Does the 4850 requires PCIE 2.0?

[GaiaHunter]

Not sure if this should be here or on the motherboard section, so feel free to move.

Ok my friend recently started to having some crashing problems when playing Guild Wars.

Those problems didn't happened while playing Warcraft 3.

My friend computer is a packard bell IMEDIA 2770, E6400, awfull Cuba (MSI MS-7301) Motherboard with VIA PT890 Northbridge / VIA VT8237A Southbridge chipset.

Anyway my friend told me her X1600 seemed a bit damaged, that the fan was dropping and so on and she wanted a better graphics card anyway, after seeing what GW looked like with a Phenom II 955 paired with a 4890.

So I told her to get a 4850 and a better PSU, so she got a XFX 4850 and an OCZ sthealth silent 500W PSU.

Problem is this card keeps crashing on GW. Then sometimes the PC wont startup for a few minutes.

I told her to test the 4850 on her newer PC and it works fine.

Any ideas? Is it because that motherboard doesn't have PCIE 2.0? Problems with OS? GW problem (although she started having problems with it a few days ago with a X1600 and I play GW with a 4850 with no problems)?

 

[yh125d]

You can use a pci-e 2.0 card in a pci-e 1.0 motherboard just fine, and vice versa. Run a temp monitor like HWmonitor, game in GW for a few mins then minimize and see what it says in the "max" column for GPU core. 4850's run fairly hot, and That case probably doesn't have great airflow.

 

[GaiaHunter]

The XFX one is a dual slot cooler, but I'll do.

I know that the temperatures while she gamed with the 4850 on her new pc was around 64ºC but that is an anteac 900 case...

I also know that her E6400 was quite cool (40-42ºC or so after playing) when she first started having crashes problem while still having the X1600.

I thought as so for the PCIE 2.0. Thanks.

 

[wiak]

try changing power meybe use a molex to pcie power cable