Radeon hd 4670 power requirement

[hirajhil]

Hi I am using radeon hd 4670 for couple of years. I am facing a problem frequently. Whenever I play graphics intensive game, it plays smooth but in a certain point the program and system crashes. Sometimes it recovers and shows display driver stopped responding. I have tried many workouts, nothing succeeded. I think this is a power problem. I have a thermaltake 400W NP PSU, with 12v1 14A and 12v2 16A current rating and combined 12v 19A rating. Is it enough to run it?

 

[haider95]

Most likely not a PSU problem. It's likely to be a driver problem or the graphic card itself is dying.. sorry

 

[hirajhil]

Most likely not a PSU problem. It's likely to be a driver problem or the graphic card itself is dying.. sorry

Hi, the problem is occurring from the time of the purchase of the card. I tried everything except trying another CPU. I googled but did not find any exact power requirements for this card.

 

[haider95]

The HD4670 barely consumes any power at all. I have an equivalent 9600GSO and i was running it on a 250w PSU before buying my current PSU yet it was performing great. Your thermaltake PSU is more than adequate for this GPU as its not power consuming at all. It recommends a 400w PSU from what i know.. Try un-installing all drivers then installing the latest ones

 

[hirajhil]

The HD4670 barely consumes any power at all. I have an equivalent 9600GSO and i was running it on a 250w PSU before buying my current PSU yet it was performing great. Your thermaltake PSU is more than adequate for this GPU as its not power consuming at all. It recommends a 400w PSU from what i know.. Try un-installing all drivers then installing the latest ones

well my driver is always up to date. I tried many measures, like downgrading the core clock, updating registry to increase tdr value, etc. Only options left is replacing the CPU, thats why wanted to know the parameters of electrical current.

 

[haider95]

I dont mean to sound rude but what the hell does the CPU have anything to do with the graphics card? From what i know (and i know a lot) nothing cpu related can cause driver crashes. You probably have messed with the registry and kind of sounds like your GPU is overheating. Install MSI afterburner and report the temperatures at which it crashes

 

[hirajhil]

I dont mean to sound rude but what the hell does the CPU have anything to do with the graphics card? From what i know (and i know a lot) nothing cpu related can cause driver crashes. You probably have messed with the registry and kind of sounds like your GPU is overheating. Install MSI afterburner and report the temperatures at which it crashes

sorry i meant PSU, not CPU, it was a instant typo. I modified the registry to change the tdr, so that the wait for the graphics card becomes a little bit longer.

 

[haider95]

Do as i said. Install MSI afterburner and report back the termperatures at which your drivers crash

 

[hirajhil]

Do as i said. Install MSI afterburner and report back the termperatures at which your drivers crash

i tried to measure the temp and gpu usage, the temp was 55 c and gpu usage was 95% at the time of crash. And one thing i missed to mention is that, if i play the games in windows mode, even in full resolution the problem does not occur, and if it says display driver stooped responding it can at-least recover, unlike the full screen mode when it just freezes.

 

[haider95]

Sounds like a driver conflict issue if you ask me. I get the same problem on my 9600GSO and i lately fixed it with a clean driver installation. Restart computer in safe mode.. un-install all drivers.. Restart in safe mode again and install all drivers.. Restart and test

 

[hirajhil]

Sounds like a driver conflict issue if you ask me. I get the same problem on my 9600GSO and i lately fixed it with a clean driver installation. Restart computer in safe mode.. un-install all drivers.. Restart in safe mode again and install all drivers.. Restart and test

I tried all you mentioned, I even changed my power supply to a thermaltek 750W bronze grade PSU. No luck. I will try to upgrade my OS to windows 8 64 bit as I can get a free version as a cs student. But now I am convinced that it might be a problem of my graphics card.

 

[haider95]

If the card is more than 2 years old then im sorry my friend. It's dying.. also no offense but you just wasted your money on that PSU... which is 400w more than your system actually consumes. You could have just spend that money on a new GPU like the HD6570. But personally i wouldn't recommend anything less than a GTX660 or HD7850 now that you have that power supply -_- but if you want something cheap get the HD7770

 

[hirajhil]

If the card is more than 2 years old then im sorry my friend. It's dying.. also no offense but you just wasted your money on that PSU... which is 400w more than your system actually consumes. You could have just spend that money on a new GPU like the HD6570. But personally i wouldn't recommend anything less than a GTX660 or HD7850 now that you have that power supply -_- but if you want something cheap get the HD7770

I received the card faulty I guess, becasue it was happening right from the day of purchase. I played some games with that card but all time with the fear that the game is crashing.

I bought the PSU because i am planning on to buy new card, I am looking for either Nvidia GTX 660 Ti or Radeon HD 7870. People say 660 Ti is slightly better, but HD 7870 is at least 50$ less than that.

 

[haider95]

what are your system specs? You can post a new thread so we can help you find the best gpu for the money and your system!

 

[hirajhil]

what are your system specs? You can post a new thread so we can help you find the best gpu for the money and your system!

Hi I changed my graphics card to GTX 660 Ti, but the problem did not solve. Finally I changed my RAM from 4 (2x2) to 8 (2x4) GB with different ram sticks. Now the problem is completely gone! I never thought that RAM could be the reason. Can you explain me what is the relation between display and ram?

 

[haider95]

what are your system specs? You can post a new thread so we can help you find the best gpu for the money and your system!

Hi I changed my graphics card to GTX 660 Ti, but the problem did not solve. Finally I changed my RAM from 4 (2x2) to 8 (2x4) GB with different ram sticks. Now the problem is completely gone! I never thought that RAM could be the reason. Can you explain me what is the relation between display and ram?

Ugh i can't believe why i never thought of that. The GPU feeds data to the CPU which runs in correlation with your system memory. Well at least you now have a good GPU