I can't believe this, but please spec me a PSU....

Grimley

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OK folks,

I getting sick of the PSU in my gaming rig. (Antec Truepower 650) Just over a year old.

It won't supply power properly to my graphics card (an MSI HD7850)

I've tried 2 leads from it (plug in and the standard 6 pin PCI-E lead) It'll work once, then reboot with a blank screen, or it'll boot OK then the screen will go blank after a few minutes or when I put the lid back on.

I dont think its the card, because I've put the card in my everyday PC twice & AFAIK it works fine in that.

I thought about this as a replacement.

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1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
Total : £85.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



Spec of gaming rig:

2500K not overclocked

Asus P8Z68-M PRO

Intel X25 80GB SSD

Western Digital Scorpio Blue HD.

Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Classic

MSI HD7850 as specced earlier.

2 x Pioneer DVD Writer/Optical drives (DVR218L & DVR219L)

Thoughts?
 
I thought that too. It powered the previous card OK until I had to RMA that & got the MSI card as a replacement. The thing is, I could swap the PSU's round but I dont want the antec powering my everyday rig as I consider that to be the inferior PSU (the other PSU is a seasonic X560) it would not need to power a card though as I use onboard for graphics (AMD trinity based)

Trouble is I have some big expenses coming up (new car, hols etc) so I'm trying to keep my spending down to a minimum right now & I don't have the time to take apart both pcs to swap PSU's in the next couple of weeks.

The gaming rig is hardly used but its annoying when it doesn't work properly.
 
OK, well I'll swap them round & see what happens when I get time to do so, If the Seasonic fails to power the card in the rig then I'll contact the vendor about the card.
 
I'd be surprised if the PSU is at fault.

Your gaming set-up needs about 200W max so any PSU would run it just fine.

I think you'll be wasting the money on a new PSU and still have exactly the same problems.

You have a hardware / driver/ config problem rather than a power problem unless the PSU has totally failed.

A blank screen doesn't mean the PSU can't power the card, more likely that the card didn't initialise properly

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RMA is going to be difficult to prove that its faulty, as it powers the rest of the system fine.

decto said:
I'd be surprised if the PSU is at fault.

I think you'll be wasting the money on a new PSU and still have exactly the same problems.

You have a hardware /driver/ config problem rather than a power problem unless the PSU has totally failed.

A blank screen doesn't mean the PSU can't power the card, more likely that the card didn't initialise properly
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Well that's why I'm going to swap the PSU's over, I want to eliminate the PSU as being the problem.

I don't think its a hardware problem, though the card doesnt sit bolt upright in the case as I think it should, it's locked in the PCI-E slot though.

Card initialise properly? I didn't know graphics cards had to do that, I'll put that in the RMA report if I have to RMA the card, thanks.
 
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Grimley said:
RMA is going to be difficult to prove that its faulty, as it powers the rest of the system fine.



Well that's why I'm going to swap the PSU's over, I want to eliminate the PSU as being the problem.

I don't think its a hardware problem, though the card doesnt sit bolt upright in the case as I think it should, it's locked in the PCI-E slot though.

Card initialise properly? I didn't know graphics cards had to do that, I'll put that in the RMA report if I have to RMA the card, thanks.
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Initialisation is more likely to be a driver issue.

Clean out the old GPU drivers, check you have the latest motherboard chipset drivers installed.

Given the main board supports Lucid Virtu are you sure that the graphics output is not being diverted to the integrated gpu connections.

Lucid - i mode display connects to system board - slight overhead overhead on 3d gaming
Lucid - d mode display connects to GPU output no overhead on 3d gaming but can't power card down for desktop tasks.

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Well I think the fault was with the Graphics card in the end as it stopped outputting a display when I was watching the Champions League final on my gaming rig tonight. There may well have been nothing wrong with the Antec after all. :(
 
TBH I had 2 of those Antec TP 650's, 1st one died after about 18 months and the new replacement went into my attic as a last resort after plugging in a 7970 GHz and it screeched like Susan Boyle.
It prompted me to do a search on google and I found other people had problems of the same description.
 
Makes sense that the issue was the GFX, the Antec Truepower 650 is actually made by Seasonic so I wouldn't have expected it to have any issues.


evohicks said:
TBH I had 2 of those Antec TP 650's, 1st one died after about 18 months and the new replacement went into my attic as a last resort after plugging in a 7970 GHz and it screeched like Susan Boyle.
It prompted me to do a search on google and I found other people had problems of the same description.
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The old True power PSU's were made by Channel Well, the newer ones are made by Seasonic (TP) and Delta (TP Gold) and are much better.
 
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