Now you claim that the OP must be stupid if he did not overclock his GPU, which is what you claim to be drawing too much power. Okay...

A motherboard does not draw a significant amount of power from a PSU's 12 volts rail, so are you suggesting that fans, a 7200 RPM drive, and a Bluray drive are drawing that much power? That is impossible; the OP's HDD draws an average of 6.79 watts according to Tom's Hardware, and that is probably not all on the 12 volts rail:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-3.5-desktop-hard-drive-charts/Power-Requirement-Video,1026.html

This following link shows that an optical drive consumes about 10-25 watts combined amongst the 12 volts and 5 volts rails, and I bet that the 25 were from when it was spinning; also, note that from this following link that there is no 12 volts power shown to be drawn from the motherboard:
http://www.pctechbytes.com/hardware/computer-power-comsumption/

The following link is stating that that user (jsc) from the link's motherboard drew about 1 amp from the 12 volts rail:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/275663-30-motherboard-power-consumption-watts

This post was edited by L4d on Nov 14 2011 04:28am

I use Techpowerup's reviews, for their power consumption section, which shows the card's and no others' consumption:
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_570/25.html

not going to argue with someone who doesnt know first hand
the psu must go now

same shit happend to a friend let him use my watt meter and when he got bll screen showing his vid card craping his wats were over rec n then droped aost 200

I can't understand Dan's combination of bad English and Tech Talk.

So the general consensus is that I need to beef up my CPU?

Can I get a confirmation




This post was edited by koalaofdoom on Nov 14 2011 08:07pm

Small update, running mw3 in windowed mode seems to have really helped.

Bought and installed 1000w psu. Card is overclocked by default, so

Upped the voltage a bit on the card and processor. And everything is running great. Thanks for the help guys

That PSU puts out what it is rated at, and according to Techpowerup, the custom PCB on the following card, which is factory overclocked, has lower power consumption versus a reference 570:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce%5FGTX%5F570%5FDirect%5FCu%5FII/21.html

Was the OP's CPU overclocked, too? None of this was stated to have been overclocked, so my numbers should have been close to the OP's PC.

How much power is that 570 consuming?

Also, was it the voltage increase that made it stable? Was the card overclocked too far without extra voltage?

You stated that you had added more voltage to your CPU, too, but I doubt that that would have been the cause of the black screens, as that usually gives a BSoD.

I am glad to see that this has been remedied!

This post was edited by L4d on Nov 14 2011 11:59pm

of which you helped none. again.. just go away.

How have you helped?

This was directed at the OP. I want to know if the voltage was too low, causing instability, or if the PSU lacked power. According to Techpowerup's review, it should have not been an insane amount of power, so this is something that I want to know.

Bad idea. L4D said it was cool so it must be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!