- Joined
- Apr 19, 2004
- Location
- South Africa
I have the following system setup as standard (no tweaks to the system, no overclocks of any sort - system is out of the box):
Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP mboard
AMD Athlon 54 3200+ CPU (with standard heatsink and fan)
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT GPU
2 x 512Mb (DDR333) RAM Sticks
1 x 40Gig Seagate 7200RPM 8Mb Cache System Hard Disk
COMPAQ 19" 9500 Monitor
Cheap no-name case with 300Watt PSU (no extra fans in case)
Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite Wireless Keyboard and mouse
OS is Microsoft Windows XP Home
DirectX 9b
My system runs fine and fast, however when I try and run games like Vietcong, X2 and others they work fine for a while and then suddenly they either exit without any indication, or they have a memory crash (this happened in Far Cry demo).
I have tried the Ati Radeon 9600XT and the GeForce FX 5200 and the problem re-occours. The GeForce FX 5200 is almost the most stable of the lot.
My friend is playing the same games on a lower specced AMD Athlon chip with a GeForce FX 5200 without any problems.
I have just invested heavily in this system (all parts new) and I have sent back and exchanged various video cards as they were supposed to be the cause of the problem. I cannot find any refrence to the Gigabyte board as the problem. I was told that their is an issue between the board and the Ati Radeon 9600XT card - hence the fact that I know have the MSI GeForce FX 5900 XT card.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing my woes? Is my PSU too weak, is it overheating? Do you think my board is faulty? Please any advise will be appreciated.
Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP mboard
AMD Athlon 54 3200+ CPU (with standard heatsink and fan)
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT GPU
2 x 512Mb (DDR333) RAM Sticks
1 x 40Gig Seagate 7200RPM 8Mb Cache System Hard Disk
COMPAQ 19" 9500 Monitor
Cheap no-name case with 300Watt PSU (no extra fans in case)
Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite Wireless Keyboard and mouse
OS is Microsoft Windows XP Home
DirectX 9b
My system runs fine and fast, however when I try and run games like Vietcong, X2 and others they work fine for a while and then suddenly they either exit without any indication, or they have a memory crash (this happened in Far Cry demo).
I have tried the Ati Radeon 9600XT and the GeForce FX 5200 and the problem re-occours. The GeForce FX 5200 is almost the most stable of the lot.
My friend is playing the same games on a lower specced AMD Athlon chip with a GeForce FX 5200 without any problems.
I have just invested heavily in this system (all parts new) and I have sent back and exchanged various video cards as they were supposed to be the cause of the problem. I cannot find any refrence to the Gigabyte board as the problem. I was told that their is an issue between the board and the Ati Radeon 9600XT card - hence the fact that I know have the MSI GeForce FX 5900 XT card.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing my woes? Is my PSU too weak, is it overheating? Do you think my board is faulty? Please any advise will be appreciated.