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Thursday146

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Specs:

Kuma 7750+
Kingston 2x1gb pc2-5300
Asus 790gx
Using integrated graphics
Codegen 400 watt (single 12v with 16a)
Momentus 5400.2
LG dvd burner


Right now im looking at an hd 3850 but my psu i think is alittle weak and im kinda tired of using a laptop hard drive. idk what to upgrade. what do you think?
 
Your right about your PSU being on the weak side, you'd need at least a 450W per Sapphire's webpage, so go with the HDD if those are the only two things your looking at.
 
Well, personally i would start by upgrading to a new power supply, so that when you have the money later on you can upgrade to a better video card.
 
El quad core said:
u don't need a new psu. My dad's p4 system has a 3850 in it running with 250w psu no problem.
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Actually a 3850 minimum requirement is at minimum 450 watt, and a 400watt codegen is a very low quality power supply to start with... one thing with pc's to remember, is never skimp on the power supply.
 
hd 3850 power usage

still worried about my psu though, my computer restarts itself when i overclock my kuma to 3.2ghz and run a stress test... but it ran prime95 for 8 hours at 3.0ghz.. i guess ill just have to try it out
 
bomberboysk said:
Actually a 3850 minimum requirement is at minimum 450 watt, and a 400watt codegen is a very low quality power supply to start with... one thing with pc's to remember, is never skimp on the power supply.
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thats true but my dad's system has 250W and works fine so I don't see why his won't be fine either.
 
Well, if you would understand what is being said, cheap power supplies are very prone to failure, and if you look at the guide that was posted about power usage, the 3850 itself uses nearly 11 amps, and that only leaves about 5 amps(60 watts) for the rest of the system, which the cpu itself uses more than 60 watts.
 
bomberboysk said:
Well, if you would understand what is being said, cheap power supplies are very prone to failure, and if you look at the guide that was posted about power usage, the 3850 itself uses nearly 11 amps, and that only leaves about 5 amps(60 watts) for the rest of the system, which the cpu itself uses more than 60 watts.
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i dont understand were you see that it uses 11 amps. what i understand is that the reviewers sytem peaks at 207 watt.. i imagine my system to be the almost the same... And im sure a codegen 400watt psu can handle 200watts


Or am i looking at this wrong?? lol
 
Thursday146 said:
i dont understand were you see that it uses 11 amps. what i understand is that the reviewers sytem peaks at 207 watt.. i imagine my system to be the almost the same... And im sure a codegen 400watt psu can handle 200watts


Or am i looking at this wrong?? lol
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wattage means almost zilch, you really need to be looking at amperage, something most el cheapo psu's don't have, and you said that when you overclock your rig, that the psu runs out, with a graphics card, i would expect to do fine in idle, but anything remotely 3d intensive would probably blow the psu up
 
just a noob said:
wattage means almost zilch, you really need to be looking at amperage, something most el cheapo psu's don't have, and you said that when you overclock your rig, that the psu runs out, with a graphics card, i would expect to do fine in idle, but anything remotely 3d intensive would probably blow the psu up
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amps are more important. codogen is a crappy brand and probably you would need one that has a nice 72 amps with 12 volt rails.
 
take a look at the hd 3850 256mb




i had a 9500GT in my system before...the 9500gt is based on the 8600GT. when i get the hd 3850 there is basically a 16 watt difference in power usage than my other card. do i really need get a new psu instead because of that difference?
 
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