I'm wondering if it could be the power supply I have is too small, or if I'm not keeping it cool enough.
I have Vtune, and it shows my temp at around 50c when the video just shuts off, then I've got to restart my computer. This trouble mainly occurs while I'm playing bionic commando rearmed...Naturally while on the final base of course...
I have a fan in the tower box along with my chip fan and the video card's built-in fan, is my tower just too small?
Could it be that my power supply is just not handling my load?
I did buy the card used, from someone I trusted, could it be I was swindled?
My mother board is a ASUSTeK M2N-X I've got an AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core processor
and I don't know what psu is, but I'll assume it's the power supply unit?
I have an atx switching power supply with a million numbers on it,which numbers would be helpful? Or is there a program for free I can see what my system is sucking up power wise? I'll go check really quick.
The graphics card is a nvidia geforce 9600gt, I would give the manufacturer make and model of the psu, but I can't find it anywhere on the thing. I think I got the problem figured out though. The card comes with a power cord that has 2 plugs on it, well I only had one of them plugged in, and after doing a little forum hopping and googling, it seems that I needed to have the other cord plugged in also. I did this yesterday, and so far I've had no troubles. I think sometime in the future though, I might go ahead and get a new tower box with a bigger fan and psu just to be on the safe side, can't hurt can it?
