Buying a bigger power supply for more FPS
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What it does
Upgrading to a higher-wattage power supply expecting more frames.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. A power supply's job is to deliver enough clean, stable power — not to make your GPU faster. Once it comfortably covers what your parts draw, adding more watts changes nothing your frame counter will see. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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