thedude400
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Just bought the card used from greedbay. The card works fine for general windows apps and even plays an 8gb 1080p movie file. But for some reason when I start my mmorpg game theres major problems, artifacts, and strange images on the screen. I can't even move the charcter. The whole computer basically becomes frozen. I'm generally suspicious of the power supply (though I've run a ATI 4850 on it just fine before) Here's my system.
Asus P5Q Pro
C2D E8400
4gb Gskill PC2-8000 RAM
Antec Earthwatts EA 500 - 500 Watt PSU
EVGA- eGeforce 8800GTS ssc edition
Fan is running fine on the card. I plugged in the power connector into the 8800 from the PSU. The card seems to be as secure in the slot as possible. Everything boots up beautifully but as soon as I go to game it's just an absolute disaster. I haven't switched PCI-E slots or fiddled with RAM configurations yet and I will right now, but I highly doubt That's the problem. Everything is running at stock with no overclocking.
Is my power supply suspect? The box says minimum requirements is to have 26 amps at least on the +12V rail. I'm reading the Antec specs and I don't really know how to find that information correctly. Any help is appreciated.
Asus P5Q Pro
C2D E8400
4gb Gskill PC2-8000 RAM
Antec Earthwatts EA 500 - 500 Watt PSU
EVGA- eGeforce 8800GTS ssc edition
Fan is running fine on the card. I plugged in the power connector into the 8800 from the PSU. The card seems to be as secure in the slot as possible. Everything boots up beautifully but as soon as I go to game it's just an absolute disaster. I haven't switched PCI-E slots or fiddled with RAM configurations yet and I will right now, but I highly doubt That's the problem. Everything is running at stock with no overclocking.
Is my power supply suspect? The box says minimum requirements is to have 26 amps at least on the +12V rail. I'm reading the Antec specs and I don't really know how to find that information correctly. Any help is appreciated.