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Does this tell you something?
Whilst giving you voltage indications within a tolerance. A multimeter can tell you the voltages at load on the card itself and therefore diagnose bad joints, drooping rails etc. For what you paid for a tester you could have bought a cheap dmm. I assure you its not hard to use and every overclocker should have one. Think of it as an electrical swiss army knife.Not many people know how to use a Multimeter fornowagain!
I don't!
As has already been stated as voltage goes down so does temps.
As has already been stated as voltage goes down so does temps.
Ashley, How old is your PSU and what GPU were you running before installing the two HD4870's?
I would love to snap my fingers and fix your problems but I can't!
If you can't wangle a PSU tester from someone they cost about £14 pounds and they are worth there weight in gold at times like these.
From what you are saying though it does really sound like your old PSU has had it, which is a pain right now because its sunday and you have some amazing hardware in front of you.
What I suggest you do it uninstall one HD4870 and chill out and play some games with *just* the one
I have just a single HD4850 and I'm gonna chill out myself now after this thread and relax.
When you wake up feeling refreshed I reckon it would be a good move to source a new PSU, this is a bummer because its more money on top of your outlay for the cards but I suspect other people will have the same proble as you soon.
It sounds like your right, Ive come from a 8800GTX, will default back to one card till I get another PSU then
Just strange theres no room for margin anymore though, even after downclocking my CPU and disconnecting everything it still gives up the ghost
Its not normal for the card, but I have seen it on molex adapters and you can only get 2x12v conductors from 2xmolex so it makes sense. How do you have these arranged, one molex/adapter per card and one 6pin per card?
Have you tried running the top card from the adapter/6 pins and the failing card just from proper 6 pins?
Haha thanks Will!
So maybe not the temps then? Without being able check the voltages at each card under load I can only suggest trying the failing card with 2 x native 6 pin pci-e, just to rule out a bad joints from the adapters.
