Possible to use another PSU greater than 180W (Predator G3-572).

G3-572 uses one of either 135 or 180.

No point in using a more powerful adapter the board doesn't support it anyway its capped to 180w so why waste money this is the reason there are only 2 versions of adapters available and i wouldn't even try more than 180W the mobo may even get a power surge and fry but that's up to who wants to try it to decide i wouldn't take the risk

Technically you can but you shouldn't and regarding overclocking he can't overclock too much cpu is locked memory is locked the oly overclock it's the gpu and not too much so i don't really see the need for a higher power adapter my 135w its more than enough for mine and i have undervolted/optimized and overclocked the gpu +200 core clock +250 memory clock and its stable running at max 65-69 all games on ultra and cpu 70-75 and as i am always on AC my battery never discharged even once i never noticed and when i play it's always 10h+ non stop so again i don't see the need of having a higher wattage power adapter

HK1994 said:

Deejay_tech said:

thats what i said. he can use a higher wattage psu, but for what purpose.?
except for running the adapter a bit cooler on peak loads.
the golden rule being , total of all peak loads of the system components x 1.5 times. ( i prefer 2x times).
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Yeah my NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB is constantly hitting the PWR limit in games.

I noticed that it only happens when I reached a certain degree of temps- around 80*C.

The clock speed drop isn't too terrible, but it happens every 3 seconds or so.

As the temperature rises more power is required to reach the same frequency. The power limit adjustment is locked from vBIOS, so as the other users mentioned a more powerful charger won't help, except that the charger with higher wattage rating will run cooler at higher loads.

If you want to increase the power limit you should look online for a vBIOS mod of the GPU, which unlocks power and voltage limits. After you do that, then you can look for a higher wattage adapter(of course the voltage of the other adapter should be the same as the original charger).

Anyway, I don't think that is worth it, because there is no point to void warranty by unlocking the vBIOS and then spending money for a charger just for some 5-10% improvement in performance. Additionally, as you mentioned the GPU temperature reaches 80C, which is high considering that you want to raise the power limit. With more power output the GPU will heat up more and probably throttle down, which won't give you any perfomance.