Minimum System Power Requirement for GeForce GT 610 Silent 1GB

mrbplus

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I've upgraded an old HP 8100 Elite Slimline PC to Windows 10. I am going to give it away to an elderly neighbour. However, there are no Win 10 drivers for the AMD HD 4550 card in the system.

I've been looking for a cheap low profile card that has Win 10 drivers and found a good price on a Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GT 610 Silent 1GB. However, the specs say that it requires a minimum system power supply of 300 watts and the PC only has a 240 watt supply.

I'm planning to replace the HDD with and SSD, which would save on power too.

I this a big deal? No gaming is likely to take place, just web browsing and MS Word.

System summary:

CPU: Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 304Ah (XU1 PROCESSOR)
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4550 (ATI)
Storage: 465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-603CA0 (SATA)
Optical Drives: hp CDDVDW TS-H653T

Appreciate your help!
 
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Ignore the recommended wattage. That GPU uses 29W maximum. I'm confident it'll run just fine. To make sure, though, as is always good to do so, could you read off to me the power supply model, or take a picture of the side of it and post it here?

Actually, the real question is why not just use the I7 built in graphics?
Ignore the recommended wattage. That GPU uses 29W maximum. I'm confident it'll run just fine. To make sure, though, as is always good to do so, could you read off to me the power supply model, or take a picture of the side of it and post it here?

Actually, the real question is why not just use the I7 built in graphics?
 
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mrbplus

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Thanks for the quick reply.

Model number is: PS-4241-9HA (HP branded)

Would the i7 graphics be able to run the monitor's native resolution of 1920X1080 via a VGA cable?