Hi, I recently bought an 8800 Ultra Extreme,
I had a low PSU (580W) and was advised to upgrade, so yesterday I bought a 650W Zephyr PSU + Gigabyte 3d Galaxy2 liquid cooling system.
I connected everything (including the 2 power 6 pin into the card) but in my motherboard I have a PCI_E (4 pin) power to be connected to that gives extra power to the card,
I have a Gigabyte M59-SLI-S5 mobo.
so it stayed up for about 4 hours yesterday, (testing games, and using the pc) without connecting that 4 pin power, I noticed lower FPS, but temps were more than fine..
Until now I realized the 4 pin power for the PCI_E onboard is not connected, so I connected it.
now the FPS is back to normal, temps are still very normal, but i'm worried there might be something damaged with the card?
I tested a few games and its fine, but i'm just worried. cus I have my 7950 GX2 artifacted, not sure why tho.
Right now temps are 66C idle 74C on load.
Please tell me that the card will be fine...
Thanks
I had a low PSU (580W) and was advised to upgrade, so yesterday I bought a 650W Zephyr PSU + Gigabyte 3d Galaxy2 liquid cooling system.
I connected everything (including the 2 power 6 pin into the card) but in my motherboard I have a PCI_E (4 pin) power to be connected to that gives extra power to the card,
I have a Gigabyte M59-SLI-S5 mobo.
so it stayed up for about 4 hours yesterday, (testing games, and using the pc) without connecting that 4 pin power, I noticed lower FPS, but temps were more than fine..
Until now I realized the 4 pin power for the PCI_E onboard is not connected, so I connected it.
now the FPS is back to normal, temps are still very normal, but i'm worried there might be something damaged with the card?
I tested a few games and its fine, but i'm just worried. cus I have my 7950 GX2 artifacted, not sure why tho.
Right now temps are 66C idle 74C on load.
Please tell me that the card will be fine...
Thanks