Feeding my new card
 

I'm thinking about buying a new graphics card to replace my 8600GT. It's very good, but its starting to give me problems with games like ArmA 2 and Crysis.
I've been looking on stores around here and card specs on the internet, and i've found a nVidia GeForce 9600GT for 100€ (some 140$ USD). Wiki says its a bit faster than the GeForce 9800GT, and its cheaper, so i think i'll buy that.
But i have a 410W power source and i don't know if that would be enough. I don't have any power problens right now.

See what amps the card requires to run. Purchase a power supply that can push the amount of amps the card is asking for.

The store website only shows the watts needed.
This is the card on ASUS website:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...l1o&templete=2
And this is the card's page on the store's website (in spanish):
http://www.alternate.es/html/product...a=true#tecData

I have found that you need 400w in the 26 amp neighborhood. So, you just might be fine with what you got for a PSU. Can you crack open you case and see the specs on you PSU? The specs sticker is usually positioned so you can see it.

I myself would get a better psu for the future.:yep:

so whats the max you would want to pay for a GPU, and whats your other system specs.

also look at the cards realiability reports and stuff.

I myself use newegg, good to read user reviews.

The PSU sticker reads this:
+3.3v -> 22A
+5v -> 21A
+12v(1) -> 14A
+12v(2) -> 13A
-12v -> 0.6A
+5sb -> 2.5A

System specs:
ASUS M2A-VM;
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+, 2.5ghz;
nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB DDR2 (ASUS EN8600GT MAGIC);
4GB DDR2-667;
Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II);
SONY DVD RW DRU-810A;

Looking at what you have written about your PSU the 2 I have put arrows beside are what graphics cards these days are using for power. I would recommend looking for a PSU where those 2 values are around the 18+ amp area, I use an ATI HD 3850 graphics card and the PSU I use for it is a Vantec ION 2 450 watt with 20 amp on the 12volt rails. This was about the smallest PSU that was recommended for my card.

I hope this helps in some way.

Steve

I found this PSU on the same store. Its quite cheap and i think its from a decent company.
http://www.alternate.es/html/product...a=true#tecData

Doesn't seem to be all that bad looks like it has all the connectors you will need and more than enough amps on the 12 volt rails. I'm not sure as to the Dollar value of it as i'm in Australia and I think that's in Euros?

Steve

PSU - minimum 30 Amps total on the +12. I'd recommend at least 40 Amps though. This will give you the option of possibly having enough power to run dual vid cards at some point in the future.

-S

In a pinch and money lacking...what he has selected will do just nicely. :03:

I'm not so sure. A PSU isn't something you want to save money on, especially if you're gonna plug in a relatively demanding graphics card. My brothers PC started falling appart not long after putting in a new card while still running a crappy PSU. His HD was first to go, soon followed by DVD drive. :nope:

I don't have my eyes on dual cards. I could do that somewhere in the future, when i have a lot of money to spend. Anyway i need a new MB to do that because this one only has one PCIe.
Anyway, 40amps??? A standard car batterie here gives out less amps!

55 euros are 75$USD

Newegg says the card is pretty good. But it's funny because i found a complain about the size of the card, and that can give me problems. The card will fit inside my case, but barely...
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...3/PICT0003.jpg
Sorry for the bad quality of the pic

To the right you can see the main SATA drive and my backup IDE drive behind the black cable. There are also some electronic components on the MB that the card is gonna miss by the thickness of a hair.
My english sucks...