Need a new PSU

DEL 707 · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:11

I've tried practically every thing to solve my crashing problem so I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a new PSU.

At the moment I'm using a Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W), but I don't fancy getting a straight replacement, can anyone give me some recommendations?

Here are my system specs -

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler
BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache

DEL 707 · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:59

Heats fine.
Systems not overclocked, from what other people have told me, my memory is underclocked.
Run ever kind of test possible, everything checks out, but I'm still getting the screeching crashing problems when playing games.
The only thing that's helped with the problem is putting in the old 1gb RAM from my old machine, but I know my 2gb RAM's fine since it's passed memtest several times and I've used it in my old machine playing games with no incidents.

I havn't tried uping the voltage, I'm not too sure how to do it and I'm worried I'd fry something inside.

DEL 707 · 27 Aug 2006 at 14:08

Just checked my bios, the DRAM voltage is at 2.66V at the moment.

DEL 707 · 27 Aug 2006 at 16:26

Thanks, I'll give that a try

DEL 707 · 27 Aug 2006 at 19:30

2.76v didn't work, game crashed in under a minute, same with 2.86v.

Thought what the hell and put it down to 2.56, so far so good...

DEL 707 · 28 Aug 2006 at 00:23

Still working, been playing an old game that didn't even work for long on my old memory, can lowering the voltage have really solved the problem?

I can't tell what the voltage on the RAM is on my other machine since it's set to auto, this motherboard doesn't have that feature.

DEL 707 · 29 Aug 2006 at 11:51

I'll be damned it's still working

I've been trying to sort this out for the best part of 9 months!