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Hardware / Dell Graphics Card Upgrade
« on: October 31, 2005, 11:32:50 AM »
Greetings,
I have recently purchased a Geforce 6600GT graphics card which, after many investigations, I have realised requires a 300 Watt PSU to function correctly. Currently, my system has a 250 Watt PSU.
Symptoms - some games will run OK, others crash regularly but any attempt to run any videos, mpegs etc results in Windows packing up and a hard reboot to get things going again.
I have been told today that there isnt a single power supply I can purchase that will physically fit into my chassis. Am I stuck with my old graphics card for all eternity?
I have tried saving watts by disconnecting the floppy drive which I barely use and removing an additional 512MB DDR RAM that i installed a while ago. The problems persist.
If anyone can help me on this, id greatly appreciate it. The sooner the better. Another day or two and I may have eaten my PC, the graphics card as well as all of the Dell support centre staff.
Regards
I have recently purchased a Geforce 6600GT graphics card which, after many investigations, I have realised requires a 300 Watt PSU to function correctly. Currently, my system has a 250 Watt PSU.
Symptoms - some games will run OK, others crash regularly but any attempt to run any videos, mpegs etc results in Windows packing up and a hard reboot to get things going again.
I have been told today that there isnt a single power supply I can purchase that will physically fit into my chassis. Am I stuck with my old graphics card for all eternity?
I have tried saving watts by disconnecting the floppy drive which I barely use and removing an additional 512MB DDR RAM that i installed a while ago. The problems persist.
If anyone can help me on this, id greatly appreciate it. The sooner the better. Another day or two and I may have eaten my PC, the graphics card as well as all of the Dell support centre staff.
Regards