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I'm trying to revive my old Acer Aspire SFF. MB - Acer MCP73T-AD. Changed processor to Xeon X3350 (from E2200), installed 2X2GB Kingston memory (From 1GB). 160GB HDD and removed DVD. Now, about video card. PSU is only 220W LiteOn Pe-5221-08. Max. 14Amps on 12V Rail. GPU - GeForce G100, but I'm think changing to GeForce GT 710 or GT 620, can this PSU handle it? Or any other suggestions?

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Not exactly a stellar psu, even in the 200w range. It's one of the not-so-good OEM psu's companies throw into a pc just to get rid of it. If you read the rest of the sticker, it also says 5v and 3.3v not to exceed 80w (13A and 14A rails) and every rail added not to exceed 220w. So realistically you are looking at a 12v output much closer to @140-150w at best, since the pc will be using the 5v, 5v vsb, 3.3v rails as well.

That's going to mean the gt1030 is going to be the only viable option, since anything more than 30w is going to put a serious strain on the psu. If you want anything with more horsepower than the older gt710-730 that is.
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A GT 1030/GT 730 GDDR5/GT 710/GT 630 (kepler) should work with your PSU. Also many YouTubers tried to run a GTX 1050 TI (75watt) on a 240W PSU and it works. However i wouldn't recommend that.

Is this PC for gaming purposes?
 
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That's only 164W total available on the 12V rail.

Considering the 95W just for the X3350, that leaves 69 watts remaining for EVERYTHING else. Motherboard, RAM, fans, hard drive, etc.

Maybe the GT1030 (30W) or something with an equal or lesser power envelope.

I have a Dell Inspiron Small Desktop with a 220W PSU, but it had 18A on the 12V rail (216W total), and I was running a Pentium G3220, a 53W processor. I used an R7 250E, which had a power draw of 55W.

As budgetgamer states, and I agree, I wouldn't gamble the GTX 750 (55W) or GTX 750Ti (60W) on it. It will almost definitely kill it in short order. I would've gone for a 750 on my own system if there was a low-profile, single-slot-height-cooler version, but there weren't any.

Are you looking to upgrade for gaming purposes? It's going to be hard to get much from it with the PSU it has.
 
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GT 1030 DDR5 version, it's the fastest card with the lowest power demands you can get. The only slight risk is that the newer card doesn't get along with your older motherboard. Fortunately, as far as I know, Acer has a mostly good reputation for not being as locked as some other computers.
 
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Not exactly a stellar psu, even in the 200w range. It's one of the not-so-good OEM psu's companies throw into a pc just to get rid of it. If you read the rest of the sticker, it also says 5v and 3.3v not to exceed 80w (13A and 14A rails) and every rail added not to exceed 220w. So realistically you are looking at a 12v output much closer to @140-150w at best, since the pc will be using the 5v, 5v vsb, 3.3v rails as well.

That's going to mean the gt1030 is going to be the only viable option, since anything more than 30w is going to put a serious strain on the psu. If you want anything with more horsepower than the older gt710-730 that is.
 
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