3 months ago my PSU gave up on life... so I had to claim an exchange of PSU.. now that I have my PSU (replaced with new - same one) back when I plug in my R6870 hawk GPU my pc wont start.. it wont even get to boot it just lights up and does nothing... no *beep* or anything. When I switched my gpu to low end one (x550 ati old trash). It has no problem turning on? Could my r6870 hawk be faulty? pls help
My PC wont start when I plug in my R6870 GPU
- Thread starter Renokami
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power shouldnt be problem, this exact build aws working fine for 8 months.. then my pc started crashing so I assumed PSU would be the proble I claimed warranty. blah, blah got new one (exact same psu) and now when I try to turn it on it just doesnt. My psu has 520W
renz496
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6870 and X550 have huge difference in power consumption. x550 will top at 75w while 6870 can exceed 150w since the card need two 6 pin PCI-E power connector. 520w should be enough but if yours is low quality one the actual rate might be lower than that. it might work at first but after a long period of time the PSU might having trouble because constantly push to it's limit
Yea.. but I mean like... I had R6870 before.. now I have x550 cuz my R6870 just stagnates. As in: I have 520 W PSU, my GPU has in its info min. req. PSU: 500W max. consump. 150 or so.. The R6870 build was ok for 8 months now it looks like when my PSU burned out it also took my GPU... And thats what I would like to know... if my GPU R6870 could be done for or is it again the PSU (which was replaced with new one exact same 520 W psu.. and I dont believe I could get 2 faulty psu's one after another -.-)
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