400W Xpro White Horse enough for MSI GTX 750 TI 2GB DDR5 OC edition?

Bingeljell

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Hello,

In my quest to upgrade to a better gfx card, a friend of mine has gifted me the MSI GeForce GTX 750TI 2GB DDR5 OC edition (Dual fan); The card doesn't require direct power ; while I wait for the Polaris cards to come out.

PSU: I'm currently sporting a 400W Xpro White Horse (Which I have no memory of buying...) - Link: http://www.xproworld.co.in/smps/white-horse-400w-smps.html

Pic: http://imgur.com/568kdBL

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Setup:

AMD A8-6600K - APU
F2A88XM-DS2 - mobo
4GB DDR3 @ 1600MHZ
1TB Seagate @ 7200RPM
Samsung DVD/RW

I was also gifted 8GB ram @ 1300MHZ; wondering what will happen if I throw that in to the mix.

Questions:
1) Do I need a new PSU or should this run? If I do need a new PSU, what is the cheapest alternative that I can get away with for now.
2) Can I also throw in my 8GB of ram even though the clock speed is different? Will there be an issue?

Many thanks.
 
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They say not to look a gift horse in the mouth... but I would not feel confident riding that horse until it gets a thorough medical exam through every orifice.

Usually, if you have a hard time finding information about a power supply, it is re-branded junk potentially worthy of "tier six" on the PSU list.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Unfortunately for you, good PSUs + India = expensive. If you can find anything from tier one or two from the list above at a price you can live with, go for that. What is in tier three should still be leagues ahead of whatever "White Horse" is if you need to go there to find something within your price range.

kasol kay

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With RAM it's usually a gamble whether it will work like that or not since it's not rated to do so. On the bright side the GTX 750 TI is rated to work with even the the * 350W PSU's so it's not much of a risk. Good luck :3
 

Bingeljell

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Thanks for the responses; Is there any way to get a sense of how reliable the PSU is? And if the info in the pic attached isn't particularly helpful at that, what's the cheapest alternative option that would be any good?

Also with regards to the RAM: Is it better to just use the 8GB@1300MHZ stick instead of the 4GB@1600mhz stick? A quick skim through google searches shows that for gaming the 8GB @ 1300mhz is probably a better choice?



 

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They say not to look a gift horse in the mouth... but I would not feel confident riding that horse until it gets a thorough medical exam through every orifice.

Usually, if you have a hard time finding information about a power supply, it is re-branded junk potentially worthy of "tier six" on the PSU list.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Unfortunately for you, good PSUs + India = expensive. If you can find anything from tier one or two from the list above at a price you can live with, go for that. What is in tier three should still be leagues ahead of whatever "White Horse" is if you need to go there to find something within your price range.
 
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Bingeljell

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The Antec VP series are decent quality PSUs. Not great, and no 80+ certification due to lack of PFC, but they are a reasonable choice when you don't want to spend much to get a PC going again or as a replacement for a much more questionable quality unit.

I put a VP450 in one of my old PCs a few years ago when its previous PSU quit working, haven't had any issues with it yet.
 

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