power supply
- Thread starter shneed
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3 monitors?, Alaways get a good power supply, 500 watts should do.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=58&name=Power-Supplies
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=58&name=Power-Supplies
Calculate your need... suggest you NOT buy a cheapo. Go with a name brand... Cooler Master, Thermaltake, Antec, SilenX, etc.
http://www.journeysystems.com/power_supply_calculator.php
http://www.journeysystems.com/power_supply_calculator.php
Here's a thread that has some
numbers for the ATI cards:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=7&t=9354
Looks like 41W are drawn at full load
for the x1600, and 31W for each x1300.
This is not quite as high as one sees
reported elsewhere, and not as high
as for some of the older cards, too.
There's been some benefit by going
to the 90 nm feature size.
Add these numbers to everything else,
of course.
Cheers!
thanks for your replies. My computer has 550w antec power supply. I have an Ati x1600 AGP card. Tried to install 2 additional ATI x 1300 PCI cards and the computer starts dumping memory, or not turning on any screens at all. I have a friend who is a computer "expert", tell me that I don't have enough power supply.
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