breadboi Posted February 23, 2008 CID Share Posted February 23, 2008 The power requirement for a 9600GT(from BFG) is stated at 400W, based on a system with a core2 extreme x6800. Will my 375W powersupply be enough for it running only a core2 6300 (1.86GHz)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 23, 2008 CID Share Posted February 23, 2008 375 will be cutting it really close. It would be best to upgrade it to atleast 450. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blako Posted February 23, 2008 CID Share Posted February 23, 2008 I have a 8600gt requiring a 350w supply in my 300w HP. I would say yes since your cpu is using less power then E6800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 23, 2008 CID Share Posted February 23, 2008 I have a 8600gt requiring a 350w supply in my 300w HP. I would say yes since your cpu is using less power then E6800 9600gt uses more power then a 8600gt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted February 23, 2008 CID Share Posted February 23, 2008 I just got the 9600 gt.. i had to buy a new PSU with all of the nessessary stuff... the 9600 gt requires a 6 pin connector for power as your pci express slot cant power the whole card itself.. i bought a new 600 watt psu from tiger direct.. works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blako Posted February 25, 2008 CID Share Posted February 25, 2008 I said: 8600gt requires 350w, and im giving it 300w with a pentium D 9600gt requires 400w if running a E6800, I belive 9600gt with E6300 will be ok on 375w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blako Posted February 25, 2008 CID Share Posted February 25, 2008 Testing done with QX6750 at 3.0Ghz, and compares 8800gt, HD3870, and a few 9600gt's http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Nvidia_GeForce_9600_GT_Launch_and_3Way_Shootout/?page=7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted February 25, 2008 CID Share Posted February 25, 2008 The problem with wattages is that they're not very reliable for brandless PSUs. A 400 watt quality PSU can actually run a lot of high-end stuff (ok, no tri-SLI 8800 Ultra) with some effort, but a brandless one may just as well crash then burn then explode. Also, you see all those 1kW+ PSUs when there is no system at stock that can only work with that much power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blako Posted February 25, 2008 CID Share Posted February 25, 2008 Right on RTB, I found an Antec 1000W Power Supply between 80%-85% efficient. So you can only put a load of 800w on the PSU. 8 Cores at 4.0GHz + 8800GTX = 623W 8 Cores at 3.2GHz + 8800GTX = 470W 4 Cores at 3.0GHz + 8800GTX = 241W Article: Intel Power Consumption Then and Now Processor power consumption chart P.S. just the E6800 processor under load uses 67W, E6300(B2) uses 45W, E6300(L2) uses 37W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted February 25, 2008 CID Share Posted February 25, 2008 I found an Antec 1000W Power Supply between 80%-85% efficient. So you can only put a load of 800w on the PSU. False. The wattage number is how much watt it can support after conversion, so if a 1000W PSU is 80% efficient at 1kW, then it takes 1000*(0.^-1 or 1.25kW from the socket. Also note that the efficiency depends completely on the load, for a general PSU it's the most efficient around 50% of its maximum wattage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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