IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) my psu is a bestec 300Watt max but i see that 1950pro is the best thing to get my 8500 cost like 30$ more then that lol so i mean i can get a good card i think (on the side of the 8500 it says you need a 400watt i just want to get somthing that can play all my games to the max lol Edited July 12, 2007 by Lusafis Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Read my previous post, i edit'd it. Could you spell out your system spec's so i make sure i'm plugging in the right things in the PSU calculator. Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 this is what i have now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814133197 Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) http://www.pcpitstop.com/techexpress.asp?id=LVLEHW1WLKWSJA9W here is my pit test right nowi got DVD-RW burner DVD drive my 250gig hard drive my wireless internet card pentium 4 3.0 HT stick of 2 512MB and 2 256MB plus the grapichs card and thats about it also i got 2 fans and one lights up Edited July 12, 2007 by Lusafis Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) What size fans? Are they the PSU Fan, or other system fans? With all that the 7900GS came out at 271 Watts, and the 1950XT at 291. The 1950 would be much to close for my liking, however, i personally would be confortable running a 7900GS under that PSU, assuming the rail puts out 20 AMPS. Even though they recommend something higher, it's honestly overkill most of the time. As for the accuracy of this calculator, i determined what PSU i would be getting by plugging in my system specs on it, and it was dead on in terms of what it said, and what my power consumption truely is. Edited July 12, 2007 by porksandwich9113 Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) i came out with 327 lol i got two i THINK 80MM fan but i got two one on top of my tower and one of the side and one of them light up Edited July 12, 2007 by Lusafis Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 http://support.gateway.com/s/POWER/102544/102544nv.shtml this is my power supply Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) Herm, i looked at your Pittest, and plugged everything in with a 7900GS, it only came up with a 293 now after the fans, and realized you have 4 DIMMS of ram...what am i missing? And also, plugging in the same set-up with a 8500GT came up with 288. I would say the 7900GS is a go-go. Edited July 12, 2007 by porksandwich9113 Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 (edited) that is everything and i did the link for my power supply to actally nhere is a better pic of my powersupply tells everything http://www.affordablesurplus.com/bestec-at...ower-supply.asp Edited July 12, 2007 by Lusafis Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Sadly the crappy gateway sight doesn't tell me the amperage on your rail.. Lol, i can probably figure it out with a model number tho. Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 ok just look at my edited post Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Just read it. Honestly, i say go order that 7900GS! Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150202 I'd go with that one. After the rebate, it's actually the best 7900GS on newegg. Clock speeds kinda kill all the other ones on the site. And it comes with Ghost Recon, for free. (awesome game) Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 can the 7900 play fear and WoW at max settings??? if so then ill get that one =) Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I know it does wow, i watched my brother do it. As for fear, benchmarks say yes, as long as your not going at a resolution over 1280X1024. The 1950 is better, but i don't know if i would trust that PSU. Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 whats the worse thing it can do if i was to get the 1950pro??? Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Inaduquate power supply could cause anything from random shut downs when a load is being put on a system, instability. Maybe even die, and take another component with it. Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130056 so is this one a good card to then??/ Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Yep, it's not bad. The XFX EE one is about 15$ more after the rebate, and has a slightly higher clockspeed. 525/1550-XFX compared to 500/1380 - EVGA Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 ok i order that XFX 7900Gs you said to get hopfully it will get here really soon =) and hope it will work=( should i remove my 2 sticks of 256ram so my powersupply can handel the card???? or just leave it be and pray for it to work =( Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 (edited) ok i threw in my old X1300 so i can wait for my 7900 to arrive but when i put it in and i put the driver cd in and when it is installing a error message comes up and says setup was unable to complete the installation try to setup your display adapter with a standard vga driver before running the setup so i cant play any games becuase it says i dont have a grapichs card in lol Edited July 13, 2007 by Lusafis Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Did you make sure to uninstall the 8500 first? Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 well i unstalled the driver but i installed a thing called Ntune but when i try to unstall it it says (this software requires an nividia nforce 2 or nforce3 motherboard to operate no required porducts were detected installation will now be aborted Link to post Share on other sites
porksandwich9113 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Herm, you should try uninstalling it through a program like CCleaners function. http://www.ccleaner.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
IceBear Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 it wont let me it says the same thing... Link to post Share on other sites
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