PSU and 8600

2007-12-05 03:49:47

#1

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

ok i have just bought a GAINWARD GEFORCE 8600GT 1G PCIE DDR2 2DH. it arrives in the mail in about 3 days.

what im wondering is if the card will run on my crappy 305 watt PSU. i have heard that Dell understates its PSU's and that i could run a 8600GT.

but im looking to the wise all knowing BF2s community for help

if i need to ill just go shopping and buy a decent 750 Watt or something.

help plz.

2007-12-05 04:01:53

#2

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6891|Finland

hmm. that's close but it MIGHT work. Not sure tho. I have no experience with dell PSUs.
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2007-12-05 04:06:38

#3

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|7044|NYC / Hamburg

it might just work depending on what else you have in there. Easiest would of course be to just pop the gfx card in and see ...

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2007-12-05 04:11:00

#4

JaMrulezass: Member; +47|6942|Hong Kong

305 watt is most likely not enough but it might. However I have question for you, why did you get an 8600GT with 1GB of memory? No that the 8600's could even use up 256mb...

2007-12-05 04:26:47

#5

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

whats wrong with having 1 gb of memory?

2007-12-05 05:10:05

#6

Drykill: I Like Waffles.; +47|7169|England

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
whats wrong with having 1 gb of memory?

DDR2, very slow.

The box for my 8600GTS says minimum of 375W PSU. I had a cheap 500W PSU and COD4 froze a few times during game play so I reckon there wasn't enough juice coming from the PSU so I've upgraded to an OCZ 600W. Only put it in a few minutes ago so yet to test it.

I'd get a bigger PSU for sure.

2007-12-05 05:20:22

#7

']['error: Banned; +630|7121|The Netherlands

Will run fine. I had a PC with 2 gigs of ram, P4 3ghz, 7900GT, 160gb HD + 2 casefans and neon tubes, all running on a 300W PSU.

2007-12-05 05:21:58

#8

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

im wondering still... im running 2.7 Ghz dual core, 360 BG harddrive, 2Gb RAM and will be a 8600 GT on a 300 Watt

2007-12-05 05:23:10

#9

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

ill check out PSU prices tomorrow... screw it i think ill just buy one. prob around 750 watt... anyone got any idea on the price range??

2007-12-05 05:25:49

#10

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7215|The Hague, Netherlands

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
ill check out PSU prices tomorrow... screw it i think ill just buy one. prob around 750 watt... anyone got any idea on the price range??

130+ euros ( 216.204628 Australian dollars) around that I think for 750

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2007-12-05 05:29:47

#11

Shadow893: lel; +75|7169|England

I have a 400W Akasa PSU and it runs fine with XFX 8600GT, 2Gb RAM, P4 3.2Ghz and the usual others stuff.

2007-12-05 05:33:21

#12

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7215|The Hague, Netherlands

yeah you don't need 750W

I have a 600W PSU with a 8800GTX, no probs

2007-12-05 05:37:25

#13

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

ohk thanks for all the info guys

ive found the PSU im getting. picking it up tomorrow

2007-12-05 05:44:46

#14

xGj: Official lame Crysis fanboy.; +84|6848|Netherlands tbh

Wait but you have a Dell right? I hope you didnt buy the PSU yet.. they're incompatible with the motherboard from what I know.

2007-12-05 05:47:10

#15

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

wats incompatible?? how??

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2007-12-05 05:47:58

#16

xGj: Official lame Crysis fanboy.; +84|6848|Netherlands tbh

A non-dell PSU is incompatible with a dell-motherboard (just like the CPU). AFAIK

2007-12-05 05:55:25

#17

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

oh well it doesnt matter... im taking it in to a hardware dealer anyways so they can tell me... i havent bought it yet

2007-12-05 06:35:40

#18

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6674|Winland

xGj wrote:
A non-dell PSU is incompatible with a dell-motherboard (just like the CPU). AFAIK

Uhm, what? Dells don't make any changes to the processors...

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2007-12-05 09:19:11