PSU advice please

horrorwood · 23 Apr 2013 at 13:46

Hi,

I have a HP Pavilion p6-2370ea as per here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=uk&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03527054#N90

The PSU in it is supposedly 300watt, however it has 2x 12v rails with 12a and 16a on each.

I'd like to add a GTX 460 1GB to it, do you think the PSU would cope?

Or should I just replace the PSU too?

horrorwood · 23 Apr 2013 at 13:58

Thanks I thought so,

I was going to go for this as it is cheap:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-063-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2463

Should be OK?

horrorwood · 23 Apr 2013 at 14:02

Actually this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-230-CM&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2463

horrorwood · 23 Apr 2013 at 14:24

acme15 said:
Either of those would do the trick. I have a 460 running on one of those PSU's (the CoreXstream) 24/7 at 100% load in one of my systems.

The XFX will have higher quality circuitry/components inside though. It's your call

I know they do, I have read a lot of PSU reviews (I am sad!). The PC is not for me or I would have gone for something higher end. It's for my cousin who only has a £400 budget.

So anyway, I have ordered the OCZ, seems to be a few reports of the coolermaster not being very good. I know OCZ are/were not doing very well, but hopefully this will be fine

Thanks for the help.