How can you tell if your Video card isn't getting enough power?

**Monkeee** · 01-22-2005, 09:40 AM

how would you know if your video card isn't getting enough power supply? just wondering

**tesco** · 01-22-2005, 02:37 PM

you'd probably get a lot of computer lockups\freezing and artifacts in games.

**Monkeee** · 01-22-2005, 06:06 PM

what are artifacts?

**Peerzy** · 01-22-2005, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Monkeee

what are artifacts?

www.google.com + graphics card artifacts = Answer

**Monkeee** · 01-22-2005, 06:11 PM

i did that

**tesco** · 01-22-2005, 07:10 PM

it's random colors and lines and other crap appearing on the screen.

here's one example but there's lots of other kinds of artifacting: http://www.webslingerz.com/eyepopper.../artifacts.jpg

it's basically things apearing on the screen that shouldn't be there.