power problem

[SP]

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i have been getting a lot of power problems with the 5900xt. when ever i
play far cry it minimises and gives the error that not enough power is being
supplied. the thing is i have a 430W power unit and has only started
displaying this recntly. any ideas to get rid of this message?

sp

 

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cant see it being an hardware issue. it's likely that it's the graphics
card. my system is based on an XP3200 running 2 optical drives, 2
hard-drives and a 6800 graphics card all on a 300W PSU. the old one blew up
(550W) a couple of months ago and I had this one spare. there's also five
case fans keeping things cool.
so i cant think of what this issue would be but maybe an XT is being pushed
on your settings , perhaps you should set it lower and try again.

Robin

 

[SP]

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i found out why it is causing this problem. the power unit is fine its what
i have done with the rest of the system. I'm running an Abit IS7-E. In the
BIOS there is an option for a game accelerator and i have put it on the
fastest setting. This provides extra voltage to both the cpu and RAM making
them faster. the FSB at standard is 200.5MHz instead of 200MHz, so i get
7MHz more due to the multiplier (2.8GHz P4 multiplier is 14) and the voltage
adjusts to demanding tasks such as gaming. so i now know why the gfx card
complains about voltage. thanks for all of your help

sp