i have a 550watt Antec powersupply will this card run well with my ps? worried about not having enough power total.(other specs: Phenom IIx4965BE,Asus M5A97LER2.0 motherboard, CMHyper212 Plus cpu cooler,4gb gskill ram, 3 case fans, dvd drive, and WD750gb harddrive) note nothing is overclocked i have a 550watt Antec powersupply will this card run well with my ps? worried about not having enough power total.(other specs: Phenom IIx4965BE,Asus M5A97LER2.0 motherboard, CMHyper212 Plus... » Read More i have a 550watt Antec powersupply will this card run well with my ps? worried about not having enough power total.(other specs: Phenom IIx4965BE,Asus M5A97LER2.0 motherboard, CMHyper212 Plus cpu cooler,4gb gskill ram, 3 case fans, dvd drive, and WD750gb harddrive) note nothing is overclocked « Show Less
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Since it's a good power supply you should be fine with 550 if you were going with a no name power supply would be different story but a PS like Antec or Corsair should be fine with 550 watts. If you plan on doing crossfire 7850's like I have I went with an 800 Corsair and have plenty of power to spare but they say at least 650 watts for crossfire 7850's and 500 watts for a single 7850 so your good with the setup you stated.
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550W is more than enough. Just make sure you plug the power wire into the card without pinching the small wire located at the card connector. This card requires 500W so you have more than enough power. Also install the Afterburner software that comes with this card as it is easy to monitor the temperature of the card and increase you fan speed settings if it starts running hot due to some games. I am very pleased with this card.
579233
Should be good. I have a 650Watt, but with 2x hdds and 2x sdds, otherwise similar internals.http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
579234
550w should be more than enough but that does depend on your amperage draw. If it an Antec 80i plis certified than u should be covered. Other than that i would still but it up to a 600 - 650w just to be safe only because you don't want to bottle neck you psu in terms of performace. But 550w is the minimum.
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Yes, it recommends a minimum system PSU of 500W. 600W will be fine as long as you are using this as a single card (not SLI). Do yourself a favor and get a good PSU from a reputable brand (e.g. Seasonic). Don't skimp on the quality of the PSU to save a couple bucks.
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I needs 230 watts per card. 2 of them sum up to 460 watts witch will leave a very small room for CPU RAM Motherboard and HDD. You need a PSU thats at least 1000 watts to run 2 of them I'll recommend 1200 watt so you leave room and that way your PSU runs cold. You don't want all the heat a PSU generates when near 80% of usage. Even more when shopping for a new PSU make sure that a big part of the power is in the 12v rail. In electronic Power = Voltage * Current . in this case voltage is 12 current is what your PSU says on the box (you can check this while shopping) so. Power for 12 V = 12V * 56 = 672 watts for 12 V. This is an example Going back to you PSU u have 4 rails of 12v. @ 20Amp each. If you use 2 for each card ull get Card 1: 12v@40A = 480watts card uses 460 - 95% ( danger) Card 2: 13v@40A = 480watts card uses 460 - 95% ( danger) They are too close to the limit 95% and you have no room for CPU and Motherboard. They take about 150w more. And you only (at best) only have 40. Hope this helps for more info google search PSU watts explanations or ask me again.
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This is a really great card. however, your concern is correct. I wouldn't try running it on a power supply that is less then 700w just to be safe. I currently run a 1100w Therm, and have had no problems.
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The card itself is rated by Nvidia to use about 155 watts. If your just running one you won't need to buy a real heavy power supply. the computer I built with this card calculated to use just under 400 watts overall (and I put a 4th gen i5, 8 gigs of ram, 2 hard drives, multiple fans, 2 DVD/blu ray roms, and a decent mobo) and I used a 500 watt psu. Just make sure your power supply has the proper connectors ( you will need an 8 pin and a 6 pin connector to power this card, careful not to confuse your 8 pin motherboard connector with your 8 pin video card connector.)
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I've got this CPU, Radeon HD 6850, 4 rams (2x4GB, 2x8GB) and 2 hard drive and I have a 500W PSU. I think I'm better upgrade the PSU, but at the moment, I don't have any problems and everything works fine...So I guess a 500W would be fine for you.
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Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W CPU and so on, so it was unworkable to have just 300W. Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W... » Read More Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W CPU and so on, so it was unworkable to have just 300W. « Show Less
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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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I'm running 2 cards (not CF) and a 125 watt cpu all at full power and my ups shows a power draw of around 450 watts. but the single card and 125 watt cpu is reading around 330 watts. follow the recommended wattage, 500w i think, but even in a 2 card cross fire, you won't need more than 1000W, beyond 1Kw is excessive.
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my PS is 650 watts and it running fine, but it really depends on how much other stuff is pulling down your PS. I would try it and you get sudden OS shutdowns then replace it with a 700- 750 watt. It is easy to swap out you can get a used 750 off ebay for $50
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Yes I have a 500watt power supply and it runs great unlessential you are try to do crossfire then I would get a higher watt power supply
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You should be able to run it just fine with a 600W PSU. If you are going to upgrade in the future, say crossfire, then you should look into upgrading to a 750W or 800W PSU.
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I am afraid I can't answer that. All I can say is that it is a strong mid range low profile card. Under heaviest loads, in small form factor boxes, it will heat up. For my purposes - to deal with this I added extra fans and moved the power supply outside the box. Obviously I am a fanatic - and work to keep my system components running under listed normal ranges.
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You will have to upgrade you PSU to at least 400w for to run some games, I would recommend a 600w or above. I have a corsair tx650 and it runs cool even with a lot of power demand.
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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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This card has a TDP of 115W, thus a PSU of at least 450-500W* would be recommended, leaving some wattage for other components and upgrades. *Standard PSU warning: Watch out for outdated and/or mislabeled PSUs (such as this one: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=324 ) - some PSUs do not deliver their rated voltage, or are rated on their 'peak' output wattage (the wattage they can provide for ~10-50 milliseconds before catastrophically failing)
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You should be fine. I keep mine in an antec 300. it's a big card no matter what though. The power adapters it comes with are stiff so they don't bend well against the side panel. you should be fine with 600w. just be careful with any overclocking!