New PSU Advice Please

[danhans115]

Ive just got some extras coming to me as a sort of bonus from work (its our financial year end). Anyway Windows 7 scored my graphics card at 3.9 ( Geforce 7300GT PCIe) and my primary hard disk as 4.0 (80Gb WD) so I thought I would take advantage and upgrade them.

Anyway I managed to get them to buy me a WD 150Gb Velociraptor and a Geforce 260 OC2 graphics card. Ive got one of the early Quad Core 2.4 cpus, a DVD-R and a second HDD, thats it. Its all running fine on a 500w PSU at the minute but Im thinking is this graphics card gonna need some extra juice?

Its ages since ive looked at graphics cards as I dont play many games so dont know much about all the supplimentary power connections they have these days.

Can anyone recommend one thats not too expensive, I was going to get it ordered so it arrived before the graphics card/HDD.

TIA

Dan

 

[jip0]

Ive just got some extras coming to me as a sort of bonus from work (its our financial year end). Anyway Windows 7 scored my graphics card at 3.9 ( Geforce 7300GT PCIe) and my primary hard disk as 4.0 (80Gb WD) so I thought I would take advantage and upgrade them.

Anyway I managed to get them to buy me a WD 150Gb Velociraptor and a Geforce 260 OC2 graphics card. Ive got one of the early Quad Core 2.4 cpus, a DVD-R and a second HDD, thats it. Its all running fine on a 500w PSU at the minute but Im thinking is this graphics card gonna need some extra juice?

Its ages since ive looked at graphics cards as I dont play many games so dont know much about all the supplimentary power connections they have these days.

Can anyone recommend one thats not too expensive, I was going to get it ordered so it arrived before the graphics card/HDD.

TIA

Dan

i reckon you will just be able to get away with it with 500w but amore powerfull psu can never hurt so unless you really need to save the money then get one to be safe if not then wait till everything comes and find out the hard way

 

[colin79666]

Probably be fine with a good 500W psu.

I'm running an early core 2 duo, 2 hdds, nvidia 7900gs and a tv tuner card in my PC with a 350W psu. Never had any issues with stability - according to my energy monitoring thingy the PCs never drawn more than 200W from the socket.

 

[Focus Owner]

and thats with a screen

 

[danhans115]

Cheers guys,

Just managed to track the card down that Im getting (BFG), and it says requires 2 x PCIe power connections or something, but there is an adapter in the box that converts two molex connections into one and my PSU already has a spare one so should be okay.

Ill give it a blast with a good game or 3dmark or something and see how it goes. The one thats in there isnt a high end one of anything its just a (near)silent 500w one so might well trip out.

Least I know I dont need to splash out silly money if I dont need to.

Thanks again

Dan