New System Crashed while running NS2, Not starting up.

epsilan47

Ya, the graphics card box has a MINIMUM 500W power supply requirement so it probably isn't enough.

IronHorse

<!--quoteo(post=1838527:date=Mar 23 2011, 12:29 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thaldarin @ Mar 23 2011, 12:29 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1838527"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I always advise people to have a 200W gap, why? Power fluctuations in the home can produce spikes which you can't actually cater for and general PSU spikes are consider in the 50W-100W region. So it's nice to give yourself headroom, knowing that any minor problem with electrics won't kill anything on your computer.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


exactly where i was going with my 700W estimation that somebody disregarded.. (::beady eyes stare at koruyo::))

epsilan47

Could power supplies throttle graphics cards? Because I usually run with a tiny overclock of 775, 1125 and whenever I play NS2 the activity never goes above 25% as if it's hardly being used while my FPS is also seemingly low (always around 30 on Rockdown). Also, there are spikes of GPU activity where it goes up to 50% max, then I start to get 50-60 fps yet it's in the same place with just as much load?