Old AGP card question

[jeggsy]

Was going to pass down my old Asus V9999GE AGP card (Nvidia 6800) into my sisters PC and was wondering what the PSU requirements are for it.

Had been running it fine for a few years on an FSP 400w PSU.

Spent ages looking on the Asus site but cannot find anything. If anybody could help then that would be great.


Cheers
Paul

 

[helmutcheese]

Cant mind as just sold a 6800Ultra and the box had REC watts on it, but Nvidia later lowered that spec and said it was for overheads to overclock, I know the 400watt should be good for a normal 6800 though.

 

[ray]

I think the Asus V9999G uses the 6800 Ultra chipset? According to this article, a 350W power supply should be enough:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040514055549.html

"“For users who want to run the GeForce 6800 Ultra at its standard clocks, a good quality 350W power supply is more than enough. In fact a number of web-sites have done reviews of the GeForce 6800 Ultra using a 350W PSU. Based on this and additional test time that we have had with the GPU, our new minimum power requirement is a 350W power supply,” Mr. Alibrandi explained."

 

[jeggsy]

Just in case it helps, the specs for her system are as follows:-

MSI K7T Turbo 2 mobo (MS-6330) VIA KT133A chipset - stock speeds
AMD Athlon XP2400
3x 256Mb PC133 SDRAM
DVD-ROM & DVD-RW (IDE)
2x 80Gb Hard drives (IDE)
Geforce 4 (Ti4400) 128Mb AGP card

Can't remember what the PSU is, but from memory I think it's a 300 or 350w PSU. Will open it up and have to have a look.


Cheers
Paul

 

[Delvis]

I believe a 350/400w will be enough.

But i've seen 230w psu's running graphics cards like that with no problem what so ever.

You might have to purchase a cheapish psu, nothing fancy really. Just something reliable I guess to set your mind at ease.