MSI 6950 no post

[IronIcon]

Hi everyone,

Long time lurker here but never posted until now.

Anyway, just bought an MSI 6950 TwinFroz III to replace my trusty old 8800GT. Now when I power the system on there is nothing on the display and a red light shows on the top of the new card.

I've reseated the card.
System works fine with the old card back in.
Have double checked PCI-E 6 pin power plugs are both plugged in correctly.

The rest of my system specs are as follows:-

Corsair HX520
Asus M2N-E
Athlon 64 X2 5000
5GB Corsair XMS2
Dell SP2309W

I don't think I've done anything stupid........ is the card DOA?

Thanks.

 

[IronIcon]

For anyone that's interested, I've now resolved the issue.

Turns out my old Corsair hx520 was somehow not giving the 6950 enough
juice. Went and bought a Corsair TX650M and everything is fine now.

Now just need to upgrade mobo and cpu to get the most out the new gfx card.

 

[nanaki333]

good work! that would have been my first guess to check

i can't believe you're still sporting an x2. that 6950 must be starving! you may be able to find an AM2+ phenom x4 and keep your mobo for pretty cheap.

 

[IronIcon]

BF3 performance is terrible (although I half expected this anyway) even with the new card. My cpu is holding the 6950 back badly, am going to go Sandybridge in the next week or so.

 

[fortega]

It's a never ending saga of upgrades. I did something similar lately In the end you will be happy with the performance. I went the I5-2500k route and new gpu/mobo/ram/.

 

[chimaxi83]

overclock that 2500k to 4.0+ and that 6950 will be happy :biggrin: