Which gfx card can I have on my psu?

[Bengaboy]

Hellllllllllllllllo

Looking to get a new gfx card, and only have a 300w psu (2 year old pc) and was wondering what the maximum card is I can put in it.

My specs are :

CPU - Pentium 4 HT 3.06ghz
1GB DDR1 RAM
200GB HDD
ATI Radeon X600
2 Disk Drives - 1 reader, one writer.

And thats about it.

I was thinking something along the lines of a 7800/7900?

Cheers guys

 

[Bengaboy]

Do you guys not want to help me?!?!?!?!!?!!?1?!?!?!??!?!?!!!!!!!?!!!!!

 

[-iceblade^]

the x600 . what a great card - it's the card that convinced me that graphics cards are important . still not so shabby to this day for lower resolutions (1152x864, 1024x768) with lower detail

i'd suggest upgrading the PSU as well as the card... otherwise, you could try an ATI 3650? not so sure about it's power draw, though. alternatively, you could take a 3850, but that'd need a PCIe power connector

 

[Slinky1989]

7800/7900 will want at least a 400w really.

Although saying that I had a 7950gt in my old pentium 4 shuttle system and that had a shuttle branded 350w power supply in it and that had no problems bar being a little unstable when I tryed to overclock my processor from 3.2 to 3.4

 

[postmanfw]

Wattage means nothing really

What the amps on the 12v rail? Thats what really matters

As said depending what games you are playing another gig of ram would be a good idea too.

Decent 400/500w psu can be found on MM for a decent price (£30ish or less)

What games and at what res will you be playing?

edit: and you can get adapters for molex to pcie connectors so thats not a problem

 

[jeggsy]

My current system is the following spec:-

Nforce2 chipset (AGP) with Athlon XP3000
2Gb DDR RAM
2x HD's + 2x DVD ROM & RW
400w PSU (15amp on +12v rail)
Gainward 256Mb 7600GT Golden Sample

If you can, I would grab a Geforce 7600GS or GT as they run pretty sweet and have low power requirements as well as being cheap ! !