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Nvidia gtx670 problem

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March 25, 2014 2:14:52 PM

Hi all i have recently decided buy pc to edit my gopro videos as my laptop was struggling so order this MEDION AKOYA P2306 DR PC (B-Stock) Intel ® Core ™ i3 3220 processor, Win 8, GeForce ® GTX650 graphics, 2TB HDD, 4GB RAM,WiFi, USB 3.0 + 12 month warranty for £265.95 got battlefield 4 which i could run ok at 1080p in low settings so decided to upgrade so i went for 8gb of vengance lp 1600 in dual channel which made an improvment in battlefield and just took delivery of a kfa2 670gtx 2gb ex oc edition. Now when i installed the card hooked up the 6pin pci express power cable and the molex to 8pin pci express cable and fired the computer up the card lit up and the fans began to spin but all i got was one long beep followed by two short beeps which kept looping now i know that the power supply is a basic 450w unit and what i am hoping is that one of you is going to tell me the board isnt getting the required power to start the pc up or is thry more to this
Cheers Winston

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March 25, 2014 2:33:40 PM

It would guess it's the PSU, generally your PSU should come stock with enough connectors for your setup, since you have to use a MOLEX to 6-pin it's probably a bit low on wattage.
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March 25, 2014 3:25:23 PM

According to that link you just posted, your power supply only has 20 Amps on the 12 volt line, which is really poor, and suggestive of it being a very old design. They recommend a minimum of a 500 Watt PSU for the 670, and while you can get away with a lower wattage if it's a good quality PSU, yours is sadly not, so you definitely need to replace your PSU if you want to use that graphics card.

Hopefully that'll solve your problem.
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March 25, 2014 11:33:21 PM

Ok brilliant thats what i was thinking so went ahead and ordered a corsair gs600 so fingers crossed that this will solve the problem
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March 26, 2014 1:05:18 AM

And if for some reason it doesn't, just head on back to here, and we'll see if we can offer more assistance :-)
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