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WilliamWatts on 16 January 2010
CatFangs806 said:

My quad core uses about 45W at load, although I've never actually maxed it out. The only thing I need to know now is how much of my power supply is being used with everything that's already in it. If the quad core uses 45W out of 350W, then the rest of the parts should be all right. I just don't want to fry my computer overloading my PSU. Is there a way to tell how many watts of my power supply is being used?

I think your quad has a TDP of 95W, but overall your system should come in at or under half the rated power from your PSU so you'd be absolutely fine with that card. I used an HD 4670 with a 65W dual core on an ultra small microatx which is kinda cheap so you'll be fine! All you need is to install it and it'll boost your system performance considerably in both Flash video along with encoding and games.



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CatFangs806 on 16 January 2010
Soleron said:
CatFangs806 said:
WilliamWatts said:
CatFangs806 said:

My power supply is only 350Watts, though. I don't want to have to replace that. Is there a good graphics card that can run on that and at least run Crysis fairly high along with other new games?

My quad core uses about 45W at load, although I've never actually maxed it out. The only thing I need to know now is how much of my power supply is being used with everything that's already in it. If the quad core uses 45W out of 350W, then the rest of the parts should be all right. I just don't want to fry my computer overloading my PSU. Is there a way to tell how many watts of my power supply is being used?

You should be fine. Where did you measure 45W?

I think I read it on Tom's Hardware where they were doing benchmarks.