6k? What is you rig or where are you buying your parts? I haven't paid more than 3k for my pc upgrades and I only upgrade once every... 5 years or so. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Nicholas Robertson-Muir <nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > The most likely culprit is the power supply itself. > There is another possibility... booting up in Linux a diagnostic splash > screen appeared. Usually that only happens when something is about to die. > There was a "display" somthingorother fail. > So it may well be graphics card. > > 6k console plays kof just fine. > 6k pc starts to chug to a standstill. (Not counting dvd drive and > casing)... on windowed mode, with background animation off. > > Sigh. > On 29 Jan 2014 22:11, "G B" <sigma.g19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Not sure how that one works, Nic. >> >> Well, as "Indian Call Centre Consultant" as "turn it off and on" again >> sounds, that would actually be a good start. Give the pc a restart to see >> if the problem persists. >> >> If you game for a while again and it does that, then your PSU may be too >> weak for prolonged gaming (which is kinda weird... that should happen from >> the beginning.. I don't know if a card draws more power the longer it is >> being used, but I suppose it also depends on how you are using it). >> >> Or you graphics card could be faulty. >> >> Or a myriad of other reasons. LOL. Sorry, just trying to pinpoint the >> error. >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Nicholas Robertson-Muir < >> nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Nope. >>> What good w ould that do? >>> >>> On 29 Jan 2014 21:06, "Donaldson, Alasdair" < >>> alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>> > Have you tried turning it off and on again? >>> > From: Nicholas Robertson-Muir [mailto:nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx] >>> > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 09:03 PM South Africa Standard Time >>> > To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> > Subject: Re: [CPT-FGC] Re: Hi >>> > >>> > >>> > Kak boring. >>> > >>> > @PC master race. >>> > 8 was playing some KOF just now, and then, all of a sudden I get a >>> message saying something along the lines of... >>> > >>> > "Your graphics card has insufficient power, changing graphics setting >>> to run slow as shit" >>> > ...and then it did thus. >>> > I was only playing KOF, had nothing else on. >>> > >>> > Ideas? >>> >>> >>