PSU too weak???

[bencho]

Hey,

Was testing a friend's gpu. His psu smoked so he wanted to check some components out. One of them was a 3870X2. I have a corsair 620. When I powered up, everything was stuttering. Fans were struggling to turn. Lasted a little bit and then went back to normal. Is the 620 not enough to handle this card? I would think that my psu is enough to handle the 3870X2 with the specs in my sig; at least be fine to make it to idle on my desktop.

 

[CruisD64]

620 is plenty to handle that card. Something else is wrong

 

[unrealsword]

My 620hx runs an hd4870x2 so I doubt that's it.

 

[bencho]

Any suggestions as to why?

 

[CruisD64]

It's possible the fried PSU took the card with it..

 

[rocketkidd777]

grab a multimeter and see what's going on at one of the molex connectors

 

[bencho]

hmm.. noticed that I didn't plug in the molex next to the red ezplug light.

 

[CruisD64]

so it works now?

 

[EquaLiZr]

well i had an enermax 620W and i was having a bitch of a time with my oc'd rig and a 4850x2 video If you are gunna use a 620, dont add anything else to it.

 

[bencho]

Nah I haven't gotten it from the kid again to test it. But I guess that should be the problem. I was planning on getting a gtx260 but my psu's display of weakness kinda scared me.