dnbluprints
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- Mar 13, 2013
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My x51 came with the OEM 660 GTX and I'm just not happy unless I'm tinkering so I put a EVGA 660 TI with reference cooling in along with my 256 Kingston Hyper-X SSD. Everything seemed great, good fps in Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider at ultra. There were a few crashes I attributed to the games just not being very optimized but assassin's Creed 3 just totally rebooted my pc. I loaded up some Star Craft 2 and it worked flawless up to the second map where my pc crashed. During the screen crash there were graphic anomalies and BOOM! dead card. My temps on max load were low 60c's but usually stayed around 50-60c.
So I decided I got a bad card, sent it back and got a new one a few days later. I purchased a fan to exhaust air from the cabinet the X51 was housed and my temps improved a few degrees but nothing major. Card worked with many of the same crashes and reboots even underclocked. It actually even messed up my SSD drive and my BCD boot partition was corrupt and the pc wouldn't even boot. I fixed it all up and backed up all of my data and was playing something older after again, underclocking a bit more. Dead video card with little green lines all over my boot screen and desktop.
So, just a warning to anyone thinking of upgrading the video card, if you have a loaded X51 with a separarte SSD and hard drive, and a lot of USB peripherals think about running a second psu for the video card or risk blowing up your vid card or damaging the psu supplied. I was lucky enough I could return the card for a refund.
Maybe I have another issue causing the problems but my stock psu measures proper voltage via multimeter so I'm not quite sure what it is except I was pushing the card hard enough to get starved for power and effect the SSD as well when it crashed. There has to be a good reason some people get away with gtx 670s on stock power brick and some of us can't even use a gtx 660 ti.
So I decided I got a bad card, sent it back and got a new one a few days later. I purchased a fan to exhaust air from the cabinet the X51 was housed and my temps improved a few degrees but nothing major. Card worked with many of the same crashes and reboots even underclocked. It actually even messed up my SSD drive and my BCD boot partition was corrupt and the pc wouldn't even boot. I fixed it all up and backed up all of my data and was playing something older after again, underclocking a bit more. Dead video card with little green lines all over my boot screen and desktop.
So, just a warning to anyone thinking of upgrading the video card, if you have a loaded X51 with a separarte SSD and hard drive, and a lot of USB peripherals think about running a second psu for the video card or risk blowing up your vid card or damaging the psu supplied. I was lucky enough I could return the card for a refund.
Maybe I have another issue causing the problems but my stock psu measures proper voltage via multimeter so I'm not quite sure what it is except I was pushing the card hard enough to get starved for power and effect the SSD as well when it crashed. There has to be a good reason some people get away with gtx 670s on stock power brick and some of us can't even use a gtx 660 ti.