HIS Radeon 9600XT

[NickZhao]

Hi!
I'm planning to get the HIS Radeon 9600XT 256 megs and I'm wondering if a 250 Watt power supply is enough. Rest of specs are:
P4 1.5Ghz, willamette
512 mb Ram-Bus (PC-800)
1x40 gig harddrive
Nvidia GeForce 2 MMX 32 megs
Creative sound blaster
1x CD drive

I'm getting the HIS because I'm planning to overclock, and it has memory heat sinks. If there is any other manutactures that have the Radeon 9600XT 256 meg with memory heat sinks, I'll go check it out.
Thanks

 

[addiarmadar]

HIS makes good Radeons but your PSU is a bit weak. I think ATI recomends 300watts ones but check ATIs website

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[cleeve]

I wouldn't use less than a 400 watt generic, or 300 watt name brand PSU, with that setup.

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[Guest]

Agree,a nd if I rember, the RDRAM does suck more juice than DDR(crash?), altough that might not be as relevant as the video card, soemthing to keep in mind.

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[HardWareBoss]

Foe a few extra buy the HIS 9800ProICEQ. A better card. Plus the 256 does not offer much on that 9600XT.

 

[Crashman]

You probably have enough power. It's a Dell, isn't it? Dell power supplies are rated at continuous output, and the draw from 9600 series cards is fairly low.

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