dell psu + 6800gt

[hk1978]

i am going to get my bro a 6800gt for christmas. he has a dell comp(dimension 4550); p4 2.53ghz, 2x512mb ram, cd-wr, 40gb hd, floppy dr, and it's been working great. i looked at the psu and it said 250watts. i am thinking about getting a new psu for him as well but the power supplies on dell comps are bittch to take out.
1. from what i hear/read, dell power supplies are more than 250watts and can handle lots of stuff. can anyone confirm that??
2.does anyone know the dell 250watts psu can support the 6800gt?

i know some people that have 6800gt's in their shuttles and the shuttles come with 250w psu's so i am hoping that this dell psu might be able to handle a 6800gt.

please dont say "oh you need 300watts or more blah blah". i know that 300+watts is recommended but just want to know if 250watts can be sufficient enough for a 6800gt.

thx in advance.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by hk1978 on 12/11/04 10:02 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[DavidR]

I have a Dell 4600 series with a 250watt psu and I was going to upgrade my video card this christmas. I'm going to go ahead and get a 400watt psu to be sure of good performance with all my components. You're brother's computer will run it with a 250watt psu but I highly don't reccomend it, after a while of gaming the power could stutter some and drop a little causing the card to skip, his computer would probably be getting a good number of blue screens with the current psu, I would reccomend throwing in another atx psu around 350watt, you can get them for pretty cheap at something like www.newegg.com

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