Well I hear the
PSU bit but Enermax hasn't let me down yet in a good many years, Enermax replaced within 4 days one that did go bang no questions. I have one PC with a 850W Galaxy in it and the Maximus has a 1000w version, I moved to Enermax after three blown Antecs (two of which fried the CPU, memory and motherboard in the process) and 2 dead Coolermasters and have no problems to report, I have used Enermax on a variety of boards - Abit IC7, AW8, AW9, Asus P5N32 (680i) and now the Maximus.
The Galaxy 1000 has the capacity to deliver a constant 12VDC @ 75 Amps 24/7 with peaks of 85 Amps being possible, if you are telling me that a graphics card wants more than that then it is time that card got redesigned. As a side issue I have read some of the issues users have had with the Galaxy, but I wonder how many of the users actually bothered to read the manual and connect it properly, the Galaxy 1000 WILL complain like a bitch if you don't draw ENOUGH power, some of the rails have minimum currents or it will alarm or even trip, you can't connect this thing in a slap hazzard manner. You can incidentally prime water cooling no problem shorting the usual pins but you had better power up a few hard drives and fans too or it will trip on you.
WARNING RANT FOLLOWS ...
The Enermax complies with EPS12V -
EPS12V Spec one of the latest ATX
PSU compliance specs that manufacturers are aware of and should be providing equipment that complies, so for nVidia or anyone else to blame the
PSU I say nutts, get off yer backside and quit this blame the other guy BS, accept for once that YOU may have a problem, a good support team will accept that they may have a problem, for me poor support is immediately spotted if their first solution is blame the other guy.
As for accepting that I as a USER need to swallow some BS that I need to start upgrading a
PSU just to run a different chipset because some comedian can't make proper allowances in his code is laughable. For nVidia or anyone else to produce equipment that does not comply with publicly available specifications such as EPS12V without some sort of warning that the equipment does not comply is NOT ACCEPTABLE!, it should not be for me as the USER to find out only when I get the damn thing out of the box and it won't work, then force me to change half my system to prove in the end that it IS the suppliers problem at huge cost to me and zero to the supplier, then to ultimately get no futher response or solution from the supplier once it is proven that it is the suppliers problem.
Personally I am not prepared to accept the nVidia position on this, nVidia should at least provide the option to turn this 'PC nanny' crap off, I don't need them telling me what I can and can't do, I am not unintelligent or an 'amatuer' user, the option SHOULD be available to turn off this garbage for those of us who want to do so, we all know the risks of clocking PC's, some of us are smart enough to know that voltages and temperatures reported by motherboards are often wildly innacurate and not to be trusted - nVidia have so far failed to make any response whatsoever.
I reserve the right to fry my PC if I choose to do so ....
RANT OVER ....
If I run without overclocks then no issues with the 'Sentinel' at all, in fact the problem seems intermittent - on some PC starts there is a Sentinel warning on other starts there isn't, so it isn't even consistent.
In the mean time I will try to track down a new
BIOS for the nVidia .... but perhaps the time is coming to investigate more energy efficient GPU's .....
nVidia System Sentinel BS on x38
I have an Enermax Galaxy DDX 1000W, power is DEFINATELY NOT a problem ... I have 2 dedicated PCI-E 12 volt feeds and both are connected to the card, voltage is solid at 12.26V (measured with multimeter).
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