Will my 300W power supply in ASUS Essentio i7/4770 w/ 32GB RAM, be adequate to run this card?
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No, I would recommend at least a high efficiency 450 or 500 Watt, it may power up but you can damage the card with not providing it enough power or damage your mother board. You may find some calculator that says other wise but I wouldn't risk it. (I burned up this same card and ruined my mother board pcie slot, not for running to little power but my power supply shorted giving unstable power, to little power would be unstable.
368230
Hey man, the best advice I can give is go to pcpicker dot com and "build" your computer within the website. It should tell ya if 300W is enough. :) That is what I did when building my computer!
2183305
CarolineYes but only mid level card the 300 watt Power supply won't support the high end cards.PC Mag did a good review of this PC http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413568,00.aspI hope this is helpfulRick
793422
you should be fine as long as you arent planning on running a super high end graphics card with it because 500w might be a little bit low for some of the major graphics cards. but if you're just gonna run something like a 6850 or something you should be just fine. hope this helps
1716179
This card needs a minimum 300 watt PSU according to Nividia web site. sorry Make sure you keep the dust blown out of your computer, it will add years to its life. Ed
1291523
my system has a 350W power supply..does that mean i am ok getting this card? or do i need a separate 300w supply? sorry i am new to this... any insight would be appreciated... thanks
1181173
it depends on your motherboard the total power needed but each GPU requires 300watts
2027662
My SFF PC is running off a 250W power supply so I guess if your CPU is not the power hungry type (mine is the low end dual-core 3M cacahe 2.7GHz type), 300W probably will be okay.
1690033
My Dell XPS Studio also has a 300 Watt power supply and I have had no issues since installing the card
1447606
It would really depend on everything else in your system. If everything else pulls to much power, and there isn't enough for the video card, it will not preform as well and your power supply will wear out very quickly. I know from experience that too small of a power supply will burn out and need to be replaced. I would recommend at least a 500w.
1446085
Almost definitely. I was running it on a 500w PSU but I also have a lower power consumption from my CPU to help with that. Unless you are running it with a AMD 9590 or something like that, 650w PSU should work great.
1110841
it depends on the rest of your system but this GPU isn't a power hungry . only uses 65watts max so it do'll find on a 300 watt PUS :D
2022408
Should be plenty. NVidia GTX 970 cards only require max 165W of power. You should be fine with 850W.
1094876
Can't answer that since it would most definitely depend on what other components you have. This card does not require a lot of power by design, but the total power load would depend on the other components in your system - not just this card.
1081247
It depends on the other components in your system. I run a 450w power supply with this card and no issues. If your CPU is sucking up more than average watts you may require more , but this card has a very low power requirement considering pretty good performance.
1090050
That is a popular question, you can check on Toms Hardware for other discussions. AMD recommends 400w, I also used an Antec 550w for mine but others have reported that they got by with 300w but it depends on the efficiency of the power supply.
868814
I'm running this card with an i7-3770k, 16GB RAM, HDD, blu ray drive, loads of fans using a 300W PSU. All is well. It's about 65w for the card.