- Sep 24, 2016
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The rig I built back in 2008 died on me a few days ago. I needed a emergency computer so I bought a Dell Inspiron (oh man!). It is a 3650 i3 with 8gigs of RAM and a 1 Terabyte hard-drive. It has one PCIex16 slot on the board. I want to put my PNY GT 740 in this machine because the on-board graphics are horrible.
Problem is, I doubt the psu is very powerful. GPU makers tend to pad the specifications and recommend more power then their cards actually need. I believe the psu in this machine is a 240w model and proprietary. The computer has a DVD/CD/RW drive, mouse, keyboard, four 2.0 USBs and two 3.0 USBs. Integrated Sound card, etc.
The PNY GT 740 is powered by the PCI slot, no power connector and it is the 2GB DDR3 version.
Think the PSU will handle it?
Thanks.
Problem is, I doubt the psu is very powerful. GPU makers tend to pad the specifications and recommend more power then their cards actually need. I believe the psu in this machine is a 240w model and proprietary. The computer has a DVD/CD/RW drive, mouse, keyboard, four 2.0 USBs and two 3.0 USBs. Integrated Sound card, etc.
The PNY GT 740 is powered by the PCI slot, no power connector and it is the 2GB DDR3 version.
Think the PSU will handle it?
Thanks.
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