Darunia's New Video Card

[etoven]

The new video card specifically says 400 watt. I bought a 450 watt power supply. It ought to be more than ample. Can the card be defective...? And still function as it does? Some things run fine... it can't be defective, can it?

Remember.. If your processor is drawing 200W then your card is only getting 250W. 450W seems kind of low to me for a modern video card and your processor type.

Also, yes the card can be defective and still function as it does. Typically when a card has issues with it's GPU only certain instruction sets are effected. So for the most part the card behaves normally, only when certon instructions are called, does it malfunction. And typically it's the instructions dealing with 3D handling that tend to misbehave.