Recently I noticed that while playing a game (after only a few seconds) my PSU (corsair vx550w, which came with the pc 4 years ago) cooling fan becomes extremely loud. It sounds so bad, that I am afraid its gonna burn so I stopped playing games all month. Today I think I realized that the noise is actually not due to a problem with the PSU, but its actually just the graphic card (bfg 260 gtx 216 cores) that needs so much ampers for no reason !
For example in idle mode (by Everest) it consumes 9 Ampers (which is about 100w on IDLE !!), and gets to full load - 41 ampers while gaming (call of juarez, bioshock, starcraft 2).
The first time I noticed it was right after installing bioshock infinite (which forced me to install its version of visual c++, and directx 9) and my guess is that this game fucked it up (I tried installing other directx 9 installations with no luck so I might be wrong)...
So in conclusion - please help!
For example in idle mode (by Everest) it consumes 9 Ampers (which is about 100w on IDLE !!), and gets to full load - 41 ampers while gaming (call of juarez, bioshock, starcraft 2).
The first time I noticed it was right after installing bioshock infinite (which forced me to install its version of visual c++, and directx 9) and my guess is that this game fucked it up (I tried installing other directx 9 installations with no luck so I might be wrong)...
So in conclusion - please help!
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