small psu pants

[mikef]

sff psu's

Hi all, new on here and kinda need a little advice

Just built a biostar 300g media center and wanted to stick a good pci-e graphics card in it but with the psu only giving out 250w power its going to be a bit of a no goer. Looked around and cant find any other small psus with good rails etc, has anyone done anything with external psu housing or case modding to fit a bigger psu in, or laptop brick and dc-dc converter etc

any advice and photo's is appreciated.

 

[mikef]

the spec

3.6ghz 1mb cache cpu
2 x 512mb ddr
80 gig sata drive
sony dvd writer
wireless mini pci
tv card with 2 analogue tuners

the graphics card

sapphire gto2 256mb

The problem

125 degrees vpu

the solution

any ideas?

Cheers guys

Mike

 

[mikef]

Thanks guys, i cant understand why my system isnt stable then. I was told it was the psu, i need to look in to this a bit more.

Is there any software that can measure the strain on the psu?

could this simply be a dodgy x800 gto2 card?

 

[mikef]

no its already in althouh if i dont fix the problem by the weekend its coming out as the pc has onboard as well. The pc just blue screens after about 10 minutes, the vpu temp soars even with the fans on full wack, it got really hot the other day and i'm quite lucky the card wasnt fried.

I cant find any possible explanation, even re did all the thermal paste just in case as i had a sparkle card go because of dodgy heat sink fixings and paste. I havent unplugged all unnecessary devices and then tried it but i think thats the next step, is there no software that can tell me if the board is getting enough power?

 

[mikef]

thats what i thought but i'm getting conflicting information.

I'm gonna take it back and try and get another. If it still doesnt work i'll know its the pc then for sure