Do I have a PSU overload?

semperfidelis · Aug 16, 2013

Hi,

While playing battlefield 3 I noticed the colors on my screen were turning purple. This problem does not present itself when i disable crossfire.
This started the other day when I got 2 new harddrives and a new cooler for one of the GPU's.

Is this due to a PSU overload?
Any other possible causes?
How can I test this?

My system:

CPU: i7-2600k@4.5GHZ
Cooler: Thermaltake water 2.0 extreme
Mobo: Asrock fatal1ty professional
Memory: 2 x 4GB GSkill Ripjaw 1366MHz
GPU: Asus DirectCII HD6970
Sapphire HD6970 (cooler: arctic cooler Xtreme III)
Sound: Soundblaster Fatal1ty professional
Hard drives: 3 x 1TB 7500rpm
SSD's: 128 GB Samsung
90 GB OCZ Vertex 3
Optical: 2 x DVD-RW
Fan's: 4 x LED 120mm
1 x LED 92mm

PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 900W

Is the PSU the problem? Or is something else causing this.
I did not had these problems in the past while running this setup (minus the arctic cooler, 1 TB hd and the 128 GB SSD).

My system is almost two years old. And I do use it a lot. I just invested in that cooler cause I hoped i could go at least another year with this GPU.

Thank you for your help.

nvalhalla · Aug 16, 2013

Disconnect everything you dont need and try it with crossfire again.

Wolf Tfk · Aug 16, 2013

semperfidelis :

Hi,

While playing battlefield 3 I noticed the colors on my screen were turning purple. This problem does not present itself when i disable crossfire.
This started the other day when I got 2 new harddrives and a new cooler for one of the GPU's.

Is this due to a PSU overload?
Any other possible causes?
How can I test this?

My system:

CPU: i7-2600k@4.5GHZ
Cooler: Thermaltake water 2.0 extreme
Mobo: Asrock fatal1ty professional
Memory: 2 x 4GB GSkill Ripjaw 1366MHz
GPU: Asus DirectCII HD6970
Sapphire HD6970 (cooler: arctic cooler Xtreme III)
Sound: Soundblaster Fatal1ty professional
Hard drives: 3 x 1TB 7500rpm
SSD's: 128 GB Samsung
90 GB OCZ Vertex 3
Optical: 2 x DVD-RW
Fan's: 4 x LED 120mm
1 x LED 92mm

PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 900W

Is the PSU the problem? Or is something else causing this.
I did not had these problems in the past while running this setup (minus the arctic cooler, 1 TB hd and the 128 GB SSD).

My system is almost two years old. And I do use it a lot. I just invested in that cooler cause I hoped i could go at least another year with this GPU.

Thank you for your help.

Its Gpu, do you have Warrenty?

semperfidelis · Aug 16, 2013

nvalhalla :

I will try that and report back.

semperfidelis · Aug 16, 2013

Wolf Tfk :

I am pretty sure it is not my GPU.
The cooler of the sapphire card was broken (made more noise than a jet engine).
So for the past 2 weeks I have been running only the asus card (the sapphire was not even connected).

And now I am using the sapphire as primary card and there is no problem with crossfire disabled. So I am pretty sure both cards work as they are supposed to.

animal · Aug 16, 2013

what are your GPU temps? individually and when in x-fire.

semperfidelis · Aug 16, 2013

animal :

Forgot to mention that:

I monitored them using MSI afterburner.
Temps: (full load for over 20 minutes; colors started showing up this morning)
Crossfire:
Primary: 70
Secondary: 56

Non crossfire:
primary: 65
Secondary 35

So this seems pretty much all right.

semperfidelis · Aug 16, 2013

Found the problem:

My crossfire bridge was not connecteg very good.

Sorry for the inconvenience

So it was the gpu.

xan8ter · Aug 16, 2013

NO, it's not your PSU, it's your GPU or your crossfire configuration.
I had the same problem in the past.
Try to unplug your GPU and redo your installation.
All will be fine, if problem persist, you have a GPU problem.
Contact manufacturer.

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