Powersupply for Powercolor Radeon 9800 pro 256mb. How big ?

[Pendragon]

Hi.

I just bought ( been saving up a while for this):

Pentium 4 3000mhz, socket 478 FSB800
Samsung DDR3200, 512MB
Asus P4C800-E-Deluxe, canterwood
Powercolor Radeon 9800 pro, 256mb ddr-II
Cabinet called "Lanboy" with a 350watt powersupply
Win Xp Pro
(I had a hd (120gb), a cdwriter and a 17" monitor from previous system )

I have problem with the grafic output that comes to the monitor, sometimes
its fine, but most of the time there is like shadows in different colors on
text and lines, especially around the edges of my monitor and if i move a
window around i can see the grafic getting blurred when i moved it to for
example the button of the screen. I have used this monitor before
installling the card, so im pretty sure it works.

I have contacted the place i have bought the graficcard, but they just asked
me to mail them the card ( bought it online ), but i dont wanna send it,
before im as sure as i can get, that its the card, which causes the problem.
I have mailed the producer of the card, asking about powersupply size, but
havent gotten a answer yet.

All this boils down to this:

Is it my Powersupply that is too small or is there something wrong with the
graficcard or a third i havent thought of ?

Thanks alot for any help and advice.
Yours Jonas

Btw English is my second language, so sorry if faults made my post hard to
read/undestand

 

[Strontium]

I wouldn't buy a PowerColor card, ever again. Seems you're learning the
lesson, that I already have. If you can still return it, do it. Get a
Sapphire or ATI card. PowerColor sucks.


-
Pendragon stood up at show-n-tell, in
[email protected], and said:

 

[Kent_Diego]

Try changing the refresh rate. It has got be card, VGA cable, or monitor.

-Kent

 

[Neon]

I will second that opinion. Powercolor is the bottomdweller of the ATI
world. Sapphire is much better...they are the company who makes the OEM ATI
cards. I'm very happy with my retail ATI 9800 Pro.

 

[Michael Grey]

I had that problem also with an ATI AIW Pro 7000.It seemed to be my SCSI
cable was near my monitor cable.RFI interference.
I moved it out of the way and the shadows were gone.
Try it.

 

[Pendragon]

Yes, it was the refreshrate. I have damaged my monitorm which was 8 years
old and only supported 60hz and the refresh rate was set to 70hz, so now i
gotta buy a new monitor

Thanks for all your replyes

Jonas

 

[Ben Pope]

Yes, it was the refreshrate. I have damaged my monitorm which was 8
years old and only supported 60hz and the refresh rate was set to
70hz, so now i gotta buy a new monitor

Doesn't sound like a bad thing if it was runing at a maximum of 60Hz. Your
new monitor should be a delight to look at.

It amases me the number of people who will spend a grand on a computer and
then use a crap monitor and peripherals to interface with it.

Ben

 

[Pendragon]

Hehe, I was actually thinking about changing the monitor too, but i wasnt at
the top of my list due to the fact that monitor quality isnt something that
is required to run games, but cpu and grafic card is. So that is where i
spend my money first. Now im probably going to buy a 19" monitor that
atleast runs 85hz at 1600*1200.

 

[Ben Pope]

Hehe, I was actually thinking about changing the monitor too, but i
wasnt at the top of my list due to the fact that monitor quality isnt
something that is required to run games, but cpu and grafic card is.
So that is where i spend my money first. Now im probably going to buy
a 19" monitor that atleast runs 85hz at 1600*1200.

When I purchased a decent monitor my migraines went away. Could be
coincidence, but in hindsight they went when I changed the monitor.

You really should invest in a monitor capable of at least 75Hz with the
resolution you wish to run... I can see flicker all the way up to about 82Hz
if the lighting conditions are right.

Ben

 

[Mart]

Doesn't sound like a bad thing if it was runing at a maximum of 60Hz. Your
new monitor should be a delight to look at.

It amases me the number of people who will spend a grand on a computer and
then use a crap monitor and peripherals to interface with it.

I've posted this somewhere else in the newsgroup, but it applies here too:

I can't see what all the fuss is about with refresh rates - I can't see any
difference whatsoever in the 60, 70, 75 or 85Hz that my 17"
Packard Bell CRT monitor (bought in 1999!) offers.

 

[Babble]

I've posted this somewhere else in the newsgroup, but it applies here too:

I can't see what all the fuss is about with refresh rates - I can't see any
difference whatsoever in the 60, 70, 75 or 85Hz that my 17"
Packard Bell CRT monitor (bought in 1999!) offers.

Set your monitor to 60Hrz refresh rate. Now look at something at
about a 45° angle from the monitor. Now, using your peripheral
vision, notice the monitor screen. See it flickering? You should.
That causes eye strain, fatigue, headaches,,, and poor gaming
benchmarks. <g>
At whatever refresh rate you do not notice flicker, usually around 75
for most common resolutions, is the refresh rate you should use. No
more. Higher refresh rates only unnecessarily tax the monitor and
will lessen the color saturation. If the gun(s) are turning on and
off 100 x's a sec. as apposed to 75, that's approx 25% less that the
image is being displayed. Less saturation. Less color...
You get the picture. <g>