Shuttle SFF + 6800LE

[deshepherd]

I'm about to upgrade gfx in my main PC with result that I'll have the 6800LE card that's currently in there left over. Ideally I'd like to then put that in a second PC that my children use to replace a very aged GE3 ti200! (that one was what the 6800LE replaced in my main PC - its definitely showing its age now and the cooling fan sounds like its ready to expire anytime soon!). The issue is that the second PC is a Shuttle SN41G2 V2 and has only a 250W PSU. Anyone know whether the 6800LE power requirements are going to be too high for the PSU?

Hmm, just seen on the Shuttle website that it claims that 6800GT *is* supported so may be ok but I can also find lots of people saying 300W PSU isn't good enough for a 6800!

Thanks for any info

 

[semi-pro waster]

Shuttle PSUs tend to be very good so I'd say that the 6800le should be fine, the only way to be sure is to try but I really wouldn't have any worries about it. The warnings about 300w PSUs are generally because someone tried to use a generic PSU rather than a decent quality unit.

 

[Bane]

I had a v1 SN41G2 that ran a Leadtek 6800LE THD using the 250W PSU.

Before the PSU upgrade I was running a Sapphire 9800Pro on the 200W Achme PSU originally supplied with the barebones, and only upgraded PSU due to a typo pricing error. I think the 9800Pro had higher power requirements than a 6800LE.

Edit: Can't remember fully, but I think I also tried the 6800LE with the 200W PSU, to compare the noise difference between the two.

That was with a 2500 Barton, 1GB memory, 1xHD and DVD-RW

 

[MoD_Callidus]

should be fine fella, as a rule of thumb most shuttle psu's are comparable to similar psu's rated +50w. I've got a 300w shuttle psu. if the kit I've got was in standard atx/matx format I'd be using a 400w minimum.

 

[deshepherd]

Thanks for the input ... looks like it should work so I'll plan on continuing my upgrade cascade through my systems!

 

[deshepherd]

Quick feedback in case anyone comes across this thread and wants to know if it really worked!

Well, eventually I got round to upgrading GFX on main machine (got a 3850) and thus was able to move the 6800LE into the shuttle.

- physically getting the card in place was not trivial as the 6800LE is a leadtek which has part of the plastic fan cover wrapping over top of card thus is ~1cm higher than standard AGP card and had to be forced under metal frame of shuttle - one card is seated in AGP socket its fine just gettign it there is an issue.

- at first just stuck card in, loaded latest driver and seemed to work but over next day or so had intermittent graphics issues

- as a result did a driverclean (which I should probably have done first) ro get rid of all old nvidia gfx drivers (and in process managed to clean out the nvidia mboard/ethernet drivers causing XP to decide my system had changed thus requiring re-validation <sigh> but once I'd reinstalled drivers did this online no problem). Since then it seems to have been working fine for the last 2-3 weeks

So summary, the shuttle PSU seems to provide sufficient power for the 6800LE

 

[Arthalen]

I've recently owned a SK22G2 Shuttle system, which has a basic PSU of just 200 Watts. But that ran a 8600 GTS 256MB and a 7600GT video card without issue.

These shuttles are tough little blighters, when it comes to power draw.