Quick PC Power question please

AssaTM

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hello all, I recently bought a Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H AMD 880G with a Phenom II 555 and 4 gigs of RAM, I had a Corsair CX 400w Power Supply from a few months ago and I figured given i'm using the Integrated graphics right now until I buy a GFX Card, that the 400w would be more than enough, but as I was reading the Motherboard manual it recommends a 500w Power Supply, i'm guessing thats to cover for if a PCI Express graphics card is being used but I just want to make sure that the 400w PSU would be more than enough for now on the Integrated Graphics? if not then i'll have to upgrade the power supply, I tested the PC and it runs fine etc but i'd like to make sure anyway even though I cant see how an Integrated Graphics Chip would ever need anything near 400w, but any help would be greatly appreciated anyway, thank you for your time :)
 
Ahh thank you, I thought i'd make sure before I play any older games on it thats all, I was confident 400w would be enough but it's best to make sure, and thank you for the help :D
 
The Corsair CX400 is a quality PSU made by Seasonic (unlike the new Builder CX Series made by another manufacturer, plus cut corner on the parts being used). It will provide enough power for any system with a graphic card that require none or up to one PCI-E 6pin power.

However for graphic card that require two PCI-E 6pin power or more, it'd be best to check the power consumption of the card and calculate the total system power consumption to make sure it doesn't go beyond 400W before going ahead. (However according review, the CX400W can actually handle 450W perfectly fine.)

Sidenote: your current motherboard has core-unlock feature...you should have a go at trying to unlock the two hidden cores on your Phenom II X2 555BE to see if you got two healthy hidden cores you could use if you not yet done so. All you have to do is go into BIOS, and find the core-unlock feature (or whatever they call it) and enable it and save it to your BIOS setting.
 
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Ahh thank you, thats definitely real nice to hear then :) and yeh I tried the Core Unlocking feature but unfortunately theres a few threads saying that for some people the board doesnt seem to even attempt to unlock the cores, and mine didnt really seem to try at all either, so i'm gonna update the Bios once I have Windows installed and then give it another try then, because it would definitely be nice to have 2 extra cores unlocked but even if it cant i'm still more than happy with the processor for sure :) but hopefully the new Bios can unlock the cores, lets hope so anyway :), and thank you for the help again, it's definitely appreciated
 
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