i bought a dell off a hot deal a while back here
upgraded it with an XFX 9600GT video card
it has a tiny dell power supply, but ive found that dell and hp powersupplies always perform above their rating and that video cards always require above what they ask for. and the 9600 isnt a super high end card...
anyway, the card and computer ran great for a while. i ran current games at high res and detail. then suddenly out of nowhere performance died and i had to drop res and detail way way lower
i ignored it for a while because i dont play games much.
recently, i decided to update my nvidia drivers and now nvidia tells me that my card is not receiving enough power and i need to plug in the auxillary power plug
i had never plugged the extra power in!!
it said the card was running in reduced performance mode, and suddenly everything made sense. but now i have these questions:
1. why did the card run fine at first? (does the PCI bus share power with the PCI Express bus? if so that might make sense as i installed a wireless card later and that might coincide with the drop in performance)
2. the warning said something about possible damage to the card, but seems like dumbness to me. can undervolting a card cause damage to it? (its been like this for 6 months)
3. is there any utility that lets me check how much power the card is currently getting?
upgraded it with an XFX 9600GT video card
it has a tiny dell power supply, but ive found that dell and hp powersupplies always perform above their rating and that video cards always require above what they ask for. and the 9600 isnt a super high end card...
anyway, the card and computer ran great for a while. i ran current games at high res and detail. then suddenly out of nowhere performance died and i had to drop res and detail way way lower
i ignored it for a while because i dont play games much.
recently, i decided to update my nvidia drivers and now nvidia tells me that my card is not receiving enough power and i need to plug in the auxillary power plug
i had never plugged the extra power in!!
it said the card was running in reduced performance mode, and suddenly everything made sense. but now i have these questions:
1. why did the card run fine at first? (does the PCI bus share power with the PCI Express bus? if so that might make sense as i installed a wireless card later and that might coincide with the drop in performance)
2. the warning said something about possible damage to the card, but seems like dumbness to me. can undervolting a card cause damage to it? (its been like this for 6 months)
3. is there any utility that lets me check how much power the card is currently getting?
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