PC Peripherals 300 w PSU for 4670 ???

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saqib_khan

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Hey Guys,

My friend has this VIP 300 W SMPS, which came with the cabinet. He wants to insert a 4670. His Config is:
AMD X2 4200+
2 GB RAM
160 GB HD
DVD RW
1 Internal tv tuner card.

Now the reason why am I asking this question. Read the neweggs customer review here Read the second review, it says :
Pros: Superior cooling to other 4670's. Low power consumption unbelievable 7watts on idle! my 300 watt psu was plenty.
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So , will this PSU be enough for that?


V Input Voltage Current Frequency
230 W A/c 5 Amp 50 Hz-80 Hz
V Output 3.3 V 5 v 12 v 12 V 5 VSB
22 Amp 20 Amp 15+14 Amp 0.8 Amp 2 Amp
Max 150 W 200 W 10 W 10 W
280 W

What say guys.
 
It may work, but I wouldnt use any external card on those PSU's, had a VIP 400 watts gold PSU, and it barely was able to run a 5 yr old tech (9800 pro)...
 
old gen cards consumed hell lotta power due to much higher fab, and if im right, 9800Pro was some 110nm fab.

4670 should surelly work w/o any problems if the PSU built is good and ratings are correct.
 
200w on 12v rail shud be enough as the card is sub 70W one[maximum load]. And Athlon X2 4200+ is energy efficient proccy with tdp of bout 80w i think.
 
Yes it should be enough

Followed this link and compared it with Gigabyte 460w .

It'll be absolutely fine.

The difference is in 5v where gigabyte 460w gives 30A but ur psu gives 20A.

Total Power of your psu is also good enough comparable to Gigabyte 460w for ATI 4670

From my part its thumbs up :hap2::hap2::hap2::hap2:

Moreover at idle ATI 4670 consumes 67 watt and at load 139 watts . So still pretty much headroom left . Nothing to worry

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3405&p=9
 
Anubis said:
Moreover at idle ATI 4670 consumes 67 watt and at load 139 watts . So still pretty much headroom left . Nothing to worry
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check, its total power consumption of entire system, not GPU alone.
 
dOm1naTOr said:
old gen cards consumed hell lotta power due to much higher fab, and if im right, 9800Pro was some 110nm fab.

4670 should surelly work w/o any problems if the PSU built is good and ratings are correct.
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Actually nopes, the card was much slower its just not the manufacturing process, according to that logic, a pentium 2 should draw much more power as compared to the current generation of processors.

A lil bit of googling 4670 is rated to draw 59W at max load:

Video Card Comparison - GPUReview.com

9800 pro drew 47 watts:

Power Consumption of Contemporary Graphics Accelerators. Part I: Graphics Cards on ATI Chips (page 8) - X-bit labs

In addition I had a higher rated PSU (supposedly), I would not recommend that PSU by any margins!!

Also do not blindly believe the ratings on Indian PSU's including the 12V and 5V readings, they are grossly over rated. I would be surprised if a VIP 400 watts managed even a 250 watts combined draw.
 
ok, so I am again confused. Actually, Aces170 has a point. Its 280 W rated PSU, but ofcourse its efficiency will not be 80 %.
 
^^ far from it, my VIP 400 watts gold one burned off twice (RMAed including), my Radeon 9800 pro died soon after that, although I am not sure if the PSU accelerated the death or not (9800 pro's didnt have a shelf life more then 2 years..)
 
yes it should barely work fine.....HD 4670 max power consumption would be 75 watts at full load.

75w+90w+25w

190w wolud be a rough guess for ur system under load ......j
 
BTW, for my knowledge, what's most important: The amperes or total wattage? The amperes on 5v rail are most important? Like Anubis said, that this PSU has 20 A on 5v rail, so thats most important, for graphic card?
 
That VIP 300W power supply was suggested to me by the friendly neighbourhood computer shop chap for around 600 INR IIRC, indicating this was a notch better than the junk no-name power supplies. I'd rate it in the same lines as those of the no-name power supplies - felt absolutely light when held, barely enough connectors and that bold red VIP logo. Wouldn't trust those ratings on the sticker either.
 
Amperage on 12v rail is most important, which comes out to be the total wattage on 12v rail. Suppose its 200W on 12v total, then its 200/12=16.6A max.

Dont try to OC GPU or Proccy, atleast with this PSU. ALso cpu and gpu wont work 100% more than a few secs even while intense gaming.

amperage on 5v rails dont matter these days. Its mostly used for mechanical parts like in hdd, odd, mobo connected fan [speed controlling], and to some extend...powering some pci devices thru mobo slot.

cpu and gpu makes use of 12v rails.

I dont know how much you can trust this brand. But if the ratings given is correct, then it should work without any problem.
 
Ok Guys, then I would tell him to try with this PSU first, if the PC will not run stable, he can upgrade to a better PSU. BTW, he'll not OC it, for sure.

Edit: @thanx dominator for that explanation.
 
saqib_khan said:
Ok Guys, then I would tell him to try with this PSU first, if the PC will not run stable, he can upgrade to a better PSU. BTW, he'll not OC it, for sure.

Edit: @thanx dominator for that explanation.
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Yes try that suggestion out.
 
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