PCI-express cards

[cheyannecool]

Narrowed it down to...X850XT....GeForce 6800GS...X800GTO2....GeForce 7600GT.....All I have is a 300 watt power supply...will these work? If not how do I improve my watts? I do not want to overclock just the basic package for the card....Which 4 of these are better? thanks

 

[Fuse]

There is a heated debate over which card is the best. My suggestion is to spend money on a 450+watt PS first, then my pic on the card would be the 7600GT.

Get the PS first though.

 

[jap0nes]

depending on what you got connected to you 300w, i guess any card will work... if it's a good power supply
as for the card, i would go for the 7600GT too

 

[cleeve]

Definitely either the X850 XT or 7600 GT.

Another vote for a better PSU.

 

[Fuse]

depending on what you got connected to you 300w, i guess any card will work... if it's a good power supply
as for the card, i would go for the 7600GT too

I guess this is a point to make. If all you have connected is a processor (depending on what you have), the vid card, a HD and a CD you'll be ok.

In my case, I have a P4 3.2gh, 4 512mb of ram, 5 hard drives on either SATA or gigaraid, a CD-RW, a DVD-RW, a removable HD rack with fan controler, a 4 position temp reader/display with 4 fan controler (cool drive 4), a 7800GS Overclocked spitting out to two monitors, and including the CPU and GPU I have 6 fans (2 of which are almost always off).

yeah, my rig would cry if I put a 300w on it.

 

[jap0nes]

that's why i said it depends...

 

[Fuse]

that's why i said it depends...

Which is why I agreed and elaborated.


(TAG, Your it!)

 

[jap0nes]

oh, ok... i thought you were being ironic when you said about having only cpu, video card and cd
it's hard to find someone minimalistic (i am, actually) at this forum, so i thought it was some kind of joke