Is this a low profil card, and what is the recommended power supply, I'm currently running only 300w on my crappy pc
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They recommend a 300w power supply, but I am running it in a HTPC with only a 250w with 2 HDD internals and a 3tb external
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I really like this card. Graphics are awesome. It is a low power consuming card. According to the manufacturer, less than 60 watts. It does not require an independent power cable. So according to the manufacturer, it will run on a 300 watt power supple -- if that is what you are asking.
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It may run on a 425W PSU but it will run sluggish. Yes the card requires you have two 6-pin connectors hooked to it to run properly. It will run properly if you upgrade the power supply. The card requires a minimum of 500 Watts, but my suggestion would be to go to a 550w at least or a 600w PSU.
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400 watt or greater is the recommendation for this model. You should calculate how your psu is destrobuting it's power to make sure you can delegate enough to the card
618402
Technically, it should be higher, but it may still work well. There was some sort of incompatibilty between my card and PC (wasn't able to determine the cause), so I traded with a friend. He's now running it on a higher-end medium performance pc with only a 350w psu and it's working perfectly for him. Granted, he only buys high quality brand psu.
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My Dell XPS Studio also has a 300 Watt power supply and I have had no issues since installing the card
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My suggestion would be a 450 watt power supply. I had just upgraded to a 600 watt before I bought the card. When I researched this card originally, people said that the original 300 watt would work but I think it needs the extra wattage.
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Will it support it; Yes. Also under full PC load you will be around 500-550w (the cards alone pull 400w together). This will put you right in the efficiency "sweet spot" (92% at 120v). Looking at the graph you can see efficiency starts to decline over 50% psu load. Your idle load will drop below the efficiency "sweet spot" but only by 2%.
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This card runs fine off just 300w. Anything larger than this will probably require a lot more, but this card requires only 300w. And yes, you're good so long as you have a pci-e slot.
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Per the EVGA website you need a "Minimum of a 350 Watt power supply".You didn't mention what type and model PC you have. If it is an HP they come terribly under-powered. I would upgrade your power supply. Do not try and use that card with anything less than a 350 watt power supply. I'd get a bare minimum of a 450W power supply.
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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
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I am using 400W power supply with this card and it works just fine. This card has pretty low power requirement especially since it has no cooling fans. This card is designed to be fully fanless by using bigger heat sinks. I mainly used it for the good performance, smaller profile and fanless design.Please let me know if you have further questions.
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Nope. On the box it says a minimum amount of power to operate properly. I think a 350W power supply is not sufficient to run this card. Plus, you will need extra 2 peripheral power connectors if you do not have a 6pin power connector to the PSU
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It should work fine on any 300 watt or more power supply. It's total draw is only going to be 75 watts as that is all the power that can go through a PCI-E slot and this card does not have an extra power connection.
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It would depend on what else is running in your system, but I would recommend 500w+. This particular card is pretty efficient on power. At peak performance it can consume about 160-170watts. That's taxing it pretty hard though. But throw in a couple hard drives, optical drive, fans, and any power consuming usb peripherals, along with whatever your motherboard and processor use, and you will have an issue. Most retail systems come with a 300watt psu and they don't have a ton of overhead. 400 watts isn't much higher. I think you are asking for trouble unless you aren't planning on taxing the system with high end games. I would recommend a 600w but I think you could get away with 500 watts.
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It is recommended that you use a 400 watt power supply by AMD, but in reality all this is for is to save themselves from hearing about defective cards from users that may have cheap or low end power supplies. I have one of these running in my secondary rigs with a 300 watt power supply without any issues what so ever. Though 300 Watts is as low as I would go.
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It's really more complicated than that, the card itself is 60W TDP (Thermal Design Point). You must consider your system's makeup -- i.e. processor, expansion cards, USB devices, drives, # monitors, and memory. Try searching on "power supply calculators" to see.That said, this card's TDP is so low, most systems should run it fine. A 300W PSU with an i7 CPU and lots of peripherals might have issues.