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7600 GT Power Consumption

jdk

jdk

jdk

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I have just received on of these cards from Overclockers and am wondering if my PSU will be able to cope with it, I have an XPC Shuttle with 250w PSU and it says in the system requirements for the card it needs 350w.

Do think it will run ok? Shuttle dont even do a 350w PSU, highest is 300w as far as i know :confused:
 
Yea it will be fine. Shuttle PSU's are extremely stable and powerful even if the W seems less than you need.
 
What driver are you running and what chip-set is the motherboard.

May be worth just trying the 91.47 drivers, latest release form nVidia.
 
New drivers not worked still got little flickery bits, my motherboard details are

FT20 (proprietary)

ATi RADEON XPRESS 200 + ULi 1573 chipset

1GHz HyperTransport enhanced System Bus (2000MT/s)

(1) 32-bit PCI slot
 
I believe that my POS 330W PSU from Dell is letting me down with this card too. I'm getting occasional artefacts and other small problems. I have the card overclocked and I have quite a few components in my PC so I'm guessing the PSU is letting it all down. Luckily I have a new case and PSU ready so just waiting for the new motherboard to arrive sometime this week. Maybe even today :D
 
hold on. your saying your gettings artifacts, and you say you have the card overclocked.... hmmm

this is just an idea, if you put your card lets say, back to stock speeds, do you still get artifacts?
 
When do you get the flickering, just sitting in windows, when watching movies, gaming, benchmarking etc?

For example, my new computer is using 126W(at the wall) right now, and im reading the forums, while running Everquest2's patch program. My Seasonic PSU is around 80% efficient, so the computer parts are drawing around 100W from the PSU.

Running Everquest2, fullscreen @1920x1200 the power at the wall increases to 175W. Nvidia 7000 series graphics cards seem to be a lot more power efficient than the 6000 series.

Compared to my old 3.2Ghz Pentium Northwood + Geforce 6800GT, which ran at 145W Idle, and 230W while gaming.

Shuttle PSU's are pretty high quality, and im pretty sure it should handle the graphics card. If you were overclocking CPU/GPU considerably then mebee you would need more power, but I doubt its a PSU issue to be honest.

System Spec
Core 2 Duo 'E6700' @stock 2.67Ghz
Nvidia 7900GTO 512meg
2Gig DDR2 @667Mhz
Seagate 7200.10 320Gig hard drive
1 Optical drive, 1 Floppy, 1 Zip drive
Soundblaster X-Fi
4 LED case fans
 
Bloody hell, hope its not a faulty card, i'm fed up of receiving faulty products from OCUK, now i'm going to have to use that infuriating webnote system.
 
By artefacts I don't mean graphical issues in game as such. Something is telling me that the seize ups that I'm getting occasionally are power related and also when loading some games I get a bunch of jumble in the black window before the renderer starts. That could be related to the OC but in the game itself I can't see any issues.

I think my PSU can only just handle it as it is. Hopefully my 550W Titan system will be able to handle it much more stabley.
 
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