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9600 GT work with a 300w psu?

philstanbridge

philstanbridge

philstanbridge

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Maybe laughable but do you think a 300w psu with 18A on the 12+ volt line will hold enough juice? I'm only running a cheap as chips desktop here, with a 1.6 cele in a Dell system. I know the cpu will bottleneck but that isnt my main issue.
 
Depends on a couple of factors; PSU brand and the amount of of other components you have.

I'd say a 9600GT would be safe on any working 300W PSU in a pre-configured system.
 
It would have to be a very rubbish 300W to not being able to handle a 9600GT I think.

With a 1.6Ghz cel 18A is easily enough unless you have lots of other drives/cards in your case.
 
Well at the mo I've got a single hd and 2 opticals, but I could always remove one. The biggest single problem is lack of pci-e molex of course, as these power supplies don't have any standard molex, only sata power. So I'd have to get an adapter first. Interesting though - I would eventually upgrade the cpu to a dual core. The board is a Foxconn I believe. (Dell Inspiron 530).
 
hp7909 said:
The 9600GT requires the extra power connector. With that in mind I'm sceptical a 300W with 18A can handle :(
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That's right, but you can get a SATA-PCI-E adapter for a few quid which should suffice. I don't expect miracles though :D

If mrochester can run a 8800GT and a dual core from a 300 watter then I should be laughing.
 
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