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6800 ultra + 480W power supply. INSUFFICIENT
I took delivery today of a new Aopen Nvidia 6800 Ultra card. I also
installed my new Thermaltake 480W power supply into my Thermaltake 6000+ Xaser V Daimer case and tranferred my system to the new case. I also connected the additional power lead to the 6800 ultra Rest of system; athlon 2800+ 333FSB 512 MB corsair mem 2700 80G Maxtor HD Abit NF7S Mainboard Poineer DVD Nothing overclocked, On start-up I get a message saying that nvidia system monitor has detected that the card is receiving insufficient power!!! and will run at a lower speed to ensure stability. This is very frustrating, I would have thought 480W would be more than enough power - has anyone had similar issues?Could all the fans in the case (5 of + PSU fan and CPU fan) cause a drain on the power?? How do I check the function of the PSU? Could it be faulty? Does anyone own the Aopen version of the card? if so how have you found it? I'm going to try downloading the latest drivers to see if that makes a difference. TIA Toby |
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On start-up I get a message saying that nvidia system monitor has detected
that the card is receiving insufficient power!!! and will run at a lower speed to ensure stability. Did u connect the power to the 2 molex? . . . |
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"Nicolai" wrote in message . .. On start-up I get a message saying that nvidia system monitor has detected that the card is receiving insufficient power!!! and will run at a lower speed to ensure stability. Did u connect the power to the 2 molex? . . . yea, that's what I was thinking too when I read this. Was closing my case when I noticed that I had to make a power connection to my new nvidia graphics card itself, something new for me [though mine is only a 5900xt]. Glad I caught it or I would have been lost for awhile. Can't imagine 480 watts not being enough (I have the same power supply btw). |
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I have now connected both molex leads and given the card it own dedicated
power line from the PSU - this seems to have solved the problem - Painkiller is running really well (kept on crashing with my old card radeon 9700 pro) glad to to back with Nvidia (still have my Geforce 3 in my other PC and will keep it too and sell the radeon). Still amazed that I had the power issue at all - my next purchase will be 400Mhz memory (1Gb) and a 3200 athlon , I just hope that these won't cause more power supply probs!!! Anyway - thanks for your prompt responce T "Nicolai" wrote in message . .. On start-up I get a message saying that nvidia system monitor has detected that the card is receiving insufficient power!!! and will run at a lower speed to ensure stability. Did u connect the power to the 2 molex? . . . |
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"- Painkiller is running really well (kept on crashing with my old card radeon 9700 pro) Painkiller runs fine for me on my Powercolour 9700pro |
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"Athura" wrote in message ... "- Painkiller is running really well (kept on crashing with my old card radeon 9700 pro) Painkiller runs fine for me on my Powercolour 9700pro Same here, there was one specific scene where it kept crashing but it was a game thing. |
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I was never really happy with it, I found it very twitchy with a lot of
games (although, rather amazingly, I went through the whole of Halo with hardly a problem). There may have been other issues (last PSU may have been underpowered at 250W). Still each to their own. T "Kill Bill" wrote in message ... "Athura" wrote in message ... "- Painkiller is running really well (kept on crashing with my old card radeon 9700 pro) Painkiller runs fine for me on my Powercolour 9700pro Same here, there was one specific scene where it kept crashing but it was a game thing. |
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This is very frustrating, I would have thought 480W would be more than
enough power - has anyone had similar issues? As far as I know they lowered the required wattage for the 6800 from 480 down to 350 minimum. I would think you should have more then enough power also. Maybe the supply is not putting out 480 watts. |
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"PRIVATE1964" wrote in message ... This is very frustrating, I would have thought 480W would be more than enough power - has anyone had similar issues? As far as I know they lowered the required wattage for the 6800 from 480 down to 350 minimum. I would think you should have more then enough power also. Maybe the supply is not putting out 480 watts. That's what I was thinking - I may get it checked out. TX |
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Toby wrote: I took delivery today of a new Aopen Nvidia 6800 Ultra card. I also installed my new Thermaltake 480W power supply into my Thermaltake 6000+ Xaser V Daimer case and tranferred my system to the new case. I also connected the additional power lead to the 6800 ultra I'm using a 300watt supply with my BFG6800U OC (446/1.18G GPU/mem), works fine. My card is for sale, BTW. Jeff B |
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