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this sucks (hardware failure)
jimonions:
That sounds like a completely different story from what I was told.
Here "were" my stats:
Windows 7
AMD Phenom(tm) 2 X4 830 Processor 2.80GHz
16gb RAM
CX600 Corsair
Radeon HD 7970 1gb core clocked to 1000 MHz (which says needs a power requirement of 550 watts)
Sound Card
750gb HDD
I was thinking about just salvaging the fan and discarding the rest.
I really needed the power supply on short notice to keep using the 7970 to finish my schoolwork
Xrain:
--- Quote from: jimonions on March 25, 2013, 07:57:16 PM ---That sounds like a completely different story from what I was told.
Here "were" my stats:
Windows 7
AMD Phenom(tm) 2 X4 830 Processor 2.80GHz
16gb RAM
CX600 Corsair
Radeon HD 7970 1gb core clocked to 1000 MHz (which says needs a power requirement of 550 watts)
Sound Card
750gb HDD
I was thinking about just salvaging the fan and discarding the rest.
I really needed the power supply on short notice to keep using the 7970 to finish my schoolwork
--- End quote ---
I would seriously just RMA it instead and sell if for $40 or so on ebay, or keep it as a spare. (That is unless the shipping actually ends up being prohibitive, it will tell you it after you enter your address in the RMA form.)
That 550W number you have isn't how much power it consumes, that is what size of power supply they recommend for your whole system. My GTX 470 that i ran before my workstation card draws more power than the 7970, and my power-supply powered it just fine.
Anything over 450W should be capable of powering your system, but I would recommend 550W to give you some overhead, so 600-650W should be more than plenty.
Here are some comparisons of system power draws http://www.anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/27
jimonions:
Ok I got my 650 and now the fan doesn't seem to want to move.
I get that it has a system where it will only move at higher loads but I've tried running both bad company 2 and Crysis at the same time and nothing gives. Right now its running at 54C according to speedfan.
I don't know how this program works exactly but It might be faulty since it says more than half the fans are running at 0RPM.
I was not running anything else except chrome
heres while running bc2
Xrain:
--- Quote from: jimonions on March 30, 2013, 10:02:39 PM ---Ok I got my 650 and now the fan doesn't seem to want to move.
I get that it has a system where it will only move at higher loads but I've tried running both bad company 2 and Crysis at the same time and nothing gives. Right now its running at 54C according to speedfan.
I don't know how this program works exactly but It might be faulty since it says more than half the fans are running at 0RPM.
I was not running anything else except chrome
heres while running bc2
--- End quote ---
Did you actually connect those fans to the sysfan connectors on the motherboard, or are they connected to the PSU.
54C is around a normal operating temperature for a GPU, if it gets over 90C then you might start worrying.
jimonions:
Everything is connected to the psu as far as I can tell.
fan 2 seems to be the one that never goes below 55 even at idle but I cannot tell which fan is which.
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