What video card for a modern power supply of 300W? I need to run a monitor at 1680 x 1050 LG using a dual core processor.
Current on the graphics card are in favor of 1680, but PC freezes on a regular basis, if I do. PC has a 300W power supply works with Vista and 4 GB of RAM. Any chance of DirectX10 as well?
All advice gratefully received. Manual says I can install a board NVidia 9300GE, but surely there must be a cheaper one than that? Just photo editing & std (not very high level) games.
Cheers everyone
You would probably upgrade your diet. 300W just will not cut it if you add a video card. Go http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalcul ... and he will give a good idea of how much power you need. It also has a list of video cards so you can see which ones use less energy.
This is a bit simpler:
http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucal ...
Not sure that referring to the manual, but the 9300 is an integrated graphics processor. This is part of the motherboard, not a removable card.
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_g ...
Without knowing the specifications of your system (make and model would have been useful), I recommend using a low-power graphics card if you do not plan to upgrade your diet. Radeon HD 4550 should be enough, and because you will use higher resolutions (1680x1050), the card should have a minimum of 512 MB of DDR3 or GDDR3 memory on it.
Posted on May 23, 2011.
