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I am running into a problem where my game freezes periodically during World of Warcraft. I think I have narrowed down the problem to the Power supply not being large enough to support my video card. The error I am getting is nv4_disp. I have a Geforce 7950 GT that shows a need for at least 600W power supply. My power supply is the factory piece that came with the system, which is 315 Watt. What would be a good fitting power supply that would support this video card and the current system.
I will be honest however and say that I am at my whits end on this system, I have replaced the HD and a set of ram trying to narrow down this problem. I have updated my bios, directx and my drivers for the video card.
Any help would be appreciated before I throw it away and buy something better.
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David.
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Posted June 15th, 2010 07:00
Thank you for your answer, is there a way to help cool down that card? I ended up putting a 650W PS in my system that had a fan on the bottom to help cool the video card and other components. Something else I did was disable the onboard video card through the bios and they seemed to have helped a bit.
Regards,
David
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Posted June 15th, 2010 08:00
There are PCI fan cards that you install like a PCI card that has one or two fans on them. That would help with the cooling.
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Posted June 14th, 2010 17:00
I have an E510.
The E510 uses a standard ATX power supply, not a proprietary. Any good quality supply will work and you may want to consider one of the "modular" types to avoid unused power cable clutter. You need a power supply with a 24 pin or a 20 plus 4 pin for the primary power connection, plus a 4 pin Molex for the motherboard. SATA connectors for the hard drive(s) and PATA (IDE) connectors for the CD/DVD drives and I assume a PCIe connector for the video card.
HERE is a Corsair modular from newegg.com
However, the E510 is not a "gaming" PC and the big thing I see with this card is the amount of heat it generates. The heat may be causing more problems than the power supply, although a higher wattage supply won't hurt.