Thread: Power Supply ?

Originally Posted by dex71

I think it's the RM series that takes the heat.

I have had my RM1000 (running two 770GTX) for a bit over two years now, and I think it may be the culprit of my crashes (when I have SLI enabled, BF4 will crash almost every time a new map loads and is just about to start). I will be running to Microcenter soon and picking up another one (they are pretty cheap now....100-150, and I won't have to do anything other than plug the already existing cables into the new psu).

Dex,

Does it only happen with SLI enabled? Do you you have an extra SLI bridge to test? If you have replaced the PSU, I'm leaning towards a card starting to fart out on you, but maybe check the bridge first.

Otherwise.....it's done its job.

I think it may have been the Nvidia audio drivers.

After going in and disabling the Nvidia audio drivers (which I have never used or enabled), I hopped on the server with only one card in the machine. I played 5ish maps, and not one crash. So I installed the second card and played for another 5ish maps, and not a single crash or hiccup.

Saturday, it would crash with SLI enabled in less than a full map. Eliminating one of the cards would get me a map and a half before it would crash the machine (and by crash I mean crash....fans stop running and machine reboots). The only real difference was the audio drivers (after making sure that the card's own firmware were up to date).