Possible lack of power causing jerk in games?

[Zal]

I have rescently installed a secondary HDD (250gb) since my 40 gig just wasnt sufficient. The new ide cable and drive layout looks like this:

Pri. master : 40 gig (C Pri. slave : dvdrom drive
Sec. master : 250 gig (D Sec. slave : cdrw drive

I am currently running an ati radeon 9800XT (i have a geforce 6800GT, but will not install until i format in 2 weeks, sinc i had driver issues)

My power supply is a superflower real 520W, quad fans, adjustable fan speeds, with 3 main power cables, two with 4x ide power connector + floppy connector, one with 4x ide power connector.

the wire layout goes a little like this:

- one wire powering primary hdd and dvdrom drive
- one wire powering secondary hdd and cdrw drive
- one wire powering radeon 9800XT, 2 case fans, and floppy.

Does this look like a good setup for even power distribution?

Some heavy load games jerk periodically in some places, and the demo "battle of proxycon" in 3dmark03 also stutters. I had this problem a while ago, before installing the new hdd, when i was only using 2 cables, one powering hdd and case fans and floppy, and the other powering the two cdrom drives, radeon 9800xt, and one case fan.

Do you think that the problem i am having now is similar? If so, any tips for remedying the problem? (possibly a new psu with more power?) :/

Thanks for your time

 

[Zal]

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[RichPLS]

Your PSU is adequate.

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[ChipDeath]

Insufficient Power will cause crashes and errors, it will never just reduce performance.

On thing I would suggest is to put the two HDDs on the primary channel (as master & slave), and the optical drives on the other channel. An UIDE channel will only ever run as fast as the slowest thing attached to it, and Optical drives are generally not as fast as HDDs.

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[xeenrecoil]

heya Zal;

Could i get ya to list your system specs, including the OS, perhaps we would have a better idea of what the problem is if we knew.

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[Zal]

System Specs:


Motherboard :
MSI K7N2 Delta (nforce2 ultra 400 chipset)

ram :
2x512mb ddr400 pc3200 kingston value ram
dual channel 333 mhz [166x2]

processor info:
Amd Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.17 ghz (166x13) - default
runs 41 degrees idle 45 with heavy load

gfx card :
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256mb
running at default clock speeds (ram and gpu NOT overclocked)
running latest catalyst drivers (6.14.10.6476 date 25/08/2004)

IDE drive layout:
PRI. MAS. : 40gb seagate 7.2k rpm(C
PRI. SLA. : cd-rw drive
SEC. MAS. : 250gb Maxtor 7.2k rpm(D
SEC. SLA. : dvd rom drive

PSU :
520 Watt Real Superflower
quad fans, adjustable fan speeds
12 IDE power connectors, 2 floppy power connectors

Power connection layout :
- cable 1 : one HDD and DVD-rom drive
- cable 2 : one HDD and CD-RW drive
- cable 3 : Radeon 9800XT, floppy drive and 2 case fans

OS: Windows XP Professional SP1

 

[davemar14]

Have you tried different video card drivers? Like said above, I doubt its a PSU issue. I would just reformat and slap that 6800GT in. You won't see the slowdown then

 

[Crashman]

If you're a jerk in games, a new power supply won't help, you need to take a teamwork program.

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[xeenrecoil]

ROFL!

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[priyajeet]

that was funny indeed ! :lol:

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[DonnieDarko]

A jerk in games could be because you have an o/ced processor and you may not have your vcore high enough. I had this problem many times. Try bumming your vcore up alittle bit and see if that helps.

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[georgebeee]

he said he's not OC'd

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[Zal]

Very funny Crashman.
You can ofcourse go **%! ^@£"£$^'@ ~#$""^
Shame it doesnt help

 

[Zoron]

Try bumming your vcore up

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