I recently got an MSI GTX 470 (the one with the stock cooling and SF4 graphics on the box), and am having problems with it. Card installs fine boots ok and will work for an hour or 2 then the display freezes and a CTRL ALT DELETE locks the system and I have to hit the reset switch. After reset it boots back up but will freeze almost immediately or not making it past the windows loading screen.
I have read alot of conflicting things on power requirements for this card and suspect this might be the culprit, but the symptoms don't seem to me like that of a power problem. I've had cards before that the power supply couldn't handle, and the result was either a warning led on the card and it wouldn't even post or boot, or the PSU got hot after a while and shut itself down. In this case the PSU is blowing cold air the whole time and never seems overloaded. I have a cheap old 585w PSU with 19w and 20w 12v rails so it's pretty borderline considering some of the GTX 470s claim to need 38w on the 12v rails, but again, my symptoms do not fit what I think they would be if power was the issue. The card did run hot when gaming (85c or so) but not hot enough to crash it, and after some use it crashes even when not under load just sitting there looking at the desktop.
One issue I had was when I ran MSI afterburner that came with the card it was giving me #s that made no sense to me. Card is advertised to have a 607 core clock and 837 mhz memory, but without me messing with any setting afterburner was displaying 1599 mhz core clock and 801 mhz memory (I know these seem reversed, they are not)
I really don't want to spend close to $100 bucks on a new power supply only to find out that's not the issue, can anyone tell me if it sounds like I need a power supply or if it's the card? The card was open box, I'm guessing this is why, but I want to be sure before I decide to RMA the thing since I can't replace it for what I paid so I don't really want to return it.
I have read alot of conflicting things on power requirements for this card and suspect this might be the culprit, but the symptoms don't seem to me like that of a power problem. I've had cards before that the power supply couldn't handle, and the result was either a warning led on the card and it wouldn't even post or boot, or the PSU got hot after a while and shut itself down. In this case the PSU is blowing cold air the whole time and never seems overloaded. I have a cheap old 585w PSU with 19w and 20w 12v rails so it's pretty borderline considering some of the GTX 470s claim to need 38w on the 12v rails, but again, my symptoms do not fit what I think they would be if power was the issue. The card did run hot when gaming (85c or so) but not hot enough to crash it, and after some use it crashes even when not under load just sitting there looking at the desktop.
One issue I had was when I ran MSI afterburner that came with the card it was giving me #s that made no sense to me. Card is advertised to have a 607 core clock and 837 mhz memory, but without me messing with any setting afterburner was displaying 1599 mhz core clock and 801 mhz memory (I know these seem reversed, they are not)
I really don't want to spend close to $100 bucks on a new power supply only to find out that's not the issue, can anyone tell me if it sounds like I need a power supply or if it's the card? The card was open box, I'm guessing this is why, but I want to be sure before I decide to RMA the thing since I can't replace it for what I paid so I don't really want to return it.
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