MSI 7900 GTO what PSU specs?

I am thinking of buying a MSI 7900 GTO graphics card.
What would be the specs my PSU needs to fulfil?
My PSU does have this extra PCI-e connector but I am afraid it will be to weak for this card.
It is a Coolermaster 430W Extreme Power.
I am an absolute no-know on these matters but as I understood from this great forum the amps on the +12V line are what is important.
The thing is that the specs give 2 values for the +12V line:
+12V 1 = 14A
+12V 2 = 15A
What does this mean?
Oh, btw my system specs are:
Asrock 4COREDUAL-VSTA mainboard
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 @ 2x 2.13 Ghz
Zalman CNPS 8000
2x 1GB Aeneon @ 667 Mhz (4-4-4-12)
1x WD 250 GB IDE
1x NEC 5170A DVD RW
1x LG GDR 8164B DVD ROM
Coolermaster Extreme Power 430W PSU (RS-430-PCAR)

Thanks for the quick replies!
So I guess that will mean a new PSU after all. I wanted to have a modular PSU anyway, so this is my chance..;-)
Although I still don't know what PSU to pick. I was thinking about an Enermax, a Seasonic or a be-Quiet. The PSU's I am thinking about are about 500W but they don't have at least 20 amps on the splitted +12V rail........Do I really have to purchase a big 600W or more PSU?
@Vernonion:
Actually I am thinking of overclocking this MSI 7900 GTO @ 7900 GTX instead of downclocking it....
My neighbour did it, he is the one that recommended this card to me, since you can have the performance of a 7900 GTX for about half the price!
So you really like my setup...? Thanks! It is nothing special but for me it is more than enough.
I am happy with this board, especially after I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. Before I had problems with the memory, now it is running like a charm
I've bought this mobo because it was perfect for upgrading my system: I could/can still use my old AGP graphics card (Nvidea 6200 256mb) which I want to upgrade now. Since I also have a PCI-e slot, I can upgrade to such a card. I am still using all my 'old' IDE devices, like HDD, DVD RW and DVD ROM. Thanks for not cursing me since I purchased anything other than a MSI mobo
You guys are great and this forum really rules!
Bob

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Broken MSI 7900 GTO

I have the following problem:
Last week i wanted to see a movie on television, so i switched from normal output to TV-out. After this my computer gets silent. After removing my graphic card from my computer system, my system was bootable. So i assume that i had an electrical breakdown. Even with my graphic card into the pci-e slot and without the pci-e powerconnector the system was bootable (the fan of graphic card was rotating).
I have tried the graphic card in another computer but same problem appears.
System specs:
* E4300
* MSI P6n sli platinum
* Kingston 2x1gb pc8500
* Maxtor 160 gb
* MSI 7900 GTO
* Enermax EAX495
* Windows XP prof
Because I could not find my invoice of the card , i turned to my local MSI Office but without succes. They can not do anything without a warranty paper or bill.
What to do?...

I think you have the Noisetaker I version of Enermax, that one has splitrail and you may NOT add them up.
Only the new version Noisetaker II can do 32A on the rails.
As for testing in another computer, I presume you tested the videocard in another system and that other system doesn't start as well?
If the non-starting thing is happening in the other system too, then the card must be broken.

MSI 7900 GTO: improve cooling with Arctic Silver 5?

Would it be useful to improve the cooling of my 7900 GTO with Arctic Silver 5?
If yes, do I need to apply this thermal paste on the main chip only or also on the 6 (or 8?) other chips around the main one?
My 7900 GTO is running at 690/810 MHz. (Riva Tuner)
In 2D-mode the card reaches a temperature of about 38 degrees Celsius, in 3D-mode it reaches temperatures between 45 degrees (older game like Counter Strike: Source) and 60 degrees (newer games like Medal of Honor Airborne or Call of Duty 4).

