From 9600gt to hd 7750

[eduart]

I have a 9600gt and i'm thinkin to upgrade to an ati hd 7750. My problem is the psu, can a 300watt psu handle it? The psu's name is lite-on and it's on an hp computer. It has 19 A from +12v. And what about the hd 6750-6770?

 

[zhihao50]

Can you post your system spec?

not likely given the age of PSU,psu degrades as it ages and looses performance.

it will depend on whats your system's age and other components (eg CPU). 19*12=228W. 7750 uses 45W max, so it will be depended on how much CPU uses.

 

[eduart]

Thank you fof answering. My specs are:
CPU-AMD athlon 64 x 2 5000+
Mainboard-
MCP61PM-HM (Nettle3)
RAM-3 gb ddr2
Hard Disk-300gb 7200rp
Scheda Video-9600gt
Monitor
hp w1907v (Wide 1440x900)
Alimentatore
lite-on 300watt
Sistema Operativo
windows vista 32

 

[americanbrian]

I would recommend the 6850 as it is a superior card for about the same price.

However, that would probably necessitate a PSU change... The 7750 is much lower power, and doesn't need a aux power.

Having a look at anandtech charts you should get a respectable boost (compare a 2012 bench radeon 3870 and 7750, the 3870 is almost exactly equivalent to a 9600gt).

Your power supply is probably fine for that as the 3870 typically uses less than the 9600gt (http://www.techspot.com/article/88-geforce-9600gt-versus-radeon-hd3870/page9.html) and the 7750 uses less again...

 

[americanbrian]

Ahh, I didn't read the spec you posted before answering... For the low resolution of your monitor the 7750 will be absolutely fine.

 

[eduart]

Thank you guys for the help !!! maybe i wait for the hd 7750 when the price goes down a little bit.

 

[spp85]

I have a 9600gt and i'm thinkin to upgrade to an ati hd 7750. My problem is the psu, can a 300watt psu handle it? The psu's name is lite-on and it's on an hp computer. It has 19 A from +12v. And what about the hd 6750-6770?

Normaly branded PC's comes with good quality PSU's in your case you have been using 9600gt for some time and if that card didn't caused any trouble with your 300w PSU you are perfectly fine with a Radeon 7750 GPU because the 28nm Radeon 7750 consumes only 55 W where as the older Geforce sucks around 95w. In my opinion you may go with a Radeon HD 7770 still it consumes less power (around 80w) than your 9600GT.

 

[jyjjy]

There were two versions of the 9600GT. He most likely was not using the older 95w card.

 

[eduart]

I use the 9600 gt Zotac 512 mb. I dont know the 2 versions of 9600 gt.

 

[jyjjy]

The original version has a 6 pin PCI-E connector. The newer version does not and uses significantly less power. Also the original version did not actually use 95w under normal usage, that's just the TDP.

 

[eduart]

My video card uses a 6 pin connector. Maybe is the old one.

 

[eduart]

So, my psu can handle an hd 7750 ?

 

[jyjjy]

Yeah, sure. I would avoid the 7770 though.

 

[eduart]

Thank you for helping me !!!

 

[eduart]

Maybe my problem is the cpu, with an AMD athlon 64 x 2 5000+ maybe i will be cpu limited.

 

[ketxorange]

Hello guys, i'm in the same page with eduart, my old card is 9600gt and i am looking for a replacement to upgrade my gpu as well.

My current spec is around 2years+ of age, ecs G31T-M7 motherboard, 4gb ram, with 500w psu.

I'm now considering to get either HD6770 or HD7750. Which one should I go for? I'm more into HD6770 but i'm afraid my PSU can't coupe with the high power consumption from that card :s