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need assistance!!
- Jan 24, 2013 8:38 am GMT
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I have a 250 Watt PSU (I'm not a PC gamer) and I want to get a quad core that requires 125W. IS that enough or do I need a new PSU?
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- Jan 24, 2013 8:50 am GMT
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Does your mother board support the C.P.U. socket? Is your motherboard AM3/ LG1155 or whatever? And I doubt that a 250 watt P.S.U. is good enough to P.C. game anymore. Do you have a video card? A 250 watt Power supply usually comes with only older computers who have out dated other parts.
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- Jan 24, 2013 8:51 am GMT
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Monta Ellis: "Kobe is #1, I'm #2, lebron is #3"
[QUOTE="roulettethedog"]Does your mother board support the C.P.U. socket? Is your motherboard AM3/ LG1155 or whatever? And I doubt that a 250 watt P.S.U. is good enough to P.C. game anymore. Do you have a video card? A 250 watt Power supply usually comes with only older computers who have out dated other parts.
[/QUOTE] The motherboard is AM3 and I have no video card.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jan 24, 2013 9:09 am GMT
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If you have a decent AM3 C.P.U., you would be better off getting a good P.S.U. plus a video card.
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- Jan 24, 2013 9:15 am GMTGigabyte Windforce GTX 660 | AMD Phenom IIx6 1055T @3.75GHz | Thermaltake SpinQ VT | Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 | 8GB Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2 1600MHz | Samsung 250GB 840 SSD | Seagate 1TB Black | Toshiba Canivo Basic 1TB External | Rosewill Blackhawk | Seasonic X-850 | Win7 64bit | Samsung SyncMaster 2233 | Samsung SyncMaster 953BW | Mionix Naos 8200 | Dualshock 3 - Wiimote Plus - XBOX 360 Wireless | Klipsch ProMedia 2.1I don't think it will work. My sister has an microATX AM3 mobo and had a 300W PSU, and she just got a PIIx4 965 BE. Right after the boot screen it would flash into colors. After upgrading a little to a 500W, everything worked just fine. To be clear, she had only 2x2 sticks of 1333 ram, no gpu, and an old IDE HDD. Even I thought at first that the 300W PSU could support the 125W chip, but no (we were upgrading an *old* Emerex prebuilt lol).
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- Jan 24, 2013 11:51 am GMT
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Monta Ellis: "Kobe is #1, I'm #2, lebron is #3"
alright I'll just get a new PSU also. Thanks
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