Gaming problem

1) Remove the old PSU.

2) Install the new PSU and fasten the screws tightly.

3) Connect everything using the following picture:

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I'm not sure about all this. It's kind of silly that they wouldn't include anything like this with the card. I so wanted it for new year's eve! Fuckcock!
 
Briosafreak said:
The fact you have a Dell really sucks, because they are hard to upgrade.
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just sucks in general tbh :p

Briosafreak said:
But for amazing speed and picture quality you really, really need a 350/400w power supply
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350 ok, but 400W? nah overkill for his generation PC. unless you're going for bad/unstable PSUs... (a brandname doesnt always equal a stable and quality PSU btw)

Briosafreak said:
and an AGP 8x motherboard.
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been listening to the marketing department too much have you?

agp 8x is nothing more than a fancy number. no card, may it be a 9800XT or a 6600GT, actually uses the extra bandwidth. the difference in performance between agp4x and agp8x is about 1%... when you know that benchmarks have a margin of error of about 5% (sometimes even 10%) you tend to discard that difference...

Baboon said:
I can hear the videocard fan working.
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of course you do, it draws power from the AGP slot as well

Baboon said:
can someone guide me through installation of a power supply?
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dont go buy a new one just yet...

Baboon said:
I only have one cord coming out of my HD.
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thats not what i meant :)

i meant a connector simular to the one running to your harddrive (not the flat cable but the powercable with a connector called 'a molex connector'. i dont believe you have SATA connectors due to the generation of your PC)
anyhow, as ratty posted, a molex is a kind of rather flat connector with 4 wires in a row. (your PSU probably has only one other connector with 4 wires, but those are in a square and are probably already plugged into your mobo)
now if you can't find a free molex, even with Ratty's pic, you probably already used up all your molex connectors. temporarily remove one from your CD-ROM drive for testing.

connect it here: (dont force it too much, it will only fit one way!)

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now if the problem is still there after this, you might want to loan a PSU from a friend & do some tests with that. (this is where having friends that are into hardware come in handy :p )

PS: try to never touch the cooler on your card. most 6600GT coolers have a rather bad way of connecting the cooler to the card. it is usually pretty unstable...
 
Well thanks a million for the help. All the hardware stores are probably closed tomorrow with new year's eve and all, but I'll just try with the molex for my CD burner, as I don't really need right now. I'll keep you posted (ehe...)
 
SuAside said:
(yes double post but i wanted to be sure he would see this...)

seems like their current driver causes some trouble as well. they released a beta driver to take care of that:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_67.03.html

(hehe not so long ago someone on this forum said ati sucked because of their drivers... the irony :p )
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When two largest graphics chip manufacturers have sucky drivers, that's a reason to weep, not a reason to gloat. :(
 
Ah, well there were a couple of free molexes in the PC already, unfortunately they were too far away from the card. So I unplugged the one to the HD and connected it to the video card, putting another molex on the HD. I'm probably going to buy a new molex soon though, because it was pretty tight and I'm afraid the wires will detach. Meh.

That totally fixed the problem, I can run Doom 3 and Half life 2 on high settings without any flaws, and after cleaning up the computer from adware and spyware, they should run perfectly.

Thanks a billion everyone, especially suaside and ratty. Thanks! You saved new year's eve for me.
 
Baboon said:
And Ratty, as I've already said, I'm not spending any more money. The Geforce 6600GT doesn't need an external power supply, there would've been a slot for it.
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Ha. Ha. Ha. :wink:
 
strange though...

all cards of that generation should give a clear message at boot & at initialising of a 3d activity when power is low.

i'm wondering if this is an XFX problem or for all 6600GTs out there...

I R Baboon said:
I'm probably going to buy a new molex soon though
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what do you mean? one cannot buy "a new molex". you mean a lil' extension cable or a splitter i suppose? shouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars...
 
Yeah that's what I meant. an extender. It's too tight in there, a cable might break.
 
it was a good thing my new radeon came with a y-connector. i would probably have had to have ordered one over the internet, which i hate doing.
 
SuAside said:
Briosafreak said:
The fact you have a Dell really sucks, because they are hard to upgrade.
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just sucks in general tbh :p
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I have to believe on your word for that, since i only buy white brand machines that are assembled by some long time friends with parts chosen by me, never understood the need to buy computers with a premium caused by branding myself


350 ok, but 400W? nah overkill for his generation PC. unless you're going for bad/unstable PSUs... (a brandname doesnt always equal a stable and quality PSU btw)
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If things are working now he probably won´t need it, but in the next upgrade a good motherboard with a 400 power supply is the best route to go, you know how power hungry things are getting these days

been listening to the marketing department too much have you?

agp 8x is nothing more than a fancy number. no card, may it be a 9800XT or a 6600GT, actually uses the extra bandwidth. the difference in performance between agp4x and agp8x is about 1%... when you know that benchmarks have a margin of error of about 5% (sometimes even 10%) you tend to discard that difference...
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No i haven`t, i own an agp4x motherboard. But you`ll see the diference when the next generation of graphical engines starts to land on the PC, just watch the high res Unreal3 techdemos or the equivalent ones and some extra bandwith will make the diference. It `s time to think about the future, christhmas 2005 will be a lot more demading than what you are used to.
 
Briosafreak said:
350 ok, but 400W? nah overkill for his generation PC. unless you're going for bad/unstable PSUs... (a brandname doesnt always equal a stable and quality PSU btw)
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If things are working now he probably won´t need it, but in the next upgrade a good motherboard with a 400 power supply is the best route to go, you know how power hungry things are getting these days
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hopefully by the time he thinks about upgrading a lot will have changed. (BTX for example, and if not BTX then advanced casedesign which place the PSU elsewhere. also the motherboard plugs are starting to change, although now one can still use an adapter.)

Briosafreak said:
been listening to the marketing department too much have you?
agp 8x is nothing more than a fancy number. no card, may it be a 9800XT or a 6600GT, actually uses the extra bandwidth. the difference in performance between agp4x and agp8x is about 1%... when you know that benchmarks have a margin of error of about 5% (sometimes even 10%) you tend to discard that difference...
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No i haven`t, i own an agp4x motherboard. But you`ll see the diference when the next generation of graphical engines starts to land on the PC, just watch the high res Unreal3 techdemos or the equivalent ones and some extra bandwith will make the diference. It `s time to think about the future, christhmas 2005 will be a lot more demading than what you are used to.
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i sincerely hope that if he would upgrade @ Xmas 2005, that he would switch to PCI-E instead of AGP... it'll be a dying breed by then.

there will be few AGP based cards released in the future.
 
My pci express system is arriving in a week or so. I'll let you know how it runs. :rule:
 
I just put mine together a couple of nights ago.

Here the spec's:

ASUS A8N-SLI
AMD 64 3500+ (90nm version)
1 Gb OCZ Dual Channel DDR
Lian Li V1100 Case
Thermalright XP-120
BFG 6800 GT OC w/256Mb DDR3
AeroCool Gatewatch

Maxtor 200GB SATA drive

This thing is going to rock.
 
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