I owe a 7900 GTX (Similar to the GTO) and it's 44C idle and after some long game session about 67C.
If your never even goes above 60C, don't EVER think about replacing the cooler; It'll only void your warranty. The 7900 GTO can easily bare 70-80 degrees. If it ever gets above 80, I would start worrying. Ofcourse 80 isn't damaging anything yet, but it could lower the life of your graphics card!
60°C is actually really low for a high-end graphics card, under full-load You even overclocked it, and still it's only 60°C!

MSI 7900 GTO 512

Hi all,
I connect my 7900 GTO to my analog TV, but I see all in Black & white?
Someone of you have the same problem?
please HELP ME

Did you set the output format according to your TV ( PAL, NTSC, etc .. ?)

Problems with 7900 gto

My graphic card a msi 7900 gto is giving strange pixel fault and freezes doing gaming and in 3d mark.
I have manage to get through both 3d mark05 with the score of 1502 and 3dmark 06 with the score 2905.
the system works great in desktop but as soon as i go in 3d mode it freezes and show strange pixels after 2-3 min.
The CPU and ram has been tested so it's not there the fault is. It shall be said that this started the same day i got the new rig
that's Thursday, so it hasn't worked correct.
I have send the card back. can it be something else?
my system is
MB msi p965 neo
CPU Intel core 2 duo E6600 2.4
msi 7900gto (now rma)
2GB corsair ram
a 500 antec psu
and a 200gb sata one drive

Thx, just wanted to make sure that i wasn't totallly wrong.
I wasn't sure how fast this forum worked, but it works fast .
I wrote also to see if i could have done anything else and if other have had the
same problems.
Again thanks for the fast reply

MY MSI 7900 GTX pci-512 , plz need ur help and openions

pc specs :
intel 3.00 G DUO core
1 gig kingston 533 MHZ, used to be 2G ( explained below )
built in audology creative sound card
MB : gigabyte , 975X
PSU :Thermaltake 420 watt u can check it here http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Thermaltake-Thermaltake-W0062RU-TR2-Series-420W-Power-Supply-Retail-Free-2nd-Day
HD: 2x sata 300 gig each
DVD writer samsung
OS" WINXP -SP2
case : ATX A-open
moniter : 23 inch wide screen (1920x1200)
VGA: MSI 7900 GTX pci-512
all my system fully updated ( MB bios , drivers ...security updates ...etc
my story :
being a big fan of the game world of the warcraft made me always thinking of getting the best VGA cards , this lead me to the idea of upgrading my VGA from ATI x850xt to get a new MSI 7900GTX 512 PCI-E
things were great for the first 4 months , nothing was there , best ever VGA i may get and use , almost one months ago i had to install the game again due to many suddens errors ( mainly corrupted files in theg ame folder )
since then i started to have things i would never had before , what im having now is
1- game screen start to have long lines , screen freez then system crash with BOSD saying i have nvidia error dll file ,
2- my game kept always having corrupted files and i always had to reinstall ,
what i have tried are
updating , rolling back the VGA driver ( from MSI site and the NVIDIA site) , updating the BIOS of MB form gigabyte site
formatting and getting a fresh copy of winXP
reducing the clock speed to min (eventhough my card temp never passed 60 degree)
i did also a mem test on my rams , i found that my corrupted files was cuased by one of them , so when it was removed corrupted files problem was fixed , however my card still crash and nothing changed
i tired useing opengl , nosound , and reduced all VGA options to be off at the game setting , but still crash
i already contacted tech supp at MSI and used the driver they advised me to use , but nothing change ,
the VGA crash happen in a wiered way , sometimes it can stay for 6 hrs without a crash and sometimes every 3 mins
and somtimes it crash at the login screen even before i start the game
i just dont know why it was working for 4 months and crashed now
now my question , is my VGA became a dead card like my ram and i should buy a new one , was that caused by the PSU , should i get a new VGA and keep the PSU or should i get the two of them new , and is there any way to fix my VGA to make it working as before ,
btw , i have tried many 3D games and all give the same crash
ur help will realy appreciated

Quote from: sambatico on 22-January-07, 00:56:51
just noticed somthing not written on my psu box and not at the link of the PSU
it says +12v@10amp , +12v@15 amp
still dont know what that mean , is it 25 amp in total ? ( there is nothing written like total at the box )
get a better PSU, some good options can be found here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=103299.msg757739#msg757739
its a good idea in same time to test VGA on other machine to check his status as well.

