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Hello, I am looking to buy a E8200 @ 2.66 For $99 and a HD 4850. What do you guys think about this? And will this PSU power it up?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182021

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You should be fine. The E8200 is fairly powerful and is good for overclocking.

Rosewill PSUs aren't that good...but that PSU should just be enough to power it.

Get a better one if you can.

Message edited by Bluescreendeath on 06-30-2009 at 06:52:38 AM

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Something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817371005

or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139008

Reply to Twoboxer

+1 for BSOD and TwoBoxer...

That Rosewill PSU is just enough but once the CPU and the Graphics card are under full load, I doubt it will be able to handle that...

But if you are looking for that $10 discount, then get this instead of that one...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182159
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182044

But again I would say that these are not the best of PSUs and better off spending extra $10-15 on the EA380 atleast...

Reply to gkay09

As already mentioned don't get that Rosewill PSU!!!. At stock speed that E8200 is perhaps a little underpowered for that 4850, but you can change that with a mild overclock and overclock it will . I say go for it, with a better PSU of course. The Antec EarthWatts 380 will be sufficient. If you plan on using crossfire latter on down the road though you will need something a little better.

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megamanx00 wrote :

. At stock speed that E8200 is perhaps a little underpowered for that 4850 (...).

No, it's not.

A fast Core 2 Duo, will not even bottleneck the fastest GPUs around. If he had 2+ GPUs, then yes it would make a difference, but that could be mostly fixed by Overclocking the crap out of that CPU.

I assume it's a single GPU, so he can pair whatever GPU he wishes to that CPU and suffer no loss whatsoever.

To the OP: You're more than fine. Enjoy that 4850.

Message edited by nightsilencer on 07-01-2009 at 03:19:41 AM

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