I recently purchased the Genuine 9800 gt video card and now I need a new power supply to replace my old 350 watts. I'm not that good when it comes to computer parts. I am thingking of buying the BFG Tech GS-550 550W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.8 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply and I curious if this PSU meets the requirements of my new graphic card.
Here's my graphic card requirements:
Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps.)
Minimum 450 Watt for SLI mode system.
An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector
The BFG Tech GS-550 550W specifications:
Model:
Brand BFG Tech
Model GS-550
Spec:
Type ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.8
Maximum Power 550W
Fans 140mm Thermal Controlled Fan
Main Connector 20+4Pin
+12V Rails 2
PCI-E Connectors 1 x 6Pin, 1 x 6+2Pin
CrossFire Ready
SLI Ready
Efficiency 80% to 85% Efficiency Typical
Over Voltage Protection Yes
MTBF >80,000 Hours
Features
Connectors 1 x Main connector (20+4Pin)
1 x 12V(4+4Pin)
4 x Peripheral
4 x SATA
1 x Floppy
2 x PCI-E
Features All Cables Sleeved w/ Nylon Mesh
Black Chrome Finish
Thermostatically Controlled 140mm Fan
Protection Circuitry (OVP, SCP)|||Should be fine, but you should have listed what system this is going in.
With a 350W PSU already in there I am guessing nothing more than a Pentium 4 OR at best a Celeron Dual Core.
EDIT:
The PSU considerations have to include more than just your CPU. Sure you could get away with running a quad-core with a motherboard that provides onboard graphics or using some of the more basic graphics cards which get their power solely from the motherboard, but if you start adding things like RAM and Hard drives as well as optical drives, the wattage required creeps up.
Add on top that some people like to experiment with overclocking at some point in their PC's life, a factory shipped 350w or 380w doesn't cut it.
A 350w or 380w PSU will comfortably run what's in a factory built machine when shipped, but when you want to add other things, you are nearly always better off upgrading the PSU as well.
Factory PSU's are not usually of a high build quality or good efficient design, especially on brands such as Packard Bell and using one could cost you more than a new PSU, it could cost a new CPU and motherboard.
As comment 2 states more clearly than I, PSU has 2xPCI-e power connectors = will work with the 9800GT which requires 2xPCI-e power connectors.|||See the 2xPCI-E?
Those are your graphics card connectors.
The 9800 requires 2 of them, the power supply provides 2.
It will work fine.
EDIT
To the guy above me, just some info.
Dell shipped my friend a QUAD CORE 4GB machine with a 350 Watt power supply.
My parents bought an HP Quad core with a 380 watt power supply.
I ran my Quad Core 8GB machine on a 400 watt for 6 months 24/7.
People will tell you that you need like 800 watts to run a new machine, thats entirely not true.
You will be fine with 550 watt|||Here is a link to 1 I bought and have been using for the last 2 months, it is very cheap considering it is an 800 mhz and has everything you will ever need and probably cheaper then the one you are looking at..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie…
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