What PSU should i buy?

Hey, i have an important question. I have seen a bunch of posts here on the forum about lack of juice out of PSU's with certain hardware configs....
I think i have the same problems here, flickering textures in games, when playing games they just quit and im back in windows.... and even sometimes it just hangs.... this is only when playing games or 3D rendering in 3D studio max.
Here are my system specs.
ESC K7S6A mainboard (bios version 1.0f )
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512 MB DDR
WD 40GB/8mb cache (7200rpm)
WD 80GB/2mb cache (7200rpm)
LiteOn CDRW 48x
LiteOn CD/DVD 48x/24x
SB Audigy player 5.1
MSI G4Ti4600-VTD (also tested with MSI G4MX440)
3com Network card 10/100
Microsoft optical mouse
PSU 300w
Windows XP Professional Corp. (NL + SP1)
DirectX 9.0
nVidia 41.09 drivers for WinXP
I think that my PSU is not good (correct me if im wrong), what PSU should i buy with my specs? please give me a brand and typenumber...

Is there any way to check if the power supply is definetly causing problems - I just bought am G4MX440 and after installing it (was using 32meg TNT2), game graphics are all screwey
TO-AOT (blank screen)
Q3 (all i get in the menus is the firey surround 'quake 3')
GTA3 ('bout a hundred tiled menu windows)
After reading many of the posts I assumed it was my power supply, went back to where i bought it (both the pc and the card) to upgrade nah it's the card bring it back.
P4 1.5 on GA-8IDX
SONY DVD
PANASONIC 8*4*32 CD-R/W
512 MB SD
MSI G4MX440-T
some TV tuner card (dunno)
directX 8.1 also tried 9
300W psu
3.3 - 14A | 160W combined
5 - 30A |
12 - 15A
These guys are selling all their P4 packages with various G4 and other card with 300W power supplies without issue (or so they say)
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Stolen MSI 7900 GS card?

Hi,
In some posts BOSSKILLER warned us from stolen 7900 GS cards: http://www.msicomputer.com/msiforms2/stolen.asp
Well, I live in Israel and two weeks ago I bought a computer from one of the biggest computer companies in Israel - Ivory computers. This company is the Israeli importer of MSI's products. My computer includes the MSI 7900 GS VGA card. The computer is very noisy so I opened it to see what is the reason for the noise. There are two reasons: one is the Intel's stock CPU fan (C2D - E6300) and the other is the Green fan on the Green 7900 GS card.
So, BOSSKILLER, what should I do? Is it a legitimate card? Is the Red card better?
If I want to replace the card's fan, what fan you recommend?

Finally I got an answer:
At first MSI support ignored the warrenty issue and answered on the fan noise issue. I eneterd a new request on the warrenty (stolen card) issue. Here are their answers:
On the noise issue the answer is:
"Dear customer,
Thank you for contacting the MSI technical support.
If the VGA card's fan is too noise, please reinstall the VGA card and the driver to try. Also, you can install the VGA card on other computer to check. If the problem still exists, please contact your reseller to ask for the help.
Best wishes,
MSI technical support team"
and on the warrenty (stolen card) issue the answer is:
"Dear Sir,
Thank you for using MSI product. If you bought MSI product from MSI's authorized distributor, IVORY, it won't be stolen goods. If you have any question, please contact with IVORY for detail. Thank you.
Best Regards,
MSI "
Well, it looks like MSI and Ivory are selling us, the Israelies, the lesser products. They belive we do not deserve to get the same respect as the rest of the world do.
In the past I bought some computers with motherboards and vga cards made by MSI. NO MORE! I will not buy any MSI product again!

