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Hello. I recently ordered and recieved a Radeon HD 4850, without looking at my power supply and under "guidance" of someone. It's a very large card and hardly fits in my case, but that's not the point. According to the instructions, it came with a cable that needed to be plugged from the card to the motherboard/power supply. Nowhere on my motherboard, is there a spot to plug it in. Second, the box says it needs a minimum of a 450w power supply, while my computer only has a 300w one. What is the cheapest way to upgrade and use the 4850? Would it be to buy a barebones and the CPU, PSU, and etc, buy a weak computer and throw the parts I have already in there; or buy a PSU, CPU, RAM, case(may not if I can fit the motherboard in), and motherboard? Specs here:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] &cc=us&pro
duct=1152517

 

I also upgraded the ram not too long ago to 3 gb, and added in a 200gb hard drive. I'd prefer to use most of the same stuff if possible, like my HDDs, and CD reader/dvd and cd writer but I'd understand about new ram, seeing as most motherboards have switched to DDr2, now.

 

This is the card I got:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102824

 

Thank you in advance.

 

EDIT:
Scratch all that, I'm a total idiot and just misread the box! I just need a PSU upgrade. If a mod would so kindly delete this post now...


Message edited by mnavarro152 on 06-25-2009 at 07:43:18 AM
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It helps to read the instructions hehe........you dont plug the video card into the mobo with a cable, you plug the power supply into the video card.

You need to find out if your HP has a standard ATX power supply, if not your screwed.

Thirdly, your cpu is so slow (single core) that video card will be severely bottlnecked. I think a HD3850?8800GT would be a better match.

If you want to keep the HD4850 then you need an upgrade.

Mobo, cpu, ram, case, psu.

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ [...] ChangeItem

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811119161

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817341016


Message edited by zipzoomflyhigh on 06-25-2009 at 08:27:02 PM
------------------------------ P965/Q6700@3.2 8MB HD4850 OC Edition
4GB Corsair XMS 800
Vista64/Win7
Fatality 550w/Antec 300
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I just went though this exact same scenario. I wound up just buying a new 500w PSU. Here's a link to amazon where I bought the unit:

http://www.amazon.com/Cooling-PPCS [...] n_edpp_url


I have a Dell Inspiron 531, and it fit in there just perfectly. No issues at all.


Message edited by unclebuck on 07-01-2009 at 11:44:03 PM
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