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BFG Tech 6800 U Low Power Error. Suggestions?

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Xyrax

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Every once in a while (about once or twice a month) I receive the nVidia error that my GPU is lowered in speed due to insufficient power. I have the Enermax Noisetaker 600W PSU. It has 2 independant 12 volt rails with plenty of amperage and I'm pretty sure both power connectors are plugged into seperate rails. Has anyone else experienced this? My system specs are:

MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
A64 3500+ Winchester (no OC yet)
2x Corsair TwinX XMS PC3200 LL DIMMS
BFG Tech 6800 Ultra OC
Audigy 2
1 Seagate IDE HDD
1 Maxtor SATA HDD
1 CDRW Drive
4 80mm fans
1 92mm Panaflo fan on an XP-90 HS
2x 12 inch UV CCFL's
2x 4 inch UV CCFL's

Is my PSU defective? It's not even a year old yet so I'm hoping it's not. The fans are regular fans (no high output types that could draw more than average power).

Does anyone have any ideas?

TYI
 
What are the 12V rails like?

And MAKE sure that the card has two different rails pluged into it.

Its kinda hard to test, because you only get the error like once a month.
 
Try looping some 3D Mark and Prime 95 for a few hours (maybe even add something that reads/writes to the HDD) and see if the error comes up.
 
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