Penny saving, graphics card for this power supply

[Strepsils]

Hello all!, well currently got a cx 400w and I am seeing a gtx 465 for 130 pounds would this be able to run it or will I have to spend the monies to upgrade the psu

 

[anuraj]

I heard hat it is possible to run but I personally would upgrade the psu because I'm pretty sure that that's not much

 

[infernox]

Dont get a 465 in the first place they are worse than the 460's get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-238-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1830

and on my old system i ran a Cx400w with a 4870 and it was fine, just saying tho as i dont know the consumption for the 460s

 

[Stonedofmoo]

If that's a top quality power supply which can truely supply 400W then it should squeeze by. If it's a duffer though, or aging I doubt it will supply enough juice.

You'd be far better off getting a Geforce GTX460 with 786Mb RAM. They use far less power in idle and under load and aren't any slower. Cheaper too.

 

[RJC]

Is possible as looking at the review below the card pulls around 300w with a game and upto 360w with Fur Mark.

I would be inclined to run a 500w psu +

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3810/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-part-2-the-vendor-cards/8

 

[Strepsils]

hmmmmm going to be back to the benchmarks for me I suppose, I saw one of the PNY gtx's 465 and heard that they may unlock to a gtx 470 but on a corsair 400w that would be asking a bit too much, more about gtx 465 vs gtx 460 768mb now, opinions?

 

[anuraj]

460!!! My personall preference.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

hmmmmm going to be back to the benchmarks for me I suppose, I saw one of the PNY gtx's 465 and heard that they may unlock to a gtx 470...

Yeah we've seen people do that before in the graphics forum. However what you have to consider is if you were able to unlock your GTX465 to a GTX470, that would exacerbate your power problem even more.

Go with a GTX460 768Mb

 

[[TW]Sponge]

+1 for the 460 recommendation.