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Inadequate power supply - tell tale signs?

Mslug · 2007-07-23 17:26:36

So I bought a 6800 Ultra recently as a cheap upgrade to my aging pc and was wondering what are the tell tale signs that it isn\'t getting enough power? I was playing CoH (max settings woot:p ) and I saw a slight graphical distortion and the \"driver stopped working but recovered\" as windows told me. it\'s a 400W ps, 16A…

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23-07-2007 6:26pm

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Mslug

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So I bought a 6800 Ultra recently as a cheap upgrade to my aging pc and was wondering what are the tell tale signs that it isn\'t getting enough power?

I was playing CoH (max settings woot:p ) and I saw a slight graphical distortion and the \"driver stopped working but recovered\" as windows told me.

it\'s a 400W ps, 16A on the 12V rail, running 3HDDs a slightly OC\'d 2600 Ath XP and an audigy 2.

EDIT: Update.

Turns out it was just overheating. Took off the face plate of the heat sink and was greeted by a centemetre thick layer of compacted dust blocking the air intake to the heat sink. Cleared it out and everythings gravy.

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