Can a 300 watt graphics card run on a 240 watt pc? Will this affect my pc's performance?

[alexisej123]

Will it run into any problems...

 

[samyakjain222]

Yes. By using a 300 watt graphics card on a 240 watt power supply may result in system not booting up. And if luckily it boots up , then it will lag a lot. You will surely notice difference .I recommend you buying a power supply greater or equal to 300 watt.

 

[bignastyid]

When overloading a psu many problems can arise like the system just shutting down, failing and damaging hardware, frying the whole rign or if it's bad enough quality (and you have some really bad luck )it could catch fire and burn the house down.

 

[samyakjain222]

When overloading a psu many problems can arise like the system just shutting down, failing and damaging hardware, frying the whole rign or if it's bad enough quality (and you have some really bad luck )it could catch fire and burn the house down.

NOOO. I am using a low profile card on 500 watt PSU . Also for your knowledge, the components pull energy, which is required by them, because it is watt. The risk is only of voltage, which is only 12 V .

 

[madmatt30]

What card ? What psu ??

There are no '300w' gpu's nowadays.
You mean a gpu where a 300w psu is recommended ?

 

[ARICH5]

ive seen 1200W psu's with 16W on the 12v. your concern is the 12v rail.

 

[Solandri]

In a build a couple years ago, I forgot to plug the 6-pin power into the Nvidia GPU (thus limiting it to the 75 Watts it could pull from the PCIe slot). Everything ran just fine - no blue screens or crashes or stutters. Just the performance of the GPU in games was a lot lower than what it should've been.

So it'll probably work, but it defeats the purpose of buying a GPU that needs that much power. If you've already ordered a more powerful PSU and are just itching to use your system before it arrives, then yeah you can probably do it. But long-term you need to match it to an appropriate PSU.

Also bear in mind that the max wattage rating of PSUs is more of a "burst" wattage. They're not designed to operate continuously producing 100% of their rated wattage. For sustained use, try to to get a PSU which produces the wattage of your system at load at 80% of the PSU's rated capacity. (Going the other way - too much PSU wattage - is not bad for your equipment. But PSU efficiency starts to nosedive below 50% load, so you're wasting electricity if you get a PSU with too high wattage.)

 

[bignastyid]

When overloading a psu many problems can arise like the system just shutting down, failing and damaging hardware, frying the whole rign or if it's bad enough quality (and you have some really bad luck )it could catch fire and burn the house down.

NOOO. I am using a low profile card on 500 watt PSU . Also for your knowledge, the components pull energy, which is required by them, because it is watt. The risk is only of voltage, which is only 12 V .

You are not making any sense. I am well aware of how a computer and it's power supply works, you seem to be the confused party here.

 

[ARICH5]

When overloading a psu many problems can arise like the system just shutting down, failing and damaging hardware, frying the whole rign or if it's bad enough quality (and you have some really bad luck )it could catch fire and burn the house down.

NOOO. I am using a low profile card on 500 watt PSU . Also for your knowledge, the components pull energy, which is required by them, because it is watt. The risk is only of voltage, which is only 12 V .

You are not making any sense. I am well aware of how a computer and it's power supply works, you seem to be the confused party here.

a psu does not ram in 500W of power to a cpu!

 

[samyakjain222]

When overloading a psu many problems can arise like the system just shutting down, failing and damaging hardware, frying the whole rign or if it's bad enough quality (and you have some really bad luck )it could catch fire and burn the house down.

NOOO. I am using a low profile card on 500 watt PSU . Also for your knowledge, the components pull energy, which is required by them, because it is watt. The risk is only of voltage, which is only 12 V .

You are not making any sense. I am well aware of how a computer and it's power supply works, you seem to be the confused party here.

a psu does not ram in 500W of power to a cpu!

AGREE. THIS IS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY, BUT COULDN'T EXPRESS MYSELF....

 

[bignastyid]

You don't need to yell(typing in all caps is considered yelling and is rather rude and against the rules herel.

I never said a psu rams 500w into a cpu. I simply listed some of the possible outcomes of overloading a psu.