Is a 420 power supply enough for my computer?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at
12:43 am
wormhole asked:
It will have:
1. an core 2 duo E8400 processor
2. 9500 GT graphic card
3. 4 gigs of ram
4. 500 gig hard drive
5. an optical drive
6. an average motherboard.
I am mostly concerned about the graphic card because it said that it requires a 320 watt power supply. Does that mean that it will use all that electricity?
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brighton electrician
You are right at the verge of not having enough. You should be ok tho since you will not be running the pc at full strain while playing games. If it starts to hang, stutter or restart, you know you need a bigger power supply.
Oh and yes it is using that much power… If you a playing a game off a CD you may me taxing it to its max.
sussex electric
i would think you need to get about 550 watt supply
brighton electrician
When it says 320 watt, that’s total system requirement. That wattage includes the whole typical system with the card. 420 watts is definitely enough. In your system, 420 watts will last you years and you can slap on a whole bunch of peripherals no problem.
sussex electrician
I would recommend you go up to 500 watts, so you have room to grow. 420W is about the threshold where you are at now. If you decide one day to put in a second hard drive, it will become too much, and you’ll start to see problems.