I've recently upgraded my machine and am experiencing display failures when gaming.
I built the machine a couple of years ago and am running an Antec NeoHE 500W psu. Until recently I was running a Q6600 cpu with 2Gb RAM and an stock EVGA 8800GTX. I've played plenty of games (Crysis, COH, Bioshock) running XP 32Bit with no problems.
Last week I added another 2Gb of memory and replaced the gfx card with a stock EVGA GTX 260. Since I now have 4Gb RAM, I also moved to Vista 64Bit.
Now when I'm gaming I get random display failures. My monitor goes into standby and claims there is no signal from the gfx card. The machine itself does not reboot as I can hear that the game is still running. Unplugging and reattching the dvi cable makes no difference, neither does switching to the other dvi port on the card. If I force a reset, the display comes back fine.
I haven't experienced any crashes when not gaming. So is it a faulty gfx card maybe? Or am I overloading the psu when the gfx card is really working? What do you think?
I built the machine a couple of years ago and am running an Antec NeoHE 500W psu. Until recently I was running a Q6600 cpu with 2Gb RAM and an stock EVGA 8800GTX. I've played plenty of games (Crysis, COH, Bioshock) running XP 32Bit with no problems.
Last week I added another 2Gb of memory and replaced the gfx card with a stock EVGA GTX 260. Since I now have 4Gb RAM, I also moved to Vista 64Bit.
Now when I'm gaming I get random display failures. My monitor goes into standby and claims there is no signal from the gfx card. The machine itself does not reboot as I can hear that the game is still running. Unplugging and reattching the dvi cable makes no difference, neither does switching to the other dvi port on the card. If I force a reset, the display comes back fine.
I haven't experienced any crashes when not gaming. So is it a faulty gfx card maybe? Or am I overloading the psu when the gfx card is really working? What do you think?