That would be enough and is a good brand but I wouldn't go any lower. I always try to have atleast 750 watts due to future upgrades and the fact that PSUs lose efficency over time.
If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
That would be enough and is a good brand but I wouldn't go any lower. I always try to have atleast 750 watts due to future upgrades and the fact that PSUs lose efficency over time.
If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
That would be enough and is a good brand but I wouldn't go any lower. I always try to have atleast 750 watts due to future upgrades and the fact that PSUs lose efficency over time.
If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
Do you agree with the 600W OCZ Stealth then?
If I recall, it's a good deal for the price. Just don't excess with the wattage as there's no point in it.
Ive just had a massive scare, ever since the CMOS wipe the device manager does not even say "unkown device". Does this mean the card is now dead??
No, and you shouldn't really have done that. Think you might need to update your BIOS or something now. Taking out the CMOS battery is really a weapon of last resort after everything has already gone tits up, in my opinion.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
Yeah, hes going to need to redo the Mobo. Gah, what a mess. Even if he tries to flash the mobo, theres a chance it wont work. Seen plenty of mobos go the way of the dodo doing that. Id recommend trying the card in a new system. If it works, your pc is toast lol.
What are you guys talking about.. Resetting the CMOS doesn't hurt the board at all, it just sets it to factory defaults like when you first opened it out of the box. There's absolutely nothing that can go wrong from resetting the CMOS. We're not talking flashing the BIOS (ie upgrading firmware). It doesn't touch the non-volatile EEPROM the actual BIOS is stored in at all and is perfectly safe.
It's no different than going into your BIOS and hitting 'Reset to defaults' except it also forces the BIOS to redetect your CPU. There's nothing it could do to effect whether that video card was DOA or not. If the video card isn't showing up now at all it's probably because the video card was DOA/underpowered and the BIOS couldn't detect it at all the 2nd time through.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I had 2 identical wireless network cards, one would only show up as Unknown Device (unusable) and eventually stopped showing up at all. The other one worked perfectly fine. I think you just have a bad video card, but it could be the PSU since it doesn't even have a 6 pin PCI-e connector..
If you can read the info off the label on your PSU or post a picture of that label it could tell us a lot about the quality of the PSU in there before you start throwing money at it. If you want to try a new PSU I'd buy one from a nearby large retail shop, see if it works, if it does then you can return it and order one for a much better price online. Really the best option is to just test the video card in another computer.
Btw, when you hooked up the 4 pin adapter you should hook each 4 pin connector up to a completely different power cable coming off the PSU.
What are you guys talking about.. Resetting the CMOS doesn't hurt the board at all, it just sets it to factory defaults like when you first opened it out of the box. There's absolutely nothing that can go wrong from resetting the CMOS. We're not talking flashing the BIOS (ie upgrading firmware). It doesn't touch the non-volatile EEPROM the actual BIOS is stored in at all and is perfectly safe.
It's no different than going into your BIOS and hitting 'Reset to defaults' except it also forces the BIOS to redetect your CPU. There's nothing it could do to effect whether that video card was DOA or not. If the video card isn't showing up now at all it's probably because the video card was DOA and the BIOS couldn't detect it at all the 2nd time through.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I had 2 identical wireless network cards, one would only show up as Unknown Device (unusable) and eventually stopped showing up at all. The other one worked perfectly fine. I think you just have a bad video card, but it could be the PSU since it doesn't even have a 6 pin PCI-e connector..
If you can read the info off the label on your PSU or post a picture of that label it could tell us a lot about the quality of the PSU in there before you start throwing money at it. If you want to try a new PSU I'd buy one from a nearby large retail shop, see if it works, if it does then you can return it and order one for a much better price online. Really the best option is to just test the video card in another computer.
Thanks for this as this is what i thaught. I have however ordered the new PSU as mine is an old 450W unbranded, therefore a new one will be needed soon anyway. I just hope that the new PSU will not do any harm. Either way, on Friday I have an IT friend coming over to take a look. So hopefully he will be able to either solve the problem, or at least locate it. On friday I should be able to rule out the issue being a power one with the new PSU, i hope!
Originally posted by pompey606 Thanks for this as this is what i thaught. I have however ordered the new PSU as mine is an old 450W unbranded, therefore a new one will be needed soon anyway. I just hope that the new PSU will not do any harm. Either way, on Friday I have an IT friend coming over to take a look. So hopefully he will be able to either solve the problem, or at least locate it. On friday I should be able to rule out the issue being a power one with the new PSU, i hope!
Cool, good deal. I agree you do need a PSU in the end if it's a generic without a 6 pin, just not worth the unpredictable trouble they can cause, and hopefully it solves the problem too.
I have been offered a Corsair 550W next day at my local shop. It is 90 pounds however. Worth a try?
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
I have been offered a Corsair 550W next day at my local shop. It is 90 pounds however. Worth a try?
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
your comment was a tad confusing dfan. So to update you guys. the new PSU is coming for Friday. In the mean time I put my old 8600GT back in to see if I could get any card to work on my PCI Express line. Thankfully it fired up without a hitch. This helps me to narrow it down to the PSU or faulty graphics card, not 100%, but it does show the motherboard is working fine and capable of picking up new hardware on the PCI Express.
I have been offered a Corsair 550W next day at my local shop. It is 90 pounds however. Worth a try?
