AlienWare X51 PSU (Power Supply)

Colin Cantrell

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I just bought the X51, and it hasn't gotten to my house yet so I haven't been able to test it, But my question is, does the X51 operate normally and safely with a 330 watt power supply.

Specs: i7 4770, AMD radeon r9 270, 8GB ram, 1 Tb HDD.

I have read that the regular r9 270 requires about a 500 w PSU, but apparently they use a tweaked graphics card that allows a smaller wattage in the power supply. Can anyone help me clear this up? They wouldn't sell me something that doesn't work....
 

Jake Lloyd

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It will run fine, the issue you'll run into later on is that the PSU is a brick and is a pain to upgrade if you ever want another GPU, this is why I don't buy Dell computers, always suck to upgrade.