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new PSU question?

bru

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Well my son's monitor has gone pop (an old 22" 1680x1050 one) so that means a new monitor, now with nearly all monitors now days being 1920x1080 I'm wondering if his gtx260 is gong to be up to the task, now I do have a gtx 470 that I can put in there and it is a fairly decent upgrade form a 260 but I'm not sure that his OCZ 450 PSU will be up to the task.

The rest of his machine is a I3 3220, z68 board, two Hdd (SSD is busted and awaiting RMA), DVD/RW and 2* 120mm fans.

When I ran the 470 I had it running at 800Mhz and it drank juice like it was gong out of fashion, but I have no idea how good/bad they are at stock settings, will the 450PSU be capable to drive a 470 and the reat of his rig or a new PSU a better option.

I was looking at about £50 for a PSU maybe the EVGA 600W one


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1 x EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0600-KR) £49.99
Total : £49.99 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
Don't know of any 450W OCZ PSUs. So it is hard to know if it will be able to power a system with a GTX 470 without knowing what it is.

Although I would only trust a GTX 470 to a 450W PSU if the PSU in question was very high quality.
 
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