White_Dragon Posted October 15, 2014 Member ID: 20018 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 184 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 244 Achievement Points: 1870 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/08/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 9, 2023 Birthday: 07/01/1952 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I'm not sure exactly what the problem is with my computer but, it has been smoking Video cards like they are free and grow on trees. I can't afford to buy new sets of X-fire cards at $800.00 plus a set every 6 weeks so I'm going to use a less powerful Video Card for the next few weeks and dial down everything to bottom line specs. Maybe they will last a little longer. Right now I'm going to put a new Antivirus called webroot in as I'm thinking that's my main problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BUDMAN Posted October 16, 2014 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 6960 Content Per Day: 1.32 Reputation: 4503 Achievement Points: 58393 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 4 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted October 16, 2014 What temps are they running under load ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BigPapaDean Posted October 16, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1200 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6529 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 4411 Achievement Points: 63453 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 06:24 AM Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted October 16, 2014 I'm not sure exactly what the problem is with my computer but, it has been smoking Video cards like they are free and grow on trees. I can't afford to buy new sets of X-fire cards at $800.00 plus a set every 6 weeks so I'm going to use a less powerful Video Card for the next few weeks and dial down everything to bottom line specs. Maybe they will last a little longer. Right now I'm going to put a new Antivirus called webroot in as I'm thinking that's my main problem. If you don't have a program that tells you the temps your vc's have been running let me give you a site to download and install one that will tell you how hot they run. All you need is the free one! https://www.piriform.com/speccy then tell us what temps your running! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Twinkie 13 Posted October 16, 2014 Member ID: 3003 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 26 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 418 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 347 Achievement Points: 3590 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/21/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 09:36 PM Birthday: 03/17/1979 Device: Windows Share Posted October 16, 2014 Sounds like a bad or underpowered power supply. Or enen could be a mobo issue Teleck, mouselad, WeednFeed and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DemonElf Posted October 16, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Thanks @@BigPapaDean, for that helpful tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyNashville Posted October 16, 2014 Member ID: 25938 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 343 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 1493 Content Per Day: 0.58 Reputation: 284 Achievement Points: 13299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/17/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 25, 2022 Birthday: 08/08/1961 Share Posted October 16, 2014 No need to spend 800 dollars for a set of graphic cards...go with a GTX 970 4 gig single card for 330 dollars. As far as burning cards up, like everyone else said...check your power supply (minimum 550 watts...1000 plus preferred) and monitor your temps (50 C preferred). jn Teleck, Damage_inc- and mouselad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted October 17, 2014 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4479 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3643 Achievement Points: 36581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 16 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2014 yes PSU should have a min of 65amps on 12v rail for X-fire,SLi a seasonic Platinum SS-860XP2 860W fits the bill for X-fire. SLi chores other is case air management for dual GPU's put out lot of heat cool air from front/bottom and out rear/top so your not recycling the heat generated by gpu's if cards are to close together , need to make air deflector to fan intake of card (old nylons cardboard backing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Teleck Posted November 2, 2014 Member ID: 601 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 389 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 69 Achievement Points: 2583 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 22, 2016 Birthday: 07/13/1967 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I would think it is a heat issue. not enough cooling on your cards. What case you have? there enough air flowing through it to help with the heat the cards generate? Enough fans to push the air through as well as the right type of fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage_inc- Posted November 3, 2014 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.36 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted November 3, 2014 No need to spend 800 dollars for a set of graphic cards...go with a GTX 970 4 gig single card for 330 dollars. As far as burning cards up, like everyone else said...check your power supply (minimum 550 watts...1000 plus preferred) and monitor your temps (50 C preferred). jn HE IS COMPLETLY RITE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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