i installed the 9600 GT with a 375 watt PSU

Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsAwA-soldier

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsmusclesforcier

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

[QUOTE="musclesforcier"]

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsGeneral_X

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

not really, he is more likely to experience lockups then degraded performance.

[QUOTE="General_X"][QUOTE="musclesforcier"]

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsAndrew0987

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

not really, he is more likely to experience lockups then degraded performance.

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

AwA-soldier

thank you for the copy/paste :roll:

anyhow, he will be fine using a single 9600gt with a 375w psu as long as the rest of his pc isnt completely decked out.

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

Andrew0987

thank you for the copy/paste :roll:

anyhow, he will be fine using a single 9600gt with a 375w psu as long as the rest of his pc isnt completely decked out.

NP do some research that will help u.

[QUOTE="musclesforcier"]

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsGeneral_X

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

No, I mean 100% stable.

go on ebay and search your computer model and psu and this guy sells psu's that fit in dells

[QUOTE="Andrew0987"][QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

AwA-soldier

thank you for the copy/paste :roll:

anyhow, he will be fine using a single 9600gt with a 375w psu as long as the rest of his pc isnt completely decked out.

NP do some research that will help u.

The issue with underpowering your computer (not that it is being underpowered) is that the fans can't work like they should to cool your system properly. Overheating can be a problem, so I would make sure it's well ventilated.DarCowAlways

this post is so very wrong. your system will s*** bricks and reboot/lockup way before your fans stop working.

There are many guesses here....

Well, there is a lot of BS about PSU´s, the wattage recomended is a HUGE overpercentage, the actual wattage is never going to be as high as the manufactuer recomends.., and there is a lot of BS about the real wattage of the PSU.

There is many things to count in to recuirements of wattage, when the manufactuer give you the recuirement of how many watt the card will nead they already calculated the fake wattage of an PSU, and the recuirements ar for those fake PSU.

AND!_____ If I was to make a elevator and I´d spec it to 1ton, do you belive that 1.1ton brake the whole elevator? No most elevators spec. to 1ton are fylly able to handle 3-4tons or more, Im convinced the wattage spe. s the same way.

Ofc. the recomended wattage is in the wide safe range, so your card dont actual need the 450wattage PSU, that´s just not true.

Take the teoretic max wattage (google for your hardware) for each hardware and add those, withdraw 15-25% from that and you have your full load spec. (I´d guess that´ll be about 250watt)

Be shure you have a psu capable of a third more amp and wattage than you´ll need, then you should be fine.

Well i´d find a PSU calculator HERE

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

If it is a dell the psu might be proprietary. I don't know if dell's psus are of high quality, but you can probably fudge the 400w psu requirement a little. Andrew0987

Dell PSUs are of realtively low quality, but I know it would power a 9600gt just fine.

[QUOTE="Andrew0987"]If it is a dell the psu might be proprietary. I don't know if dell's psus are of high quality, but you can probably fudge the 400w psu requirement a little. DGFreak

Dell PSUs are of realtively low quality, but I know it would power a 9600gt just fine.

Actaully they are not low quality at all and it will have no problems with the 9600gt at all like I said in the begining. He could power a GTX if he wanted.

[QUOTE="Andrew0987"][QUOTE="General_X"][QUOTE="musclesforcier"]

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsAwA-soldier

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

not really, he is more likely to experience lockups then degraded performance.

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

actually NVidia recommends a 400w PSU for the 9600, not a 450w. Either way I doubt the 375w will cause any issues for the 9600GT.

Nothing more i can really say here, it'll work.

Bear in mind that the rating the manufacturur gives is to be relative to as many psu's as possible, so the very worst quality psu will run it at 400w, nut a decent quality psu like your dell one should have no problem running it.

I will up grade the PSU eventually, I have a dell dimension 9200. I heard that the 375 watt PSU could hold up fine as long as I don't have much in the rig ( my 7900 gs was practically dead ). My question is if any one has ever up graded their PSU on a dell dimension 9200? Thanks arangadillo

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsmusclesforcier

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]

A single GeForce 9600 GT requires you to have a 450 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 26 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

A second GeForce 9600 GT installed on this system requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total) at least 36 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.

Andrew0987

thank you for the copy/paste :roll:

anyhow, he will be fine using a single 9600gt with a 375w psu as long as the rest of his pc isnt completely decked out.

He/she will know for sure if games lock in in the first half hour of the games consistently.

[QUOTE="musclesforcier"]

[QUOTE="AwA-soldier"]Is better for u to update ur psu for in the future u don't have any problemsSpybot_9

Nonesence, the Dell 375 watt psu has been proven to run a 8800gtx without problems. A 9600gt will be perfectly fine on that psu.

Go onto the Dell forums and see how many people are running 8800 with their 375watt Dell PSUs succesfully. Dell ships the 8800GTX with that PSU sometimes and Dell doesn't ship unstable systems.