- Jul 12, 2013
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I saved up for ages to buy this card.
Now my previous cards all ran fine at about 70 degrees. but as soon as this card hits it, according to the driver monitor at least, my PC dies
So let me go into a bit more detail.
This morning, 12 July 2013, I got the new card. I put it in booted up, installed driver, rebooted, all is fine.
In starcraft 2 everything ran on max just fine.
In Bioshock infinite however there was a problem.
My nose picked up a strange scent and about after 5 minutes my PC just turned off. Off completely. no fans no LEDs no nothing.
I turned up the speed of the fan that blows directly onto my graphics card. Again, after about 5 minutes, the system turns off.
The weird thing is. I kept alt tabbing into the driver window and the card's temperature only read 67 degrees, and I'm amusing it might have hit 70. but there is nothing I can use to see that.
Could it perhaps be a heating issue? Because when I touch the card with my finger it's quite hot.
What about power supply?
anyone know of a tool to measure my graphics card's power consumption?
I'm running a 500W supply. I have a 6-pin plugged in. and under the 8-pin port, I have a 6 pin with the plus 2 from a extra cable connected to the power supply.
I've tried looking for a bigger power supply with a 8 pin port but found nothing.
only things I've found are
Raidmax RX 850AE
http://www.raidmax.com/psu/rx_850ae.html
and a Xigmatek 700W
(only link I can find for it)
http://www.lelong.com.my/xigmatek-power-supply-tauro-700w-xtk-tb-0700b-castleit-K1338622-2007-01-Sale-I.htm
any opinions are accepted
My system:
windows 7 ultimate 64-bit
Driver 13-4 (latest at time of writing)
8GB RAM
AMD CPU 8-core 3.6GHZ
Now my previous cards all ran fine at about 70 degrees. but as soon as this card hits it, according to the driver monitor at least, my PC dies
So let me go into a bit more detail.
This morning, 12 July 2013, I got the new card. I put it in booted up, installed driver, rebooted, all is fine.
In starcraft 2 everything ran on max just fine.
In Bioshock infinite however there was a problem.
My nose picked up a strange scent and about after 5 minutes my PC just turned off. Off completely. no fans no LEDs no nothing.
I turned up the speed of the fan that blows directly onto my graphics card. Again, after about 5 minutes, the system turns off.
The weird thing is. I kept alt tabbing into the driver window and the card's temperature only read 67 degrees, and I'm amusing it might have hit 70. but there is nothing I can use to see that.
Could it perhaps be a heating issue? Because when I touch the card with my finger it's quite hot.
What about power supply?
anyone know of a tool to measure my graphics card's power consumption?
I'm running a 500W supply. I have a 6-pin plugged in. and under the 8-pin port, I have a 6 pin with the plus 2 from a extra cable connected to the power supply.
I've tried looking for a bigger power supply with a 8 pin port but found nothing.
only things I've found are
Raidmax RX 850AE
http://www.raidmax.com/psu/rx_850ae.html
and a Xigmatek 700W
(only link I can find for it)
http://www.lelong.com.my/xigmatek-power-supply-tauro-700w-xtk-tb-0700b-castleit-K1338622-2007-01-Sale-I.htm
any opinions are accepted
My system:
windows 7 ultimate 64-bit
Driver 13-4 (latest at time of writing)
8GB RAM
AMD CPU 8-core 3.6GHZ
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