The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

becasue EZ cool PSUs have actually blown up on people. they say 500W but they mean about 200W.

btw, yes the 4850 easily beats out the 9800GT. infact its on par with the GTS250.

use this PSU:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/Components/PowerSupplies/Corsair/CX400W.html

 

Alright then i shall definitely go with the ati card instead but are you sure about that power supply, it looks brilliant feature wise but will my pc run on a 400w psu ok? According to this psu calculator by asus i need 550w

 

oh most definately

sammorris here, our 25k+ poster had, for along time, an overclocked Q9550 (quad core at 3.6GHz) AND a 4870x2 with a 520W PSU, so you are perfectly fine

 

Oh right ok then sorry i think you must have missed it but if you look a couple of posts above, there is a pic of the psu calculator which says i have to have 550w

 

trust me. a corsair PSU which states it is 400W means it can easily take upto 500W. and when ASUS says 550Ws, its caus it wants to cover its arse when people use very cheap PSUs.

if there is ONE thing in your PC that should have quailty it is the PSU, as if its cheap, it can possibley kill you. and thats no joke.

 

Ok right sweeeeeet, thanks for all your help man your really great. Have you got like a +rep system on these forums that i can give you? I should be alright using the 4850 on my ezcool psu just until i can afford the corsair shouldn't i?

 

if you want to risk it, go ahead but i say get the PSU first and then the 4850.

 

Okeydoke, thanks for everything

 

Power supply calculators are absolute crap. I've seen some read 810W for PCs that only need 380-400W of power to run, they're shocking. A Corsair CX 400W PSU is ample for your system, whereas an EZCool 550W is certainly not sufficient.
Agreed on the HD4850 it blows the 9800GT out of the water (even the cheaper HD4830 beats a 9800GT)
Get the PSU first and then the graphics card. The PSU is the most important part of any PC, for safety reasons.

 

Yes i shall definitely get the psu first, i didn't realise that they were so dangerous, i mean i have had this psu for like a year now.

 

and it could literally catch fire at any moment...

 

Yeah what they said. PSU then video card. Hate to be a party pooper too but you will still have a bad CPU bottleneck with a Pentium D. Just saying... Even a new Celeron dual core will be worlds faster.

 

what resultuion monitor do you have. for games, still GPU>CPU for FPS.

 

Remember, PSU calculators, are simply showing the MAX MAX, PEAK PEAK, should one ever be running ALL hardware at their peak wattage Simultaneously. Which just isn't gonna happen. The calculator is completely mathematical. That is assuming that its information about given wattages is/are correct. Honestly, there not much more than a guideline. You only need a 550W PSU if you plan on running ALL the hardware in your tower simultaneously. Corsair is a good company. They UNDERRATE there PSU's. I love it when companies do that Certainly much better than a company that OVERRATES there shiznit! My primary system may very likely be running a time bomb! I will NOT make that mistake again. So far it has been OK though. As soon as i'm able, a Corsair will replace my current PSU. Now I just hope that I didn't hex the company LOL! *Knocks on wood*

 

Yeah Pentium Ds are pretty crap CPUs.
Example about PSUs: A 550W EZcool will be around 140W. A 430W Thermaltake will be 250W. A 700W OCZ will be 600W, A 750W Corsair will be 800W.

 

Wow... Surely there is a lawsuit in there somewhere, false advertising and what have you. Oh and also if I was going to get a new lga 775 socket cpu what would you reccomend?

 

Ehh...business is business. They have certain loopholes that allow them to get away with it. I've never owned an intel, afraid I can't help you there. Perhaps one day I'll own one, if they ever come down to a more affordable practical price LOL!

 

whats your budget?

 

Well i was kind of just thinking for the future really, just something with an lga 775 socket.

 

We need to know what motherboard you have, older boards can't always accept newer processors.