Need help picking out a video card, please :-) - Page 2

=Sarc= · 12-26-2006, 11:55 PM

I'm not sure what the exact consequences of insufficient power would be. My thoughts were always system instability but nothing serious that would damage hardware. Maybe it's safe to buy the card first and see if there is any instability that a PSU upgrade can fix. Of course, any instability could be a result of some other problem but a PSU upgrade would eliminate that possibility.

**SuperDudeBT** · 12-27-2006, 04:40 AM

Oh, I figured that it would be fried hardware. Is that not the case?

**PanzerHans** · 12-27-2006, 12:35 PM

I have ran my GF6800Ultra on a 250 watt powersupply. The only thing I noticed was horrible performance. I'm guessing the card throttles down on insufficient wattage. However I would be carefull.... at least check with the retailer of the card if there is any danger to the card when running it on a 300w powersupply.

**SuperDudeBT** · 12-29-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Grunt 70

I'd guess it will probably run if you don't already have a bunch of peripherals running off your PSU. Good luck...Keep us posted.

I got a 420 W power supply, and the 7900 GS. And, I am up and running on BF2142.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Turbinator · 12-31-2006, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperDudeBT

So, it's better just because of the number of pixel pipelines?

It's actually slower in core and memory clock speeds.. is that not a big deal?

number of pixel pipes beats the clock speed for all shader intensive games, aka current and future games

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12-27-2006, 12:35 PM	#18 (permalink)
PanzerHans Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: By the PC Age: 35 Posts: 2,262	Re: Need help picking out a video card, please :-) I have ran my GF6800Ultra on a 250 watt powersupply. The only thing I noticed was horrible performance. I'm guessing the card throttles down on insufficient wattage. However I would be carefull.... at least check with the retailer of the card if there is any danger to the card when running it on a 300w powersupply. __________________ -- VI VI VI - the number of the beast

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