x1950 pro 512mb agp failure

[VI3L]

I ordered a Diamond 1950 pro from newegg and I used it for about a month, then it died.
I had severe artifacts in the infamous shape of a checkerboard after gaming for a few hours. The temps were never really high, usually 53c full load and 40 idle.
I've read many different reviews and forum posts about this card and i am curious to see if its just my power supply.
I have an Ultra x connect 500 watt PSU, which has 34A on a single +12V... which is above the minimum requirements for this video card.
Is 500 watts just not enough for my system, or is it my 34A on my 12V? So far from what I've read the main fix for the beastly video cards is a stronger PSU. What do you guys think?!
Also in the system requirements for this card, it says " A CPU running 2.4 ghz or higher." Could my 3500+ at 2.21 ghz be considered a "problem"?

Here is the link to my power supply

http://hi-techreviews.com/reviews/xconnect/xconnect_P1.htm

You can see my system specs in my sig, thx guys!

 

[will889]

If you have the older X-Connect it's probably around 80% efficiency under load and you probably have more like 430 watts as compared to a high quality PSU, and around 25-30a true on the +12V, which is very marginal for that video card drawing around 280-310 watts under load. Could have been a bad card though, or it could have been both a marginal card and or marginal power that gave you issues.

When specs indicate 2.4 Ghz as a measure they usually mean 2.4 as in Intel @ 2.4 -- to which AMD at those times were equivalent at around 1.83-2.1 9 (XP2000-2400) Ghz. But from my experience anything above an AXP3200+ to an A643200+ or P4 3.0C and everything above that would be fine with the X1950 Pro. EG you're just fine with an A64 3500+

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: VI3L
I ordered a Diamond 1950 pro from newegg and I used it for about a month, then it died.
I had severe artifacts in the infamous shape of a checkerboard after gaming for a few hours. The temps were never really high, usually 53c full load and 40 idle.
I've read many different reviews and forum posts about this card and i am curious to see if its just my power supply.
I have an Ultra x connect 500 watt PSU, which has 34A on a single +12V... which is above the minimum requirements for this video card.
Is 500 watts just not enough for my system, or is it my 34A on my 12V? So far from what I've read the main fix for the beastly video cards is a stronger PSU. What do you guys think?!
Also in the system requirements for this card, it says " A CPU running 2.4 ghz or higher." Could my 3500+ at 2.21 ghz be considered a "problem"?

Here is the link to my power supply

http://hi-techreviews.com/reviews/xconnect/xconnect_P1.htm

You can see my system specs in my sig, thx guys!

Your power supply should be more than adequate for a x1950 pro because I am running my Connect3D x1950 Pro pcie with a Qtec 400watt power supply. Do you know if the AGP version of the x1950 Pro is much more power hungry than the pcie version?

Here are my other specs:-

asrock 939 dual sata2
athlon64 3500 venice 2.2ghz
connect x1950 pro pcie
2 x 512mb geil pc3200 memory (dual channel)
samsung spinpoint p80sd 160gb using sata2
liteon combo dvd/cdw
qtec dual fan 400w power supply

 

[KutterMax]

Keep in mind that the failure rates, based on the responces on a lot of forums, seems to be very high on the x1950 AGP cards. I RMA'd the one I bought.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: VI3L
I ordered a Diamond 1950 pro from newegg and I used it for about a month, then it died.
I had severe artifacts in the infamous shape of a checkerboard after gaming for a few hours. The temps were never really high, usually 53c full load and 40 idle.
I've read many different reviews and forum posts about this card and i am curious to see if its just my power supply.
I have an Ultra x connect 500 watt PSU, which has 34A on a single +12V... which is above the minimum requirements for this video card.
Is 500 watts just not enough for my system, or is it my 34A on my 12V? So far from what I've read the main fix for the beastly video cards is a stronger PSU. What do you guys think?!
Also in the system requirements for this card, it says " A CPU running 2.4 ghz or higher." Could my 3500+ at 2.21 ghz be considered a "problem"?

Here is the link to my power supply

http://hi-techreviews.com/reviews/xconnect/xconnect_P1.htm

You can see my system specs in my sig, thx guys!

My moneys on the card being bad. Thats sucks.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: KutterMax
Keep in mind that the failure rates, based on the responces on a lot of forums, seems to be very high on the x1950 AGP cards. I RMA'd the one I bought.

i *think* the first batch of x1950p had a super-high defective rate ... from looking at Sapphire's forum when mine broke on Day 31 ... looking *now* ... their forums are a LOT more quiet than a month ago.

your PS IS sufficient ... assuming it meets it's spec

mine was marginal ... 480w with 18a on the 12v rail so i upgraded ... just to be "sure"

... to 850w OCZ ! ... $185 after MIR at the 'Egg
:Q

it's for my SLI upgrade NEXT year ... and my just returned-from-RMA works fine
just the first batch, i hope


You are LUCKY you bought it from NewEgg .. they exchange it for a full year ... i got mine at ZZF and i had to beg to get them to exchange it a day after their 30 day period

just 'RMA it