asus cm1745 with a8-5500 and f2a85-m motherboard

[davidchanc]

I just bought a computer asus cm1745 with a8-5500 and f2a85-motherboard. it have a onboard gpu AMD Radeon HD 7560D. 6 gb ddr3 1600 memory. apu 350w. question? I need a better Graphics card if I change the apu to 500w can I put a asus 600 GTX graphics card??

 

[Darkbreeze]

Do you mean if you change the PSU? The APU is the processor.

 

[Darkbreeze]

And yes, a 500w PSU is plenty for that card. All ASUS 600 series cards call for 300-375W PSU so 500 is more than enough. You don't want just any PSU though. It needs to be at least a Tier 3, preferably Tier 2A or higher unit.

PSU Tier list:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

 

[Darkbreeze]

Are you talking ASUS GT or GTX and which model?

 

[davidchanc]

Are you talking ASUS GT or GTX and which model?

ASUS GTX660-DC2O-2GD5 G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

PC Power and Cooling Silencer PPCS500 500W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI CrossFire 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply compatible with core i7

that the GPU I want and the power supply I have

 

[Darkbreeze]

Considering that the measured GPU power consumption in full stress, as seen at the following link, is only 238W, plus what the rest of the system needs, 500w should be just about right. Maybe go with a really good 550w just to be safe.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-geforce-gtx-660-directcu-ii-top-review,7.html


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Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($62.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $62.98
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[davidchanc]

thank a lot now just need to wait for the GPU to go on sale and buy that baby home!!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Actually, it looks like the PC Power unit is pretty decent.

 

[davidchanc]

that computer is build by my friend like 7 years ago MOBO still using DDR2 lol.
good to know that I can still using back the power supply I think this is a good buy from my end if I can just buy a GPU GTX660 for $170 after RB and CM1745 for $330 RB. just right about $500 I could be playing most of the game out there

 

[Darkbreeze]

That's not possible, the A8-5500 was first released on Oct. 1, 2012. It could only be 2 years old at the most as seen here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

And the APU specs indicate DDR3-1866 is the supported memory speed. The specs for that motherboard also only show DDR3 support.

What that means is that indeed, you might have a fairly decent budget system there to play with.

 

[davidchanc]

That's not possible, the A8-5500 was first released on Oct. 1, 2012. It could only be 2 years old at the most as seen here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

And the APU specs indicate DDR3-1866 is the supported memory speed. The specs for that motherboard also only show DDR3 support.

What that means is that indeed, you might have a fairly decent budget system there to play with.

i have 2 computer there one 7 years old and CM1745 i just bought like one month ago.
the older one is a custum build from my friend with a power supply 500W dont know what the motherboard is but i have taken out the memory out to look at is a DDR2 so if i need to fix it to work it basicly buying the computer new.
to make it easy for me i find something from newegg that is already make and cheap hope it will work great. dont make me wrong that computer work great just not powerful enough for me so i start to looking to what kind of way i can upgrade it. i have read some forum there is someone like me try to upgrade it too. i do some reseach and find out what the motherboard is CM1745 also what kind of GPU can be use. i see it could support even more powerful GPU but i dont think my CPU is good enough for it so just pick something like work great and cheap.

there is other post say can just add a GTX 750 TI in my computer without changing the power supply. why put a good 500W power supply a side if i could put it to work.

 

[davidchanc]

update!! i have bought the EVGA 660 p4-3063 to my CM1745 and it run find the first day took me like 4 hours to put it there but in the end it work. there is other post with my problem whit the black screen.