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 -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- A good angle to approach any problem is the try-angle.
