Forum: Vue


Subject: Help, a complete Vue newbie in trouble here...

Aisuru opened this issue on Feb 26, 2012 · 29 posts


ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 29 February 2012 at 3:25 PM

World of Warcraft is not a video card hog.  Do you remember the computer's original owner yelling whenever the computer would shut off?

The heating is normal.  As long as the fans are spinning, they're being cooled.  The video card will run hot even with a stronger power supply.  Some power supplies have a temperature sensor in them and can tell Windows "I'm over heating" or can even say "I'm dying now, going to shutoff for a bit".  This all depends on your system board having inputs for this and you have the software installed for it.  Otherwise, the power supply just cuts out without any warning to avoid burning your place down.

How many D: E: F: drives do you have?  How many C: drives?  They use power too.  Is there a modem card in there still?  Any old SCSI card for something you don't have plugged in anymore?  Some firewire card or USB card?  Video cards use quite a bit more power than those other cards put together.  So best to beef up the power supply.  Is the network built into the system board or is that an additional card?  Also turn off the built-in video on the system board (in the CMOS settings screen at boot up) if there is one.  It doesn't need to be using power if you don't have a second monitor plugged into it.  Unplug any USB hard drives you have connected that do not have their own AC adapters for power.

350 watt is cutting things rather close.

My system is very old.  It has an AGP video card in to.  Fallout 3 runs great on it without noise (fan noise).  So does Vue.  But 3D-Coat will cause my video card's fan to kick up some speed.  And so did a new game I just played called Dear Esther.  It had amazing real-time graphics for an old game engine.  My video card normally runs at 54C.  Dear Esther kicked it up to 63C after just taking a vew steps in the game.  Exiting the game would shut the fan down a bit when it reached 54C (takes about 8 seconds to do).

My system originally had a 250 watt.

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