PSU Question

[Uranium-235]

so after this thread:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16939

I got a new corsair 850TX

Lately, the burning has gotten worse (only when I play games). I take the connector out, push the sides of the 12v1's on the PSU connector together for a tighter grip, and to hopefully help 'scrape' some of whatever it is on that connector. Which usually works, the wire dosen't get as burning hot as it did playing games before, for a few days anyways

but today wierd things started to happen. One thing that happened before but not many times is win7 would startup and each video card would be "could not start cause the device reported an error", I restart once and that usually cleans it up, but now, it did it 3x times in a row, till I did whats mentioned above, and it worked

I'm playing New Vegas and I am starting to constantly get "Driver stopped responding, but has recovered" message. Something I only got a few times in firefox when flash activity causes the hardware acceleration to go on the fritz, but I never got it during a GAME

then after some research I realized 12V1 'powers everything but the CPU'. I know my video cards have 2x6 pin each, but I bet there are some power circuts that draw it from PCI-express on each card. (I have 2). One thing I also notice is every time I play that PSU pushed some REALLY hot air out. Is my system too strong for this PSU?

neweggs 'power supply selector' says 1200, but I figure they're padding the hell out of it to try and sell the higher shit

Asus P6T Deluxe V2
2x XFX GTX 285 factory OC
2x WD velociraptors
2x WD Re3's

[ratdude747]

Re: PSU Question

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

try that.

[Uranium-235]

Re: PSU Question

well 725

of course there is no option for factor OC'd video cards, and these were some of the highest OC'd video cards out there

I knew newegg was lying

[c_hegge]

Re: PSU Question

If you're PSU isn't shutting down, then you're not overloading it - you're just pulling too much from the ATX connector for the wires to handle, and that will happen regardless of what PSU you use. this is why I don't like single rail units - because this kind of thing will just burn up the connector as opposed to tripping the OCP. In any case, though, I think you're problem is with the motherboard. Good luck trying to get ASUS to honor the warranty, though

[Uranium-235]

Re: PSU Question

well I just fixed it, using the oldest and usually most effective trick in the book, I removed the old driver completly, and installed the latest one

just played new vegas for 30 mins straight no problems

[c_hegge]

Re: PSU Question

You still need to fix the burning connector issue.

[Uranium-235]

Re: PSU Question

I know, and I did think of one of those extentions, but I want a shorter one, maybe 3"

oh well, its not hot now, hasn't been all day