 T I would not boot up I was actually quite surprised dropped in at 660 and then it booted up and then I put the 650 TI back in and it was at this stage that it booted up for some reason so I decided to do some gaming stress tests and of course the first game that came to mind was Crysis 3 this thing does tend to max out a power supply for regular gaming usage it's actually a very accurate number and does use more power than a fire strike combined benchmark the only game that uses more power than Crysis 3 is mafia 3 but in ways I only consider mafia 3 one of those terribly optimized games there's just a bridge game until Rockstar decided to release the next Grand Theft Auto sometime in 2025 anyhow I started playing Crysis 3 at 1080p high settings the frame rates were terrible there was frame spikes the 650 Ti boost just couldn't simply handle Crysis 3 at 1080p but on that note we did score up to around 165 watts power draw from the wall so I was actually quite surprised there's some combo like this again on this terrible power supply was actually doing quite well for wattage because something like this wouldn't even be 80 plus rated it'd be and maybe 70% region so that did a good job of using little to no power but when we decided to change over to a game pub gee I know people would want to know how does a 650 t8 boost run on pop G well the answer is actually quite terrible and since I recently tested the 660ti that was really good that could run pub G at 1080 P very low at around 60 fps the 650 ti boost however could only run this game at 720p with around 40 fps at best so I was really surprised that the differences between these two graphs cards and that's why I always recommend getting more CUDA cores over V RAM for example the stream processors should be your main concern when you're buying a graphs card of course B Ram is important but the stream process is always the most important thing on a graphics card anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this quick video on terrible power supplies and they can get you out of a pinch just keep your nose ready and your senses ready to go in case something happens and only use them if you absolutely have to if you've got to check some business emails and your main computer as I said before is getting sent off for apparel it will tie you over until you can get something decent or of course if you're just using a really low powered system something like a home theater system that only uses around 50 watts then something like this should be fine since it's not getting stressed at all though with that I was actually happy this build did turn out ok I was expecting the power supply to do a little worse than it did it actually didn't do too bad in general nothing blew up though again when I did get into some serious overclocking I could smell a bad odor coming out from the power supply so that's the start of something bad generally if you smell that warning start tuning things down if you are overclocking on a terrible power splay and let me know in the comments section below have you had a bad power supply blow out on you in the past or have you had RMA even a good power play love reading your comments and thoughts as always and on that note I was honestly surprised with today's combination terrible power supplies zip-tied cooler budget motherboard 4.5 gigahertz on the 2500 k and it did so whilst actually remaining stable and still able to play games like pop G and then I added the gravis card in there 60 ta and it still didn't blow out on me so these budget pals plays although I highly don't recommend you get one and be careful with them they can tie you over if you are in a pinch just don't overclock like I did today