Okay geeks, I need a bit of advice. Some of you might recall I've been having issues with my new soundcard. More specifically just the headphone output on the front box. Well, I've managed to completey cure this by giving the box a better supply of power (not sharing with my DVD drive) and the crackling headphone problem has virtually vanished. Still very slight but vastly improved, and it only seems to do it when the machine is under heavy load.
Iv'e also jst been playing HL2 Episode 1, and the game crashed. Restarted the game and Windows crashed. This was during a pretty heavy action scene that would have been working the 7950GX2 pretty fookin' hard. So I reduced my board overclock slightly and then the game managed to get through the tough bit.
Now, this points to a power problem. Do you all agree? It's a 520w Gloabalwin ATX (not ATX2) and it's powering one optical, one SATA HDD, 7950GX2, X-Fi and the odd case fan. I'm thinking this slight showing of instablity is most likely my PSU. It should easily power that lot I would have thought, but I'm unsure of the ATX2 implications and perhaps it's jusst on it's way out anyway.
Iv'e also jst been playing HL2 Episode 1, and the game crashed. Restarted the game and Windows crashed. This was during a pretty heavy action scene that would have been working the 7950GX2 pretty fookin' hard. So I reduced my board overclock slightly and then the game managed to get through the tough bit.
Now, this points to a power problem. Do you all agree? It's a 520w Gloabalwin ATX (not ATX2) and it's powering one optical, one SATA HDD, 7950GX2, X-Fi and the odd case fan. I'm thinking this slight showing of instablity is most likely my PSU. It should easily power that lot I would have thought, but I'm unsure of the ATX2 implications and perhaps it's jusst on it's way out anyway.
