trying to upgrade a 7 year old pc. my PSU is an earthwatts ea-500d and my new graphics card is a radeon 6970. I bought the graphics card before considering the power supply, and it seems like it has the right connectors, but the manual recommends a 550 watt power supply. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me from experience if trying to run this setup is a bad idea, or if 500 watts should be enough before I go through the trouble of getting a new power supply. here's the other info about the system:
current graphics card : geforce 8600
upgraded graphics card : radeon 6970
psu : 500w earthwatts ea-500d
cpu : core 2 quad 2.5ghz (intel dp35dp board)
ram : 8gb 800mhz 4x 2gb
dvd rw optical drive
1x 500gb hard drive
This is my first post on Tom's hardware, hopefully I have followed ettiquette for the site. I have looked for similar questions, but haven't seen anything that fits my exact situation. hopefully someone out there can provide some insight. thanks!
current graphics card : geforce 8600
upgraded graphics card : radeon 6970
psu : 500w earthwatts ea-500d
cpu : core 2 quad 2.5ghz (intel dp35dp board)
ram : 8gb 800mhz 4x 2gb
dvd rw optical drive
1x 500gb hard drive
This is my first post on Tom's hardware, hopefully I have followed ettiquette for the site. I have looked for similar questions, but haven't seen anything that fits my exact situation. hopefully someone out there can provide some insight. thanks!
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