Greetings.
I had a system which worked fine, until I changed my Creative sound card for Asus Xonar DX, and then I started getting BSOD's with nvidia drivers and random hang ups. My system was made for me at my work (my company assembles PC's and I have an option to just get a PC via them cheaper and free service). After I started having this problem, I decided to get into this, learn more about it, and now I have questions.
I have a TR2-420PP PSU, which is a 420W PSU (it has 200W declared limit for 3.33V and 5V combined, and it has two 12V lines, one 15A and one 10A).
I have:
i5-2400 CPU
NVidia 560 Ti GPU
2x 1TB hard disk
1x 3TB hard disk
1x 120GB SSD
1x Blueray drive
ASUS Xonar DX
Now, before I installed Xonar, it worked fine. However, if we look at NVidia page (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560ti/specifications) it says I need 500W total system power. I clearly do not have that with my 420W PSU. It also says maximum graphics power is 170W on that page. Now, if that is so, why do I need a 500W Total system power then?
According to test, the extra power DX draws (its a sound card that requires an extra floppy power connector) is very little, no more than 10W, so I really doubt that it could overload my system that much to cause the problems.
Also, how do I know which power line is which? I mean, there are, amongst others, two cords with molex connectors on them that come out of the PSU, also one cord with HDD power connectors and one PCI-E 6pin connector. They all, I assume, carry both 12v and 5v power, so how do I know which is attached to which line?
The way they assembled the PC for me is using 2xMolex to 1xPCI-E connectors to power my GPU (it takes 2 external power supply), and they didn't use PCI-E connector that comes out of the PSU at all.
So my questions are:
- Why do I need and do I really need 500W total system power?
- Does it matter wether I power up the GPU via molex to pci-e adaptor, or via pci-e cable that comes out of the PSU?
- How do I know which of the 12v connectors that come out of the PSU are on which 12v line? And does it really matter?
- What in my PC uses which voltage (except GPU which clearly uses 12v because PCI-E power connector has no 5v wire) so that I know which falls under 200W limit and which under remaining 220W?
- Could it really be that my PSU was fine with Creative X-Fi card, but changing that for Asus Xonar DX that requires external power supply pushed it over the edge?
- How could I diagnose the reason of the hangups, to track it to the PSU or something else?
The senior technician at our company tells me that 420W is fine for my PC and when we tested with a device that measures Watt usage, it never showed over 250W (we tried to load it with various tests and stuff). He says that Xonar drivers or Nvidia drivers are probably to blame.
I had a system which worked fine, until I changed my Creative sound card for Asus Xonar DX, and then I started getting BSOD's with nvidia drivers and random hang ups. My system was made for me at my work (my company assembles PC's and I have an option to just get a PC via them cheaper and free service). After I started having this problem, I decided to get into this, learn more about it, and now I have questions.
I have a TR2-420PP PSU, which is a 420W PSU (it has 200W declared limit for 3.33V and 5V combined, and it has two 12V lines, one 15A and one 10A).
I have:
i5-2400 CPU
NVidia 560 Ti GPU
2x 1TB hard disk
1x 3TB hard disk
1x 120GB SSD
1x Blueray drive
ASUS Xonar DX
Now, before I installed Xonar, it worked fine. However, if we look at NVidia page (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560ti/specifications) it says I need 500W total system power. I clearly do not have that with my 420W PSU. It also says maximum graphics power is 170W on that page. Now, if that is so, why do I need a 500W Total system power then?
According to test, the extra power DX draws (its a sound card that requires an extra floppy power connector) is very little, no more than 10W, so I really doubt that it could overload my system that much to cause the problems.
Also, how do I know which power line is which? I mean, there are, amongst others, two cords with molex connectors on them that come out of the PSU, also one cord with HDD power connectors and one PCI-E 6pin connector. They all, I assume, carry both 12v and 5v power, so how do I know which is attached to which line?
The way they assembled the PC for me is using 2xMolex to 1xPCI-E connectors to power my GPU (it takes 2 external power supply), and they didn't use PCI-E connector that comes out of the PSU at all.
So my questions are:
- Why do I need and do I really need 500W total system power?
- Does it matter wether I power up the GPU via molex to pci-e adaptor, or via pci-e cable that comes out of the PSU?
- How do I know which of the 12v connectors that come out of the PSU are on which 12v line? And does it really matter?
- What in my PC uses which voltage (except GPU which clearly uses 12v because PCI-E power connector has no 5v wire) so that I know which falls under 200W limit and which under remaining 220W?
- Could it really be that my PSU was fine with Creative X-Fi card, but changing that for Asus Xonar DX that requires external power supply pushed it over the edge?
- How could I diagnose the reason of the hangups, to track it to the PSU or something else?
The senior technician at our company tells me that 420W is fine for my PC and when we tested with a device that measures Watt usage, it never showed over 250W (we tried to load it with various tests and stuff). He says that Xonar drivers or Nvidia drivers are probably to blame.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram