PSU causing 7600GT(AGP) artifacts in TF2/freezing in WoW?

I just got me a new 7600GT. I've clean installed the drivers a couple of times and I've tried both the regular nVidia drivers and the Omega drivers. Both give me artifacts in Team Fortress 2 and both freeze in WoW. I originally thought it was due to the power supply as I am running 3 HDs + 1 optical + 3 PCI devices. I've unplugged two of the HDs so now I'm down to 1HD + 1 optical + 3 PCI. The artifacts SEEM to be fewer in TF2 but they're definitely still there. I have a Fortron 400W PSU:
http://www.fsp-group.com.tw/englis [...] &proid=136
Video card:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreI [...] A8-N559-TR

And...I just realized the amps on the two +12V rail is 14A each which is 4A less than what EVGA recommends so I'm guessing it's because of this?

Can anyone recommend a budget PSU that will support my old setup of 3 HDs + 1 optical + 3 PCI devices?

Edit: I used to run the same setup but with a Radeon 9800PRO and, strangely enough, according to this thread:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums [...] c=7&t=9354
My old 9800PRO requires more power than the 7600GT? This whole PSU deal is confusing.

Edit: I'm looking at some thermaltake PSUs...many of the cheaper ones have good amperage on the +12V rails. Are these PSUs reliable?
Another one that I can definitely afford is the 500W OCZ StealthXStream. According to the website there are two +12V rails each providing 18A which is the requirement for the 7600GT. Is this PSU good enough? reliable?

nono, not rosewill. i just used it for 3 months, it is burnt, took my onboard, sound, my mobo, does not reconize, USB devices, trying to refund it, and get fixed my board
its performance series, RP 550-2 550W for 70$, it has 5 star, on newegg (about 300users) but mine sucked

Unless you're upgrading anytime soon, get an Antec Earthwatts 380w or 430w.

LOL, your card will at most draw 20-40w. Those recommendations are as useful as a pile of turd.

If you have a 400 watt power supply now, going with a 380w or a 430w is not going to do it for ya. Might as well just keep what you have now. And its possible your p4 is bottlenecking your card and thats why you are seeing articfacts. But i would definetly upgrade to 500 watts or so, future proof yourself, if you decide to go with a new build next year, uneless your running some crazy insane setup, this power suppy will slide right into your new build, and you will have saved yourself some money.

That's what I was thinking too...get the 500W and use it in a future rig. I used to run TF2 with this processor and got playable framerates (20-30s)..can this really cause artifacts?

jbj190: I can run Warcraft 3 just fine...WoW boots without artifacts but freezes up my whole system. So probably my PSU?

Well the +12V on speedfan is reading 11.49V. +3.3V reads 3.30V. +5V reads 5.03V. That +12V seems sketchy to me lol

lol blacksci...that's an idea...but it's a heck of a lot of time which will be hard to come by for me how do those voltages look though? the +12V rail seems a tad low no?

its more going to friends place and setting it up that takes a lot of time lol

My last upgrade was done at my mate's. He's building a PC with all my old parts! lol! Crate of beer, football on the TV, and 2 PCs in parts over the floor. Trick is to do most of the building during the first 2 pints (which will steady the hand if not the mind...)

Fortron is good brand. How old is it? Get a cheap DVM, onboard sensors can be inaccurate. Spec allows 5% from nominal, so if that reading is correct, supply would be suspect. That 18A on the 12V is total over both rails and is for the WHOLE system, so your 400W is fine. I have 7800GT and AMD 4200+ with 2 HDs on a Hiper 400W. When i run 3DMark06 max power from mains is 230W. Check temp of GPU as ovedrheating will give artifacts. If your 12V reading is OK with a DVM I would RMA the card as faulty.

Mike

If that's the actual reading, it means that the PSU is borked. Your PSU might have 12v rails with 14A each but combined, they can only output 18A.

Lol go back and get it again, yes you may feel a little foolish, but its an honest mistake, what i like to call the learning curve, lol, I feel partly to blame, as i forgot to mention you can detach the 4 pin for the 20 pin connectors, thats why i said your future proofing yourself for your next build. No biggie though dude. Ill give you a example of a great retard moment i experienced just the other day. I finally got around to installing my ipod on my comp, but had to enable file sharing with the g/f's comp to get my music which was stored there. When i restarted i got my splash screen, and then it just stayed there, no matter what i did. Went to do some shopping and mulled the problem over in my mind, came home and a ingenious idea hit me, why dont i unplug my ipod and see what happens. And then there was boot, see gigabyte has q flash, that lets you flash your bios off of your usb flash card, snazzy feature. But since in essence a ipod is just a storage device, my mobo kept trying to read the information there in order to see if i wanted to flash or not, and since nothing was there for it, it just stayed on my post screen. We all have our stupid moments, just chalk it up to experience, lol.

^ check that. and check temps?

So I've got a new power supply but haven't had too much time to tinker with things. I've concluded it's NOT the power supply though cause the card still has heavy artifacting and tearing. I think it may be a overheating issue. It idles at ~55C and jumps to >80C when I game. I find when I do a fresh boot games run fine for 5-10minutes but then tearing starts so I'm guessing it's overheating. Is 80C running really hot for the card? Or could it be bad RAM?
I've contacted eVGA but clearly their customer service knows nothing about my card as he suggested I use Rivatuner to control the fan speed when my card does not have a fan controller...

Sounds like a dud 7600GT

FSP/Fortron PSU's are ok, wouldnt worry about the upgrade there.

My friend just had a similar problem with his FSP PSU... had it for almost 2 years and then started giving artifacts & various other problems, but he got new OCZ PSU and no problems since. (The 610w one... forget what it's called)