This PSU enough?
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Hey guys my wife has this psu that she got about 3 years go and still going strong.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016
I wanted to get her a nice card to upgrade from her old 9800GT that is starting to show its age. She will be playing on a 1920x1080 monitor so I was thinking of getting her this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102913.
She also has a Phenom II x2 550 unlocked to 4 cores and very slightly overclocked. We are not planning on overclocking the gpu at all. Will this PSU be enough to power the system? Would you recommend a different card? I don't want to go over $200. Thank you guys so much again for taking a look and for your responses!
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I wanted to get her a nice card to upgrade from her old 9800GT that is starting to show its age. She will be playing on a 1920x1080 monitor so I was thinking of getting her this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102913.
She also has a Phenom II x2 550 unlocked to 4 cores and very slightly overclocked. We are not planning on overclocking the gpu at all. Will this PSU be enough to power the system? Would you recommend a different card? I don't want to go over $200. Thank you guys so much again for taking a look and for your responses!
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you will be fine with that PSU, normally the Ati card use less power as the nvidia cards so i think you will have no problem. if a GPU has a 500w recommend power supply normally you will still be fine because cards still dont use that much power.
I also really recommend that card its a great card and the sapphire model is also very good. i would have gotten this card myself if i wouldn't have gotten my GTX 560 SSC.
I also really recommend that card its a great card and the sapphire model is also very good. i would have gotten this card myself if i wouldn't have gotten my GTX 560 SSC.
One of my systems has an OC'd Q9550, 4 GB RAM, a GTX260 - a card with similar power requirements to the 6870, a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard, 3 hard drives and an optical, and a Soundblaster card all powered by a Corsair 750TX.
Running 3 instances of Prime95 to load the CPU and 3DMark06 to load the GPU, it pulls 375 watts from the wall as measured by my Kill-a-Watt meter. Figuring 80% efficiency, the system pulls 300 watts from the PSU.
I would want a somewhat more powerful PSU, but I prefer to operate my power supplies at 50 - 60% load. Oh, wait. 300 watts is 60% of 500 watts.![:)]( ":)")
Running 3 instances of Prime95 to load the CPU and 3DMark06 to load the GPU, it pulls 375 watts from the wall as measured by my Kill-a-Watt meter. Figuring 80% efficiency, the system pulls 300 watts from the PSU.
I would want a somewhat more powerful PSU, but I prefer to operate my power supplies at 50 - 60% load. Oh, wait. 300 watts is 60% of 500 watts.
jsc said:
One of my systems has an OC'd Q9550, 4 GB RAM, a GTX260 - a card with similar power requirements to the 6870, a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard, 3 hard drives and an optical, and a Soundblaster card all powered by a Corsair 750TX.Running 3 instances of Prime95 to load the CPU and 3DMark06 to load the GPU, it pulls 375 watts from the wall as measured by my Kill-a-Watt meter. Figuring 80% efficiency, the system pulls 300 watts from the PSU.
I would want a somewhat more powerful PSU, but I prefer to operate my power supplies at 50 - 60% load. Oh, wait. 300 watts is 60% of 500 watts.
Lol, I take it then that you mean that the psu will be sufficient for that card?
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