YotaTech Forums - View Single Post - video card pulling too much power from supply, causing a crash?

Lumpy · 06-26-2009, 08:43 AM

first off get the correct drivers from GForce, not windows updates!!!

I had a machine that was eating video cards then the mobo went. I called Dell about it and they said the factory power supply was too small to power the video card and the fan that was on it. They replaced the MoBo and I upgraded to a 550 or 750 don't rightly remember but after that I was good. Shortly there after I went to a card without a fan, didn't want to take a chance. I'm also running 2 sata drives and 2 IDE drives and 1 burner. the case fan, CPU fan and 1 fan in the desk to keep the whole think cool...so I did have a lot running...