Same Old Question - Shuttle PSU power...

chimaera · 25 Aug 2008 at 20:38

Well it's time to upgrade the graphics card in my SN95G5, i'm sticking with AGP to strain out a little bit more life until i upgrade the whole machine so was thinking of going for either...

Sapphire 2600XT
Sapphire Radeon HD 3650

However does my shuttle PSU have enough 'oomph' to run properly on 240w?

Other spec:

AMD 3500
2g RAM
160g HD

Stellios · 25 Aug 2008 at 20:55

http://www.*******.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/97958/

Have a dig through there mate, I cant say for definate whether it will work or not, but that thread should give you an idea.

Edit - Oh FFS, links blocked. One of the best shuttle based forums and you cant link to it. Never mind.

JSW · 26 Aug 2008 at 10:00

Don't kknow about the 2600 XT but I ran the 1950XT in my SN95G fine with the 240 psu

Paramount · 26 Aug 2008 at 10:10

Yes. I've got a 4850 and X2 4600 on my 200w'er. It rebooted once when I was stressing it with benchmarks.

chimaera · 26 Aug 2008 at 13:50

Stellios said:
http://www.*******.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/97958/

Have a dig through there mate, I cant say for definate whether it will work or not, but that thread should give you an idea.

Edit - Oh FFS, links blocked. One of the best shuttle based forums and you cant link to it. Never mind.

Not to worry, just googling your link even with the stars turns up the right result

Thanks to all!

steve258 · 24 Sep 2008 at 14:50

SX38P2 [450W]
2X 4850 512 in X fire
2X 500G WD *ks Sata HDD, [1T GP WD eSATA (external power)],1T Samsung SATA
8G(4X2G) GSkill 800 ram 1:1 @ 667
QX9650 Quad@ 3G @3.6G [11X333]
LG DVD LightScribe 16X
MS Keyboard + Logitec mouse

Is that for real :eek:

am considering similar specs but with Q6600 (B3).

Sankari · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:26

My little SN21G5 ran a 2600XT Pro without blinking.

misterPK · 25 Sep 2008 at 09:10

I've got a 3650, 2 gig ram, and an X2 4200 in my SN25G5. Before that it had an x800xl, 1 gig and a A64 3800. Not had any problems with it yet.

PK!

cokecan · 6 Oct 2008 at 15:03

i've always said it but i'm gonna say it again

shuttle PSU's are some of the most stable PSU's I've ever used. you can load them up like crazy and they all still work/power your systeem without fault. I'm not really up-to-date with shuttles anymore but I presume they all still use the same kjind of power, infact I remember the SN95G5 uses the same PSU I had in my SN85G4V3 (the 240watt version) and that powered everythin I chucked at it!

there were a few made my Enhance in the past that wernt up to scratch but the rest of them are great.

cpatain-chaos · 6 Oct 2008 at 15:46

I'd suggest it will, as stated shuttle psu's are super efficient and seem to be way underrated

Stephen B · 19 Oct 2008 at 11:59

If the 95 uses the pc40 PSU, you can upgrade to the pc50 [300w] I'd guess. Just done exactly that with my SG31G2

currently running an 8800gt, 500gb HD [email protected]