- Jul 31, 2013
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Basically, my friend in Sweden wants some help picking a graphics card, because his GT 620 is a crap piece, and lags along at 30FPS when he plays games like Chivalry, Arma, Skyrim on the lowest settings.
His computer is HP and it has a 300w HP PSU which provides a 16a 12v rail to his motherboard, with no extra power cables for a card that requires more power than the PCI can provide, not that the PSU could handle a really powerful card anyway.
So I was looking at the Sapphire AMD 7730 1gb GDDR5 graphics card for him, it fits his budget, it's performance is a big step up and it isn't power hungry. But I don't know if a 16a 12v rail provides enough power for it, that's my ultimate question. I heard a 7750 really requires a 19a 12v rail.
It's worth noting that his PC has an Intel I3 2120 CPU, so it doesn't use much power, leaving enough for a PCI powered graphics card I think.
Thank you for your time.
His computer is HP and it has a 300w HP PSU which provides a 16a 12v rail to his motherboard, with no extra power cables for a card that requires more power than the PCI can provide, not that the PSU could handle a really powerful card anyway.
So I was looking at the Sapphire AMD 7730 1gb GDDR5 graphics card for him, it fits his budget, it's performance is a big step up and it isn't power hungry. But I don't know if a 16a 12v rail provides enough power for it, that's my ultimate question. I heard a 7750 really requires a 19a 12v rail.
It's worth noting that his PC has an Intel I3 2120 CPU, so it doesn't use much power, leaving enough for a PCI powered graphics card I think.
Thank you for your time.
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