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Originally Posted by Skybird
The new graphic card (nVidia 6800) needs more power than the AC can provide. It is a 350W device.
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I have a 6800gt card which is essentially the same as yours. Before I bought it a couple of years ago I had a look on somewhere like toms hardware gude for a review. I seem to recall it being mentioned that the card required at least a 400w psu to run correctly without risk of crashing.
If the motherboard cannot get enough power due to the graphics card hogging all the juice, could that cause your machine to crash?
Worth a shot maybe? Besides, you can never have too mahoosive a power supply :p
I wouldn't have thought you could get a serious temperature issue with the side of the case off... but having said that
what's the manufacturers operating temp for the cpu?
My case has 2 120mm case fans at ~ 3000rpm and an 80mm cpu cooler at 5500rpm. Recently it has been pretty hot here, hotest so far this year, and current temperatures are: case-36c cpu-56c which is a little above average for my machine due to it being gernerally hot.
Maybe not relevent, but how old is the 'backup' battery on your motherboard?