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K8N Neo Platinum users (with stable systems!): what power supply are you using?
Please post its specs, namely the 12V rail.
Thanks!
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Mr Woo- I think the question we should all be asking is who is using a high end PSU (30ish 12v amps) and also getting stability problems.
sorry mr woo This thread has been set up by k3nt to acess a specific prob he's having.
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what PSU are you using?
K8N Neo Platinum users (with stable systems!): what power supply are you using?
Please post its specs, namely the 12V rail.
Thanks!
EDIT: Users with a 6800 ESPECIALLY please post! =)
and
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I might be having to replace my Antec Truepower 480. Apparently its 22A on 12V rail is questionable considering my system? See my specs below in sig.
I feel if the thread was as u suggested would just be a mirror of this one
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What PSU to use

Hi Everyone I'm a newbie
I have a -
K9N Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 5000+ Dual Core Skt AM2
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2 Maxtor Sata11 300gb Drives
1 Maxtor Sata1 200gb Drive
Can someone please let me know what would be the best PSU to use on my system.
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Halo!
I bought MSI P7N2 Diamond and set it witch PSU Silver Power 850W.
I would like to ask you whether the value of V is normal. Especially at +12 Vol.
The voltage values read in Bios.Bios version 1.1 and something here does not agree.
System is not stable sometimes hangs..
Please help. The power supply is new but I have concerns about the power supply,
because this is the first one of the 5 motherboards which worked in this configuration..
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ELECTRICAL PARAMETER
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AC-Input 100 - 240 VAC; 60/50 Hz 12/7A Active PFC
DC-Output +3.3 V +5 V +12 V1 +12 V2 +12 V3 +12 V4 -12 V 5 Vsb
Max. Amps 24 A 28 A 20 A 20 A 20 A 20 A 0.8 A 3 A
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Total Power 850 W
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+3.3 V     3.26 V
+5 V     5.01 V
+12 V    2.64 V
+3.3 V Standby   3.30 V
VBAT Battery   3.06 V
GPU Vcc     3.21 V
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MSI P7N2 Diamond (MS-7523)
DIMM1: G Skill F3-10666CL7-1GBPI
DIMM2: G Skill F3-10666CL7-1GBPI
HyperTransport     200.0 MHz
PCI     33.3 MHz
PCI Express     100.0 MHz
MAC PHY     125.0 MHz
SATA PHY     100.0 MHz
Audio/Modem Codec 24.6 MHz
USB2 Controller     48.0 MHz
PIT / ACPI Timer     14.3 MHz
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Video Adapter   XFX GeForce GTX 285
BIOS Version   62.00.45.00.30
GPU Code Name   GT200b
Bus Type   PCI Express 2.0 x16 @ x16
Memory Size   1 GB
GPU Clock (Geometric Domain)   691 MHz (original: 690 MHz)
GPU Clock (Shader Domain)     1548 MHz (original: 1552 MHz)
RAMDAC Clock   400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines   32
TMU Per Pipeline   1
Unified Shaders   240 (v4.0)
DirectX Hardware Support   DirectX v10
Pixel Fillrate     22112 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate   82920 MTexel/s
Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type   GDDR3
Bus Width     512-bit
Real Clock     1296 MHz (DDR) (original: 1300 MHz)
Effective Clock 2592 MHz
Bandwidth     162.0 GB/s

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+3.3 V 3.26 V
+5 V 5.01 V
+12 V 2.64 V
+3.3 V Standby 3.30 V
VBAT Battery 3.06 V
GPU Vcc 3.21 V
various win programs show the same value
i dont have anything else
Quote from: Mike on 28-July-09, 01:16:12
If it really was 2.64V on the +12V rail, your MOBO wouldn't even post. That reading is a wrong reading. What are you using to check the voltages? What is shown in the BIOS?
i really had serious problems .Two A..S Striker 2 Extreme down ,2 MSI P7N2 diamond mobo down {[3 x ( start,5sec -> freze)] and no post anymore} And suddenly the third P7N2 Diamond working.
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It was working fine... now its not... from what i can hear windows is booting up normally. i then put in another video card, it works fine boots up normal
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