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Video card power supply?
About a month ago I tried upgrading my GF 4200 to a Radeon 9800, but went
back to the 4200 because the 9800 was slower running NASCAR 2003. I now purchased a GF FX 5900 Ultra and I am experiencing the same thing. All settings the same, at the start of a race my 4200 gives me 40fps and the 5900 ultra gives me 29 pfs. My question is, could my power supply be the reason these cards are not performing well? The Radeon suggested a 300w and the FX 5900 Ultra suggest a 350w ps. I am currently using a 300w ps. I do not get any boot errors or reboots. I was just thinking the cards might not be getting the power to push them. Anyone have any comments on this. Thanks. Jeff |
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300 Watt power supply is the MINIMUM needed, and that assumes that it is a
High Quality brand of power supply like Antec or such that really can deliver that much power continuously (which most less expensive power supplies cannot.) -- DaveW "Jeff" wrote in message ... About a month ago I tried upgrading my GF 4200 to a Radeon 9800, but went back to the 4200 because the 9800 was slower running NASCAR 2003. I now purchased a GF FX 5900 Ultra and I am experiencing the same thing. All settings the same, at the start of a race my 4200 gives me 40fps and the 5900 ultra gives me 29 pfs. My question is, could my power supply be the reason these cards are not performing well? The Radeon suggested a 300w and the FX 5900 Ultra suggest a 350w ps. I am currently using a 300w ps. I do not get any boot errors or reboots. I was just thinking the cards might not be getting the power to push them. Anyone have any comments on this. Thanks. Jeff |
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did u plug in the 12v power to the card?
"Jeff" wrote in message ... About a month ago I tried upgrading my GF 4200 to a Radeon 9800, but went back to the 4200 because the 9800 was slower running NASCAR 2003. I now purchased a GF FX 5900 Ultra and I am experiencing the same thing. All settings the same, at the start of a race my 4200 gives me 40fps and the 5900 ultra gives me 29 pfs. My question is, could my power supply be the reason these cards are not performing well? The Radeon suggested a 300w and the FX 5900 Ultra suggest a 350w ps. I am currently using a 300w ps. I do not get any boot errors or reboots. I was just thinking the cards might not be getting the power to push them. Anyone have any comments on this. Thanks. Jeff |
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Yes, thanks for checking though. My motherboard is a k7n420 pro, thats the
NForce 1 motherboard. It's two years old. I just got back from Microcenter and tried a 550w Antec power supply with no changes. It must be that the motherboard is not compatable with the new powered cards. It will play games with them but it's not getting all the power from the card. There is no way in hades that a gf 4200 can outperform a fx 5900 or ati 9800. Oh well back to the store with the 5900 and power supply. Maybe I'll upgrade in a year or so. Thankls again. Jeff "ac" wrote in message ... did u plug in the 12v power to the card? "Jeff" wrote in message ... About a month ago I tried upgrading my GF 4200 to a Radeon 9800, but went back to the 4200 because the 9800 was slower running NASCAR 2003. I now purchased a GF FX 5900 Ultra and I am experiencing the same thing. All settings the same, at the start of a race my 4200 gives me 40fps and the 5900 ultra gives me 29 pfs. My question is, could my power supply be the reason these cards are not performing well? The Radeon suggested a 300w and the FX 5900 Ultra suggest a 350w ps. I am currently using a 300w ps. I do not get any boot errors or reboots. I was just thinking the cards might not be getting the power to push them. Anyone have any comments on this. Thanks. Jeff |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:58:42 -0500, "Jeff"
wrote: About a month ago I tried upgrading my GF 4200 to a Radeon 9800, but went back to the 4200 because the 9800 was slower running NASCAR 2003. I now purchased a GF FX 5900 Ultra and I am experiencing the same thing. All settings the same, at the start of a race my 4200 gives me 40fps and the 5900 ultra gives me 29 pfs. My question is, could my power supply be the reason these cards are not performing well? The Radeon suggested a 300w and the FX 5900 Ultra suggest a 350w ps. I am currently using a 300w ps. I do not get any boot errors or reboots. I was just thinking the cards might not be getting the power to push them. Anyone have any comments on this. Thanks. Drivers? Slow computer? -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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