Hi there, thanks for reading my post. I ‘m in the process of upgrading my computer and have two questions that I hope someone could help me with. I plan on getting this motherboard this processor and this graphics card. I already have 2gigs of ram which I plan to double to 4 gigs. I’m using the Corsair XMS2 brand of memory. My first question is pretty simple.
1.] Can the graphics card linked above even fit onto the motherboard linked above?
I ask this question because the graphics card that I linked to above is pretty freakin huge and I’m concerned that it wont fit on the motherboard because of the position of the Southbridge. If you look at this picture, you’ll notice that the Southbridge is right next to the PCI-e slot and that it sort of sticks out. This makes me think that the card wont fit, but I’m not sure.
Second question
2.] Will my power supply do the job?
My current machine uses a Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 which I plan to reuse in the new build since it is only 1.5 years old and still going strong. The issue though is what seems to be a discrepancy in the amperage that will make a huge difference. On the Newegg site, it says that this PSU only has 35amps of total power from the two 12V rails (which is less than the 36 amps recommended for the GFX card). However, when I actually open my computer up and look at the label on the PSU, it says +12v1 with 19A under it and +12v2 with 19A under it which should be 38amps right? I don’t really understand the whole watts/amps thing, so any info in straight English would be greatly appreciated.
Everything else in the machine is very standard, only one hard drive, a pretty standard sound card, one standard issue DVD reader/writer. Nothing fancy or power hungry.
Thanks in advance for any information.
1.] Can the graphics card linked above even fit onto the motherboard linked above?
I ask this question because the graphics card that I linked to above is pretty freakin huge and I’m concerned that it wont fit on the motherboard because of the position of the Southbridge. If you look at this picture, you’ll notice that the Southbridge is right next to the PCI-e slot and that it sort of sticks out. This makes me think that the card wont fit, but I’m not sure.
Second question
2.] Will my power supply do the job?
My current machine uses a Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 which I plan to reuse in the new build since it is only 1.5 years old and still going strong. The issue though is what seems to be a discrepancy in the amperage that will make a huge difference. On the Newegg site, it says that this PSU only has 35amps of total power from the two 12V rails (which is less than the 36 amps recommended for the GFX card). However, when I actually open my computer up and look at the label on the PSU, it says +12v1 with 19A under it and +12v2 with 19A under it which should be 38amps right? I don’t really understand the whole watts/amps thing, so any info in straight English would be greatly appreciated.
Everything else in the machine is very standard, only one hard drive, a pretty standard sound card, one standard issue DVD reader/writer. Nothing fancy or power hungry.
Thanks in advance for any information.
The only thing that is important is the total max 12 volt power available.
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