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September 16th, 2007, 09:19 PM
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| Will 300 watt video card work on 250 W pc??
ok i just got my new pci graphics card for my dell dimension 3000 256mb of ram tho it says that its required amount of watts on the pc says 300 my pc only has 250 watts. I havent installed it yet but im not sure if i should tell my Dad 2 return it and get a different one with less usage of watts. If i should do that how much watts should the graphics card use up??? becuz i think if i dont have enough watts my pc will just shut down wen overheated. Will the graphics card work with low performance
will it wokr at high performance for a short period of time or will it not work at all??? plz i need help. should i get 128
Pentium 4 CPU
2.80GHz
2.79GHz
512mb of ddr ram
supports pci only
i currently have integrated graphics
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September 16th, 2007, 10:42 PM
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What graphics card did you get?
Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but there is no card you can get that will give even moderate performance. PCI cards are rare, expensive, and very slow.
If your looking to play something at decent quality/frame rates you will need a new motherboard and power supply at the least.
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September 17th, 2007, 05:05 PM
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I got a Nvidia GeForce 6200 PCI 256mb ddr2 memory
DVI + VGA + S-VIDEO OUTPUTS
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September 17th, 2007, 07:08 PM
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they still make PCI vid cards?! I thought it was bad enough finding AGP but thats going to be very difficult to find something at all worth buying. | |
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September 17th, 2007, 07:28 PM
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With my experience with those 250w power supplies, you should be fine.
But don't expect that 6200 to be a great card, the 6XXX series is ancient by computer standards, and it's the slowest one of the series. | |
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September 18th, 2007, 07:14 AM
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The card may not draw more than 25W anyway if it's PCI. Don't worry. | |
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September 18th, 2007, 08:02 PM
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Thanks so much guys th pci graphics card may not work great but atleast i wont get beaten for th computer shuting off in the middle of sumthing with my Mom watchign at the same time | |
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September 18th, 2007, 09:39 PM
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If your computer is randomly shutting off you have a problem already. Either from the power supply not being good enough or a heat problem, both of which would be made worse with a new video card. | |
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September 18th, 2007, 10:13 PM
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my moniter didnt even show up wen i installed it is it b/c i didnt disable th old graphics card befor i installed th new one???
or is it b/c i didnt connect my moniter to my graphics card with th extra DVI connecter piece that came with it??? | |
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September 19th, 2007, 06:24 AM
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