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Geforce FX5600 Ultra: Power Indicator reports card is not getting enough power.
I recently upgraded my graphics card to a Leadtek Geforce FX5600
Ultra. Having heard that the FXs suck a lot of power I also got a new 425 Watt PSU from HEC -Heroilci. I used the 4 pin connector supplied with the card to connect it to one of the free PSU cables. Once installed the card ran great, and gaming performance has improved significantly. I haven't experienced any lockups or crashes whatsoever. In order to tweak the card a little I downloaded Nvhardpage from www.guru3d.com. This program allows you to unlock your cards potential by adjusting the AGP settings, overclocking the cards chip and memory etc. The program also unlocks some detonator features. One of them is called "power indicator" and when clicked brings up a window saying that NVIDIA's sentinel reports that Nvidias Graphic Card is not getting enough power. This seemed a bit weird to me so I wander if there is anyone else who has experienced something like this. Should this be a cause of concern? I am not sure how accurate this is anyway since as I understand "power indicator" and Nvidias Sentinel are probably undocumented features. Cpu: AMD Athlon 2000 , not overclocked OS: Windows XP Pro MB: Asus A7V 266 E Ram: 512 MB PSU: 425 Watt Display drivers: Detonator 43.45 |
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