Should I swap my Seasonic 500w with her 430w?

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Having problems with an eVGA 7800 GT. Pretty sure I just happened to get a bad GPU, but this system is running off of a 430w Seasonic S-12 PSU. I have a 600w & 500w in my system, and I was thinking about swapping the 500 & 430. It's a difference of 4 amps on the +12V rails, which isn't too bad.

//NOTE: This thread was previously titiled "Do you have a 7800 GT; What brand and size PSU do you have??"

 

[WT]

Enermax Noisetaker 485 .... you should be fine with that Seasonic.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i have 2

using a 500watt seasonic S12

you should be fine, the 7800GT are pretty frugal (in relation to GTX,X1800,X1900) when it comes to power.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Okay. Because I'm getting all kinds of artifacts on splash screens. Also, I can't install drivers at all. I've already contacted Newegg about getting an RMA. I did some searching, and supposedly, eVGA had a bad batch go out.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Okay. Because I'm getting all kinds of artifacts on splash screens. Also, I can't install drivers at all. I've already contacted Newegg about getting an RMA. I did some searching, and supposedly, eVGA had a bad batch go out.

yeah sounds like a bad card. though looking at your specs you have a lot of hard drives to power, though it also says u have a couple of PSU's too lol so i dunno

 

[christopherzombie]

Elements Zpower 500W w/ 26A on 12v
Rest of system in sig.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Okay. Because I'm getting all kinds of artifacts on splash screens. Also, I can't install drivers at all. I've already contacted Newegg about getting an RMA. I did some searching, and supposedly, eVGA had a bad batch go out.

yeah sounds like a bad card. though looking at your specs you have a lot of hard drives to power, though it also says u have a couple of PSU's too lol so i dunno

Oh, no. This is for the machine my wife built. I've got a 6800 GT OC in my machine. Just this new machine is giving us problems.

 

[VIAN]

Leadtek 7800 GT Extreme

480W Antec Neo Power

 

[keeleysam]

eVGA 7800GT 517

Antec 550W

 

[CP5670]

I have two EVGA 516s and an OCZ Modstream 520W (28A on 12V). The 7800 GTs don't consume all that much power.

 

[xtknight]

eVGA GeForce 7800GT (256-P2-N515-AX)
Antec NeoPower 480W (dual rail)

 

[Bobthelost]

XTX 7800GT (CO?) @ 500/1240
Seasonic s12 600W (massive overkill)

 

[Heretik]

eVGA 7800GT - 256-P2-N516-AX
Antec TP2-550 EPS12V

 

[christopherzombie]

Originally posted by: CP5670
I have two EVGA 516s and an OCZ Modstream 520W (28A on 12V). The 7800 GTs don't consume all that much power.

I was worried about "only" having a 500W w/ 26A PSU when I got my 2nd 7800GT. My 6800Ultra AGP forced me to upgrade my PSU. But my two 7800GTs don't use much more juice than my single 6800Ultra.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

The Geforce 7800Gt uses less power than the 6800Gt.

 

[christopherzombie]

Originally posted by: djmihow
The Geforce 7800Gt uses less power than the 6800Gt.

Yes it does use less. Check this out:

Anandtech 7800GT power consumption

2 x 7800GTs in SLI use less power than 1 6800Ultra (idle)! And only 22w more with a load.

 

[DeathReborn]

2x PNY 7800GT

Hiper Type-R 580W Modular PSU (Peak 630W)

+12V1 (20A)
+12V2 (18A)

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Edited for different question now. Thanks to all that originally replied.

 

[WT]

Where did you read that EVGA had a bad batch go out ? At least on the EVGA forums, you'd be hard pressed to find any techs admit to that ... bad PR is ... umm ... bad.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: WT
Where did you read that EVGA had a bad batch go out ? At least on the EVGA forums, you'd be hard pressed to find any techs admit to that ... bad PR is ... umm ... bad.

On ATF here, and the large amount of artifacting problems on their forums.

Here's the AT Video thread. Namely the post by Budarow on 22JAN06 @ 12:07 AM.