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What is the leftover wattage of the Dell Inspiron?

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August 17, 2014 7:16:24 PM

My dad wants me to find a video card under 100 dollars for his pre-built Dell Inspiron. I would've gone with my Buddy's old GTX 9800 except it isn't certified to work with Windows 7, it's maximum bandwidth wouldn't be fully supported and worst of all my dad only has a 300 watt PSU.

I've decided on the GT 610 (He doesn't need anything amazing.)
This is mainly because:
1. The motherboard only has one leftover PCIe 2.0 expansion slot and this card's maximum bandwidth will be supported perfectly with that.
2. It's minimum PSU requirment is a 300 watt which is exactly what my dad has. :wahoo: 

However, Although the maximum power draw is 29 watt, that still wouldn't matter because the current parts could already be using all 300 watts. Could someone please point me to where on Dell's website I can find how much wattage is left over with the current parts?

My Dad's Inspiron Service tag: 2Q3KJM1

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August 17, 2014 8:54:55 PM

That should not be a problem.

I looked up the system at Dell. Given the parts that went into the system, it should only be using about 90 watts when under full load (65 watt CPU is the important one). A floppy drive can use up to 5 watts, the DVD drive is about the same, and those 4 memory modules only take about 1.5 watts each maximum.

Even if the power supply was at the bottom of its class in efficiency, you should be able to run that and much more.

As far as left over wattage - that system will use less than 90 watts under full load, so you should have more than 200 watts to spare from the power supply.
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August 18, 2014 2:16:28 PM

wildfire707 said:
That should not be a problem.

I looked up the system at Dell. Given the parts that went into the system, it should only be using about 90 watts when under full load (65 watt CPU is the important one). A floppy drive can use up to 5 watts, the DVD drive is about the same, and those 4 memory modules only take about 1.5 watts each maximum.

Even if the power supply was at the bottom of its class in efficiency, you should be able to run that and much more.

As far as left over wattage - that system will use less than 90 watts under full load, so you should have more than 200 watts to spare from the power supply.


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