samdeflash
Disciple
Hi All,
I am in serious trouble and am clueless about the problem. The problem is that my two motherboards have gone bad after the arrival of GTX 470 and Corsair GS 600.
Prior to November 2010, I had a system running fine with the following specs:
Mid November:
I upgraded my system to GTX 470 (38 A on 12V required) and a Corsair GS 600 PSU (48 A on 12 V). After installation but before installing drivers, there was display on the screen, but after installing NVIDIA drivers the computer froze. I tried to restart but there was nothing displayed on the screen. I felt a heartache to see no display on my monitor. All the fans were running and lights coming up but no display on the monitor. Next day I asked an engineer to take a look and he told me that the the Motherboard BG (powering unit/socket not sure) had gone bad.
My question - Whether GS 600 was not good enough for the GTX 470. Or the GTX 470, after driver update took its demon avatar and conked my mobo off. I was not able to RMA it, as I had lost its receipt while shifting places (One state to another)
After this incident, I upgraded my motherboard and CPU to avoid bottlenecks. So the new specs are:
The machine ran fine with this spec for a week (the GPU GTX 470 and PSU were fine and were ok when the first mobo busted). It happened one day (after the system ran fine for a week) - I properly shut down my system, the next day when I tried to switch it on, it would run for 3 seconds and shut down. But after that I could only switch it from after shutting down UPS and PSU switch. But again the Compauter would shut down after 3 seconds. I was really heartbroken
, cursing myself on upgrading the new system. At least I was playing games with the HD 4650.
Since I had the receipt I was able to get it replaced with a clause from vendor that it wont be replaced the next time. He stated that the mobo might have been busted due to a voltage problem.
This time around, I have installed a APC 650 VA UPS, but still not installed the GTX 470. My major concern is that either there is something wrong with the GTX 470 or my PSU is not able to supply clean voltage.
My earnest request to all GURUS on this forum, please help me out on my concern, as I think that installing a GTX 470 yet again would rob me of my playing time. Its a real pain to shell off 16000 bucks and not yet able to play. For the time being and its already 3 days now the system runs fine withe HD 4650.
To make it short, can a Corsair GS 600 handle GTX 470. All are in stock condition and I do not OC any hardware. Also I would like to know the possible cause of failures for the two motherboards.
I am in serious trouble and am clueless about the problem. The problem is that my two motherboards have gone bad after the arrival of GTX 470 and Corsair GS 600.
Prior to November 2010, I had a system running fine with the following specs:
- Motherboard:MS 7501/MSI K9V2AM
- CPU:AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ [Socket AM2] RAM -
- RAM: Kingston 2GB 800 MHz [DDR 2]; GPU -
- GPU: ATI Radeon 4650 1 GB,
- PSU: stock 450 watts. I was playing games at 1280*1080 for the last two years.
Mid November:
I upgraded my system to GTX 470 (38 A on 12V required) and a Corsair GS 600 PSU (48 A on 12 V). After installation but before installing drivers, there was display on the screen, but after installing NVIDIA drivers the computer froze. I tried to restart but there was nothing displayed on the screen. I felt a heartache to see no display on my monitor. All the fans were running and lights coming up but no display on the monitor. Next day I asked an engineer to take a look and he told me that the the Motherboard BG (powering unit/socket not sure) had gone bad.
My question - Whether GS 600 was not good enough for the GTX 470. Or the GTX 470, after driver update took its demon avatar and conked my mobo off. I was not able to RMA it, as I had lost its receipt while shifting places (One state to another)
After this incident, I upgraded my motherboard and CPU to avoid bottlenecks. So the new specs are:
- Motherboard: ASUS MS88VE USB3
- CPU: Phenom 2 1055T,
- PSU: Corsair GS 600,
- RAM - 4GB Transcend
The machine ran fine with this spec for a week (the GPU GTX 470 and PSU were fine and were ok when the first mobo busted). It happened one day (after the system ran fine for a week) - I properly shut down my system, the next day when I tried to switch it on, it would run for 3 seconds and shut down. But after that I could only switch it from after shutting down UPS and PSU switch. But again the Compauter would shut down after 3 seconds. I was really heartbroken
, cursing myself on upgrading the new system. At least I was playing games with the HD 4650. Since I had the receipt I was able to get it replaced with a clause from vendor that it wont be replaced the next time. He stated that the mobo might have been busted due to a voltage problem.
This time around, I have installed a APC 650 VA UPS, but still not installed the GTX 470. My major concern is that either there is something wrong with the GTX 470 or my PSU is not able to supply clean voltage.
My earnest request to all GURUS on this forum, please help me out on my concern, as I think that installing a GTX 470 yet again would rob me of my playing time. Its a real pain to shell off 16000 bucks and not yet able to play. For the time being and its already 3 days now the system runs fine withe HD 4650.
To make it short, can a Corsair GS 600 handle GTX 470. All are in stock condition and I do not OC any hardware. Also I would like to know the possible cause of failures for the two motherboards.
