I was wondering if I could run an Radeon HD 4770 on my 450 watt PSU. I had run an 4600 previous but it fried. Now I'm running a Geforce 8600 and I'm sorta sick of it not being able to run anything. It also says that the 4770 runs at min. of 450 watts but I'm not sure.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2756/9 As long as you're not running multiple hard-drives or optical-drives, you shouldn't have a problem. But what CPU and how many sticks of RAM do you currently have installed?
[QUOTE="ProudLarry"] As long as you're not running multiple hard-drives or optical-drives, you shouldn't have a problem. But what CPU and how many sticks of RAM do you currently have installed? Im running an Intel Core 2 Quad Q 6600 Processor and have 3 gigabytes of DDR-2 Ram.
Im running a HD4870 + 3 HDD's + 2 DDR3 Sticks + PII 545 on a 430 Watt PSU. I was completely amazed when It all worked, and Iv never had any issues with it before. I think it really dependson the quality of your PSU.
Im running a HD4870 + 3 HDD's + 2 DDR3 Sticks + PII 545 on a 430 Watt PSU. I was completely amazed when It all worked, and Iv never had any issues with it before. I think it really dependson the quality of your PSU.
Kamuikankatsu
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and people go bollocks on me telling others to run a 4670 on a 300w psu
Im running a HD4870 + 3 HDD's + 2 DDR3 Sticks + PII 545 on a 430 Watt PSU. I was completely amazed when It all worked, and Iv never had any issues with it before. I think it really dependson the quality of your PSU.
Kamuikankatsu
That's good to know so it should run on 450 watts. Is there any noticeable difference between a 4770 and a 4870?
You should be fine, give it a shot. No point buying a new psu that you dont need. although, if you have the money in the future may aswell upgrade that psu to something a little better.
[QUOTE="imneedy"]I forgot to ask will it run on PCI-E 1.0?imneedy
Yes. PCI-E is PCI-E.
Well then why is there different versiona of it? There's 2.0 and 3.0, this a 2.0 card.
The 2.0 and 3.0 revisions have more available bandwidth for GPUs that are really fast ane need tons of PCI-E bandwidth. However, PCI-E 2.0 cards are backwards compatible with PCI-E 1.0 slots.
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