Graphics card problem BLACKSCREENS AND CRASH?
I recently got a MSI R6970 Lightning or a Radeon HD 6970.
I bought the video card and only noticed when buying that he needed 2x8 pin so I got 2x6 to 8 pin adapter.
The graphics card also had 3 options silent, normal or performance
When I first wanted to start the graphics card with performance I did not get a picture so I set it to silent
the first week worked ok but in games like fortnite worst FPS laggs only 1-10 FPS but with games like CSGO it worked normally.
then I came up with the idea to overcock the graphics card so the power limit to + 20% and then did CSGO started ran normally after 10 minutes of black screen and now it is so sometimes crashing the games or the pc nen Blackscreen gets
Here the question is the video card is defective or should I get a better power supply?
P.S. The graphics card is a power edition
Had the problem with the graphics card AMD Readon 390 nitro. Blackscreens and had to restart the PC manually.
maybe everything back to the old values? Watch the temperatures and possibly renew the gpu thermal grease. I have not found a solution and sold the card on eBay kl for 50 euro as a defect.
Using one of these nasty 6 to 8 pin PCIe adapters is always a bad idea if the power supply does not already provide these connections by itself. It will have its reasons why a power supply has only a certain type and number of connections.
Map OC is in such a version (MSI Lightning) also a very bad idea, if already the cabling of a not designed for itself power supply was tampered with.
So you have to have a powerful PSU.
The HD 6970 - 2 GB would actually synonymous without OC for Fortnite rich, if you do not play over 1080p resolution and the quality details accordingly (down) adapts.
The coarse Laggs / stuttering in Fortnite is either due to the rest of your system's components or due to software or configuration issues.
It would be interesting, if you would name us the remaining components of your system.
I have CPU Z
CPU
Specification AMD Phenom (TM) II X4 965 Processor
Core Speed 3399.8 MHz
Number of cores 4 (max 4)
R.A.M.
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Frequency 666.6 MHz
4x2gb
motherboard
Mainboard Model 870A-G54
GPU
Name AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
ID 0x20D0001
Memory size 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5
Performance Level 0
Core clock 250.0 MHz
Memory clock 150.0 MHz
Performance Level 1
Core clock 500.0 MHz
Memory clock 1375.0 MHz
Performance Level 2
Core clock 940.0 MHz
Memory clock 1375.0 MHz
monitor
Model TERRA 2460W ()
Max Resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
In addition, which power supply would you recommend
With the power supply I would recommend at least a Be Quiet Pure Power 11 - 500, better the 600 W model in this overall system. Alone, the mentioned graphics card can record under load in the peak over 250 watts. (without manual OC)
Your CPU is already relatively weak for Fortnite (Battle Royale) as the Phenom II x4 - 965 @ 3.4 Ghz in singlethreaded performance is not even close to a 2.4GHz clocked Intel Core i3 - 4100m. (and this CPU is minimally required at Fortnite.
Therefore, you should not choose more than low to medium quality in this game in 1080p.
Here are some CPU benchmarks regarding CPU limit in this game (Attention, only the middle FPS are listed):
https://www.gpucheck.com/de-eur/game_gpu/fortnite-battle-royale/nvidia-geforce-gt-1030/amd-phenom-ii-x4-965/medium
The Corsair VS 650 you can take for your purposes, if you low efficiency and possibly much higher noise of this PSU in favor of a certain price savings compared to the BQT SP 11 - 600 do not disturb here.
Each 25 A on the four + 12V rails should technically meet the purpose of the requirement, at least for CPU and this graphics card. ☺
