so i've gotten myself an r9 290x and now my PSU seems to not like it too much, as my motherboard yells "power surge". Basically, playing 1 specific scene in the witcher 3 caused my surge protection to trigger all the time, the only thing to stop it was setting the GPU power via AMD wattman to 50% (didn't test any other power settings). is there any way to go around this problem without sacrificing fps until i can get a better PSU or fix this one? and if i can fix it, what do i fix? maybe i screwed cabling up somehow?
specs:
i7-6700k at stock 4ghz
ASUS b150-PRO with 3016 bios
MSI r9 290x
16g single ddr4 stick
intel p600 m.2 ssd
WD green 1tb 7.4kRPM hdd
PSU: chieftec rated 650w (bought in october 2011)
also, while i've had an r9 270 (meaning 7 hours ago) i had zero hardware problems, also never seen ANY issues with the PSU. and my system is now rated up to 587w of power, so that's what makes me think the PSU is failing to keep up
specs:
i7-6700k at stock 4ghz
ASUS b150-PRO with 3016 bios
MSI r9 290x
16g single ddr4 stick
intel p600 m.2 ssd
WD green 1tb 7.4kRPM hdd
PSU: chieftec rated 650w (bought in october 2011)
also, while i've had an r9 270 (meaning 7 hours ago) i had zero hardware problems, also never seen ANY issues with the PSU. and my system is now rated up to 587w of power, so that's what makes me think the PSU is failing to keep up