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This little card is decent but they say 300w psu for it. Ijust bought one june 8th and have it installed in a 250w power supply system and have been running flawless for a few days now. The card itself has no fan and only sits in the agp slot on the mother board it does not connect to the psu at all. I don't know that much about this NVIDIA chip set but I am watching my computer carefully to see if anything slows down or messes up. but so far everything seems good with my set up. I have a HP Pavilion a510n computer 2 years old now. any one have anything else on this video card they would like to share.?
I run a grahics card (AGP 8x) a more powerful (9000 Series) than this, but it works well, I like the GeForce Nvidia ADP cards.
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The FX 5200 Heatsync is great too; and I have an ASUS AGP and PCI Express Motherboard
Most people just answered with either:
CPU
Motherboard
or Graphics card.
Actualy, it's the powersupply. Simply because you can have shitty-everything, but the computer still works. Get a shitty powersupply, and you're fudged.
So My advice would be to run at least what the card asks for, if not more. Most PSUs are advertised as being better than they actualy are, so always get the best PSU you can at the time.
Nowadays, I don't know anyone who will use anything below 400Watt.
I'd be really observant with that card if you're running a 250 when it asks for 300. There's a reason they ask for 300. If I were you, I'd hold off doing any hard-core gaming or such with it, until a more powerful PSU was obtainable. It not only sucks when you're in the middle of a level and your computer dies, it can also damage it.
You Have a very valid point there Gutterclown. I am being careful. although ive seen cards that are better then this one and only require 250w so im guessing it should be fine. This is a older card anyways i think.
I asked the tech support from the company who made my pc and they said my pc should manage it. I don't really do any really big or demanding games anyways.