Power Supply advice

Acid_death69 said:
pastymuncher you have the same 8800GT as me have you had any problems with it? for example hanging, freezing or making the pc reset?
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Only if i push the ram to 2000mhz which is why i settled on 1950. It's not the greatest clocking card i have ever had, then that can be said for most of Nvidias releases since the 7 series. There are 3 versions of the Zotac card though. The stock one, the 660mhz core one (mine), and the overclocked 660/2000 one.

Have you got a decent psu? By decent i mean a branded one and not one that came with a case.
 
yerr its a thermaltake TR2 550W. i thought it could be the PSU at first but i tried my other GPU and it was fine. It's defo the 8800gt:confused: Mine is over clocked 675/ im not sure what the rest of the bits are
 
Acid_death69 said:
yerr its a thermaltake TR2 550W. i thought it could be the PSU at first but i tried my other GPU and it was fine. It's defo the 8800gt:confused: Mine is over clocked 675/ im not sure what the rest of the bits are
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I take it you are using the 2 into 1 adapter to power the GT or does your psu have a dedicated pci-e plug? Have you tried changing the adapter/plug to see if it's faulty? Maybe it's not getting enough power.
 
i have two PCI-E plugs, tried both of them so then i tried the 2 into 1 adapter. im still getting the same results. Anything you could think it could be?
 
MikeHiow said:
I have One of these, and it works fine for me.

Before people come out mentioning using expensive, brand-name PSU's. I've never had a budget, bundled PSU fail, yet the £120 Tagan I bought a couple of years ago lasted just over a year.
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You get good and bad ones even with quality brand named psu (Hiper anybody? ;))

The Huntkey isn't too bad, review here:

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=6&artpage=2272&articID=537

As stated the 3.3v and 5v lines have low wattage.

And on a general note about oem, non branded psu's have a look at this roundup and what happens with them including a 650w supply:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=71

Since a psu blowing can take out a lot of the rest of your system or a poor one cause instability, IMO you should never skimp on a psu.
 
Acid_death69 said:
i have two PCI-E plugs, tried both of them so then i tried the 2 into 1 adapter. im still getting the same results. Anything you could think it could be?
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Not particularly. I know there were quite a few problems when they were first released due to people clocking the ram past 2000mhz but apart from that i am not sure.
 
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