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Well, you may be surprised that I knew where Colima was, but I have never heard of an Operating system by that name.
But, Layback Bear was correct. It appears to be a GPU issue. The first place to look is the PSU.
It appears that Umax may be made by Ambry which makes the PSUs for Dell, Compaq, HP and IBM.
http://www.ambry.com/manufacturer/umax-parts-0.html
http://www.ambry.com/dell-category/p...upplies-0.html
Last edited by essenbe; 26 May 2014 at 11:43.
Thanks Archie I had no idea of what that meant perhaps I am just dumb?? now it remains to find what power supply he has if we had specs on it maybe it would answer a few problems re enough supply or not .
Now if the OP is still viewing as I don't know what time it is there another way of getting the lowdown on what that PSU is to run HW Info http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
run it close the right hand window and in the left hand window click the + on the power supply stuff and open it out see my pic for an example but unfortunately I am on my laptop right now and it will be different on the desktop.
Here is a quote from someone at Tom's Hardware. I have no idea of the accuracy.
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Yes essenbe those posts I saw were along those lines a lot asking if they were powerful enough to drive certain GPPU's and the like. A lot of what I looked at mentioned power ratings around 400 watts and quoting some hefty GPU's they wanted to run.
I'm sorry guys but I don't know why my pc detects I have that PSU, I currently have a Corsair GS800. And sorry about the Colima thing, got kind of confused there. A thing I also forgot to say is that I will get a lot of artifacting and visual glitches around 10 seconds before this happens.
The average temp I get while playing is 50C.
Edit: Right now I got artifacting and it is 60C.
Last edited by Fuzwipper; 26 May 2014 at 18:49.
Do you happen to have another card or a friend you can borrow one from, just to test it? 50C is nothing to a GPU card. So, it seems to me that it boils gown to a bad card, bad PSU or bad motherboard. So, the trick is determining which. One way would be to switch a similar card between computers. You could see if your card did the same thing in another computer and how the other card did in your computer. That would answer a lot of questions. It would be best if the cards have a similar power draw and both computers had a sufficient PSU.