- Joined
- May 3, 2003
- Location
- Cleveland, GA
Mine's sucking the juice too. I had a terminal crash when I tried to set my OC back to established perameters after the installation of the ultra. My regular clock had been FSB @ 230, 1.6v, memory @ 5:4, auto, 2-2-2-5. I had been experimenting with straight memory timings and had reduced the FSB to 220 where I could run the memory at 1:1, however the timings were relaxed to 2-3-3-6. Any way after reading the results of increases in graphics performance ratio with processor performance I decided to revert back to my old settings incresing the FSB, but upon reboot,and even after increasing the Vcore to 1.65 (which suppport boot and load Windows with a FSB of 235 before) I encountered a series of failures resulting in a file corruption issue leading to a Windows reinstall.
I've ordered a new PSU thinking that power consumption has to be the culprit. The card will run fine at default settings but when I place the additional strain of over clocking is when the system takes the hit. This supports the reports of people running the cards successfully off a 330w PSU, but they don't actually state what exactly is on the system. Dual raptors, hardrives, CD's, and the additoinal loads of overclocking must place additonal demands on the power system. Once the new PSU arrives I'm going to do a clean install and then see were I can push this puppy.
I've ordered a new PSU thinking that power consumption has to be the culprit. The card will run fine at default settings but when I place the additional strain of over clocking is when the system takes the hit. This supports the reports of people running the cards successfully off a 330w PSU, but they don't actually state what exactly is on the system. Dual raptors, hardrives, CD's, and the additoinal loads of overclocking must place additonal demands on the power system. Once the new PSU arrives I'm going to do a clean install and then see were I can push this puppy.