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GodfatherScar   06-12-2009 at 11:55:49 PM

well i want a 4890, and i tried to figure out what the power supply requirement is "seeing as newegg does not want to say" and i heard that some people, depending on the age of their power supply, could use it well with 500w........my rig is a core 2 duo at 3ghz, the 500w thermaltake psu, 4 120mm fans, 1 200mm fan, blue sound activated lighting, a 9600gt, and 2 gigs of ram.....here are the links to the card and the psu.....sadly, im 40 bucks shy of getting a new psu, which would make things a lot easier


4890
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814161276
psu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817153052


all i need to know is if it will work correctly....NO FLAMING!

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Kari   06-13-2009 at 12:00:26 AM
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] html#sect0
4890 uses around 120W at most, so your psu is just fine

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GodfatherScar   06-13-2009 at 12:04:44 AM
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even with all the extra crap i have?

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ssguy24   06-13-2009 at 12:08:23 AM
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Im curious about the sound activated lighting you have, link/xplanation? sounds sick

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Kari   06-13-2009 at 12:21:14 AM
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yep, unless you have some grazy RAID setup with twenty drives or really high power lighting system that lights up the whole house... lol

'sound activated' sounds cool, does it pulse in the rythm of music

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GodfatherScar   06-13-2009 at 12:41:09 AM
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it is made by a company, cant remember the name, but they give you 2 12" light bars with velcro stickers that you place wherever, then you put the sound module "sold if you buy a combo" somewhere that it can easily pick up the sound of your speakers (i unscrewed the backing, put it in an epansion drive using a large drive to small drive panel and re-screwed and now its on the front, sadly though, there is an annoying square space that the module didn't take up) but it has a sensitivity dial and an off, on, sound ctrl, and flash settings

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ssguy24   06-13-2009 at 01:13:50 AM
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GodfatherScar wrote :

it is made by a company, cant remember the name, but they give you 2 12" light bars with velcro stickers that you place wherever, then you put the sound module "sold if you buy a combo" somewhere that it can easily pick up the sound of your speakers (i unscrewed the backing, put it in an epansion drive using a large drive to small drive panel and re-screwed and now its on the front, sadly though, there is an annoying square space that the module didn't take up) but it has a sensitivity dial and an off, on, sound ctrl, and flash settings



Sounds really cool actually

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AMG   06-13-2009 at 02:40:30 PM
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I would get a 550watt corsiar tbh lol consdering that "stuff"

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