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SABRESAllTheWay
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:22 pm 
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I currently have Image

Will something like

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageGall ... deo%20Card

THAT ^^^^^

Fit in the same slot?

Edit: Also will it potentially fry my motherboard?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:40 pm 
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Anything can potentially fry your motherboard. Will it fit? Not sure how much room you have in your case or how your mobo is set up. If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it ;)

The new card has dedicated power, the old one does not. If it's a OEM part (aka you bought a Dell and that's the video card that came with it), you might be under-powered. - make sure that 1) your power supply has the available connections, and 2) your system will still have excess power after plugging it in.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:03 pm 
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NYIntensity wrote:
Anything can potentially fry your motherboard. Will it fit? Not sure how much room you have in your case or how your mobo is set up. If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it ;)

The new card has dedicated power, the old one does not. If it's a OEM part (aka you bought a Dell and that's the video card that came with it), you might be under-powered. - make sure that 1) your power supply has the available connections, and 2) your system will still have excess power after plugging it in.

OK lets say i've got a 400 in there, and the new GPU needs 600 minimum, am I looking at needing a 800 or more like 1000 PSU?

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850W and up for sure....it depends on a lot of other things, but the most important one would be how many hard drives you're spinning.
My old rig had a 1200W PSU that on paper should have powered my dual SLI cards, the motherboard and 4 HDD's, but it would always fight until I ditched 2 of the drives.

Wattage and amperage should be on any tech spec sheet for all your components. Get the numbers, do the arithmetic, add 20% overhead ;)

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NYIntensity wrote:
If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it ;)


Sooooo lifting this quote as a new sig! :lol:

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