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The manual with my card was a generic Aopen GeForce manual - i.e. not
specific to the 6800U - it only had one basic diagram on the last page telling me to connect a power cable to ONE of the 4-pin connectors!! When the problem came up I then connected to both 4-pins (no change), and then finally solved it by having a dedicated cable from the PSU i.e not connected to any other peripherals - I worked this out myself - the manual was crap!! Even so, I'm still amazed, with a 480W supply, that this was an issue. Does anyone have any views / expereience with Thermaltake gear?? T "RaceFace" wrote in message news In the future, might I suggest to RTFM. Maybe I was lucky, but in my eVGA 6800GT box, there was a 5"x8" card with about a 20pt font saying "Connecting the GeForce 6800 to a Power Supply", with 3 color pictures showing how to connect it, and a paragraph detailing the process. I'm sure something similar was mentioned in your manual. "Toby" wrote in message ... 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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"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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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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Ah, my apologies then.
The 6800s use a lot of juice. More importantly, they require a constant, stable feed of current. If you have anything else on the same set of power connectors, the current will fluctuate. That's inevitable, even with a good power supply. That's why it has to be on a separate cable. Now that you have yours on a separate one, you might even be able to get away with using only one Molex connector.. but I wouldn't bother. With the power supply you have, you've got enough grunt to leave the 2nd one connected. "Toby" wrote in message ... The manual with my card was a generic Aopen GeForce manual - i.e. not specific to the 6800U - it only had one basic diagram on the last page telling me to connect a power cable to ONE of the 4-pin connectors!! When the problem came up I then connected to both 4-pins (no change), and then finally solved it by having a dedicated cable from the PSU i.e not connected to any other peripherals - I worked this out myself - the manual was crap!! Even so, I'm still amazed, with a 480W supply, that this was an issue. Does anyone have any views / expereience with Thermaltake gear?? T "RaceFace" wrote in message news In the future, might I suggest to RTFM. Maybe I was lucky, but in my eVGA 6800GT box, there was a 5"x8" card with about a 20pt font saying "Connecting the GeForce 6800 to a Power Supply", with 3 color pictures showing how to connect it, and a paragraph detailing the process. I'm sure something similar was mentioned in your manual. "Toby" wrote in message ... 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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WHY ???????????? Going with the x800xt. If you are having any driver issues, 61.77 was released today. Of course I'm not having 'driver issues', there have never been any "issues" with these cards, drivers or otherwise, that materially affect the usefulness of these cards for end users. John Lewis is the only person on planet Earth who has knowledge of "driver issues". Jeff B |
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"JB" wrote in message news:d0PNc.203872$XM6.155659@attbi_s53... WHY ???????????? Going with the x800xt. If you are having any driver issues, 61.77 was released today. Of course I'm not having 'driver issues', there have never been any "issues" with these cards, drivers or otherwise, that materially affect the usefulness of these cards for end users. John Lewis is the only person on planet Earth who has knowledge of "driver issues". Jeff B Bull****. |
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