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Will this card work with this PSU?

Nic Jackson

Nic Jackson

Nic Jackson

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Hi Guys

I wish to upgrade my existing Leadtek 6800 AGP card for a Leadtek 7600gt.(
Ideally I would like a 7800 card ).
However I'm led to believe that my Fortron Bluestorm 500w which provides 15amps per 12v rail may not be man enough for the job of powering the new card. Is this so?


The reason I want to change cards is that the 6800 struggles a bit with flightsim2004 on the Monitor I'm currently using, which I run at it's native resolution.


I,m not very computer savvy so if anyone can help can they keep the
answer simple please. My present PC spec is as follows:-

K8N NEO2 MSI MOBO
2GIG HYNEX DDR PC3200 MEM
AUDIGY 2 ZX
FORTRON 500W BLUESTORM PSU
ATHLON 64 3800+ CPU ( Venice )
LEADTECH 6800 128MEG GPU AGP
IIYAMA PROLITE E483S 19" LCD
1x DVD/RW ???
1XDVD ROM ???

Any help would be much appreciated guys :)
 
I run a 7800gt in an acer t180 with a 3800 X2. That has a 250 watt delta power supply and copes fine!

Yours might cope with that? Alternatively you could spend £20ish on an enermax 350+ watt psu or equivalent and be completely confident in it powering everything reliably!

gt

Edit: I used this to spec my machine and it stated i could run it all on a 250 watt psu. You could check your specs on it too - Linky

Good luck! :cool:
 
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Buy a 8800GTS 320MB, sorry that seems to be the answer around here now, but i does really make sense why invest in something that is old and slower when the future (the 8800GTS 320MB) is here and at a cheap price ?

If your budget can go the the 8800GTS just think of it as buying a graphics card to last you a few years instead of buying a slightly better one every so often !
 
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WoZZeR said:
The 7600 is nearly twice as fast as the 6800 if you compare them here:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
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sorry but what? the biggest gap is around 30-40% and thats only in 3dmark which is a crap indicator of performance for these kinds of cards, in all the games there is mostly a 10-20% gap in games according to that but newer cards out years later are tested on newer motherboards, with newer memory, hard drives and cpu's which will account for some of that difference. the next real upgrade from a 6800 would be a 7900 type card. remember, in general the next generation mid end card tries to emulate or just beat the speed of last gens high end. thats the general idea although its not really worked on the 7900/8800 bump.


either way a 500w psu is fine. the power requirements well, if you've bought a decent psu they are normally fairly big overestimates. i'm running a x2 3800 clocked up pretty high, 2 gig mem, 6 hdd's bunch of fans and a 8800 gts clocked up. supposedly 500W is the minimum for this setup and 650+ is recommended yet i can overclock all my system with a quality 500W ocz psu. your fortron is very decent quality and you probo wouldn't have issues with even a 8800gtx let alone a 7600 which would probo use less juice than your 6800 but isn't an upgrade.

assuming your monitor is a 1280x1024, flight sim as i understand is stupidly resource happy so generally need a better card than normally needed for that resolution. if a6800 isn't happy you'll deffo want to jump up to some kinda 7900, a gt, whatevers cheap or then 8800gts if you can afford it, though that might be a bit overkill for one game at that res. 95% of other games will be kinda wasted on a 8800gts at that kinda res.

EDIT:- didn't notice you only had a 128mb version, and noticed agp but didn't really think about it, i think there is a 7900 something or other with an agp version, but price premium on stuff like that probo isn't worth it as you can get a decent clocking stable 939 pci-e board for almost nothing anyway so i'd grab a new board and a pci-e card. cpu won't be limiting your resolution anytime soon and i'm sure you'll get x2 939's kicking around for cheap for a long time to come so you've got a lot of potential power there.
 
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Originally Posted by drunkenmaster
sorry but what? the biggest gap is around 30-40% and thats only in 3dmark which is a crap indicator of performance for these kinds of cards, in all the games there is mostly a 10-20% gap in games
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I selected NVidia 7600 GT G73, 560MHz, 1400MHz, 256 GDDR3

and

Compared to NVIDIA 6600 GT NV43, 500MHz, 1000MHz, 128 GDDR3

In Oblivion 1280 1024 no AA 8xAF 6fps and 3fps
In HL2 E1 1280 1024 4xAA 8xAF 42fps and 21fps

I gues it depends on what game and what card you select. The precise cards we have are not on there.

Yeah, if money's no object buy a more expensive card because on newer games it's gonna struggle. Ordered a PCIe BFG 7600 GT OC myself the other day for my other SD37P2 so I will shortly have 1st hand experience.
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