card should be on a power plug by itself, I have the same PSU and  had little 
problems until I isolated the power to the card.

may be heat.

At 12:48 PM 7/8/2006, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with:

>Hi all, 
>
>I finally got and installed my 7800GS AGP video card.  With the benchmarks 
>below, there was some beautiful graphics.  I was amazed.
>
>Compared to my TI 4200, this thing flies.  My 3dmark 03 scores went from 1700 
>to 13097.  For completeness, my 3smark 2005 score is 5561 and 06 is 2893.  
>Aquamark before was 16272, after 61484.  Not too bad of a jump.  LOL.
>
>Now, my question.  
>
>In MS Combat FS 3, I will be playing and then lose video after about 2-3 
>minutes.  And the sound starts looping.  I have to reset the machine to get it 
>back.  The same thing happened with another game (can't remember which game 
>now).  It plays Quake III fine.
>
>I have an Antec Truepower 480 watt PS.  I have 4 HDs, 4 case fans, 1 floppy, 
>and 2 DVD burners.  The 12V lead connected to the 7800GS was connected to a 
>120MM fan and the two DVD drives.  I disconnected the 120mm fan and the card 
>still did the same thing in CFS 3.
>
>My first thought is that the card is not getting enough power.  What do you 
>all think?  Think I need to upgrade the PS? 
>
>Without a game running, the APC monitor shows a draw of about 250-270 watts. 
>
>Thanks, 
>Bobby 

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