Hi everyone!
I have a slight doubt and I wonder if you guys have any experiencing on this:
I have a Corsair HX450w 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (Professional Series, 7 year warranty), and currently I'm using a Gigabyte 8800GT 512MB Turboforce Editon graphics card (factory overclocked from 600Mhz to 700 Mhz, shaders from 1500 to 1715Mhz, memory only up to 1840Mhz from 1800) and I am thinking of upgrading to a Radeon HD 5850.
I know that ATI recommends a minimum of a 500w power supply for this card, but then again they take into account that people may have lots of add-on cards and peripherals connected or factor in those who buy cheaper, lower quality PSU's.
My PSU has a single 12v rail with a 33A rating and 2 PCie 8Pin/6Pin connectors, so I think it can do it, but I haven't found what Amperage the Radeon needs, so I'm not entirely sure.
The stock clocked 8800GT has a TDP of 110w, since mine has a very decent GPU overclock, I would figure it is probably somewhat higher (tweaktown review confirms, not more than 10w). That is not a huge difference to the HD5850's 151w, but again, the Amperage is the only thing that I'm left thinking about.
What do you guys think ?
The rest of the system is frugal:
MB: gigabyte EP45-UD3LR
Ram: 4GB Corsair XMS2 DHX DDR2 800 DC (stock clocks)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 (E0 revision) (stock clocks)
HDD: WD Caviar Black 500GB
Sony Opticarc DVD-RW Lightscribe drive
Multi card reader
Floppy Drive (yes, indeed, have a lot of oldies to backup heheh)
Avermedia TV tuner
Thanks!
I have a slight doubt and I wonder if you guys have any experiencing on this:
I have a Corsair HX450w 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (Professional Series, 7 year warranty), and currently I'm using a Gigabyte 8800GT 512MB Turboforce Editon graphics card (factory overclocked from 600Mhz to 700 Mhz, shaders from 1500 to 1715Mhz, memory only up to 1840Mhz from 1800) and I am thinking of upgrading to a Radeon HD 5850.
I know that ATI recommends a minimum of a 500w power supply for this card, but then again they take into account that people may have lots of add-on cards and peripherals connected or factor in those who buy cheaper, lower quality PSU's.
My PSU has a single 12v rail with a 33A rating and 2 PCie 8Pin/6Pin connectors, so I think it can do it, but I haven't found what Amperage the Radeon needs, so I'm not entirely sure.
The stock clocked 8800GT has a TDP of 110w, since mine has a very decent GPU overclock, I would figure it is probably somewhat higher (tweaktown review confirms, not more than 10w). That is not a huge difference to the HD5850's 151w, but again, the Amperage is the only thing that I'm left thinking about.
What do you guys think ?
The rest of the system is frugal:
MB: gigabyte EP45-UD3LR
Ram: 4GB Corsair XMS2 DHX DDR2 800 DC (stock clocks)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 (E0 revision) (stock clocks)
HDD: WD Caviar Black 500GB
Sony Opticarc DVD-RW Lightscribe drive
Multi card reader
Floppy Drive (yes, indeed, have a lot of oldies to backup heheh)
Avermedia TV tuner
Thanks!