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
I understand many people don't know that much about computers, no need to take it personally.
So the new PSU came, was very nice and easy to install. 5770 still did not work! An IT friend came over, could not find any reason for it not to work. I even found the correct, most recent BIOS settings and they did not help. So this lead to the most likely conclusion that the card itself is dead. Sending it back for another one.
Ugh too bad. Makes sense though, underpowered GPU should at least post since the idle load is only a few Watts and then crash once things get going, plus the 5770 is only like 10W more than the 8600GT.
Just bad luck but that's what lifetime warranty rocks for even after your vendor warranty is up.. My buddy has an XFX 8800 GTX that died after a year but since the warranty is double lifetime he didn't need a receipt or anything, they're one of the easiest companies to RMA I've dealt with.
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If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
Do you agree with the 600W OCZ Stealth then?
If computer eats around 200 watts, such big psu is a serious overkill. Real numbers are being exaggerated big time.
Do you agree with the 600W OCZ Stealth then?
If I recall, it's a good deal for the price. Just don't excess with the wattage as there's no point in it.
Ive just had a massive scare, ever since the CMOS wipe the device manager does not even say "unkown device". Does this mean the card is now dead??
No, and you shouldn't really have done that. Think you might need to update your BIOS or something now. Taking out the CMOS battery is really a weapon of last resort after everything has already gone tits up, in my opinion.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Yeah, hes going to need to redo the Mobo. Gah, what a mess. Even if he tries to flash the mobo, theres a chance it wont work. Seen plenty of mobos go the way of the dodo doing that. Id recommend trying the card in a new system. If it works, your pc is toast lol.
What are you guys talking about.. Resetting the CMOS doesn't hurt the board at all, it just sets it to factory defaults like when you first opened it out of the box. There's absolutely nothing that can go wrong from resetting the CMOS. We're not talking flashing the BIOS (ie upgrading firmware). It doesn't touch the non-volatile EEPROM the actual BIOS is stored in at all and is perfectly safe.
It's no different than going into your BIOS and hitting 'Reset to defaults' except it also forces the BIOS to redetect your CPU. There's nothing it could do to effect whether that video card was DOA or not. If the video card isn't showing up now at all it's probably because the video card was DOA/underpowered and the BIOS couldn't detect it at all the 2nd time through.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I had 2 identical wireless network cards, one would only show up as Unknown Device (unusable) and eventually stopped showing up at all. The other one worked perfectly fine. I think you just have a bad video card, but it could be the PSU since it doesn't even have a 6 pin PCI-e connector..
If you can read the info off the label on your PSU or post a picture of that label it could tell us a lot about the quality of the PSU in there before you start throwing money at it. If you want to try a new PSU I'd buy one from a nearby large retail shop, see if it works, if it does then you can return it and order one for a much better price online. Really the best option is to just test the video card in another computer.
Btw, when you hooked up the 4 pin adapter you should hook each 4 pin connector up to a completely different power cable coming off the PSU.
Thanks for this as this is what i thaught. I have however ordered the new PSU as mine is an old 450W unbranded, therefore a new one will be needed soon anyway. I just hope that the new PSU will not do any harm. Either way, on Friday I have an IT friend coming over to take a look. So hopefully he will be able to either solve the problem, or at least locate it. On friday I should be able to rule out the issue being a power one with the new PSU, i hope!
Cool, good deal. I agree you do need a PSU in the end if it's a generic without a 6 pin, just not worth the unpredictable trouble they can cause, and hopefully it solves the problem too.
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
your comment was a tad confusing dfan. So to update you guys. the new PSU is coming for Friday. In the mean time I put my old 8600GT back in to see if I could get any card to work on my PCI Express line. Thankfully it fired up without a hitch. This helps me to narrow it down to the PSU or faulty graphics card, not 100%, but it does show the motherboard is working fine and capable of picking up new hardware on the PCI Express.
Regards,
Pompey
this site, http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/landingpages/psuguide/default.asp, recommends at least a 500 watt for that video card. I usually try and go a little higher than the min but 550 W should be good as long as it supplies enough amps. You can usually find the amp requirements on the original box. Corsair is an excellent power supply so should be no problems there. As long as you don't have a lot of other devices on your computer, ie add-in cards, multiple hard drives, etc, you should be good.
When do people learn, recommendations have nothing in common with real power needs. They are only made so the system will work out even with lowest quality tin can psu you can find.
I don't get your point nor do i understand the need for you to be a smartass in giving it. I was trying to help him spend the least amount of money while getting his computer to work. If you have a different recommendation, please feel free to address it.
I understand many people don't know that much about computers, no need to take it personally.
So the new PSU came, was very nice and easy to install. 5770 still did not work! An IT friend came over, could not find any reason for it not to work. I even found the correct, most recent BIOS settings and they did not help. So this lead to the most likely conclusion that the card itself is dead. Sending it back for another one.
Ugh too bad. Makes sense though, underpowered GPU should at least post since the idle load is only a few Watts and then crash once things get going, plus the 5770 is only like 10W more than the 8600GT.
Just bad luck but that's what lifetime warranty rocks for even after your vendor warranty is up.. My buddy has an XFX 8800 GTX that died after a year but since the warranty is double lifetime he didn't need a receipt or anything, they're one of the easiest companies to RMA I've dealt with.