Last Question on FX5700 before I buy it please.

Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2 Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike

"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
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Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike







All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.

Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w.

Will that be enough?

Thanks

"NDF" wrote in message
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"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce
FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike







All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their
outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the
easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.

"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w.

Will that be enough?

Thanks

"NDF" wrote in message
...

"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce
FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space
for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number,
power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the
g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike







All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their
outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the
easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.





Very unusual for a PSU not to have it's specs printed on it.

300W should be enough, but if you encounter problems then you will now
either way.

How much you paying for the FX5700 ?

Why get the 5700. I read that you can get the more powerful 5900 (either XT
version) or regular 5900 for only $30.00 more or so.


"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 13:53:03 +1300, william bell
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:15:26 -0500, "Eric" wrote:

Why get the 5700. I read that you can get the more powerful 5900 (either XT
version) or regular 5900 for only $30.00 more or so.




Yes get a Gigabyte FX2900XT great card..



Isn't that the cheesy one that's the same as the SE version --- 700MHz
memory instead of 850MHz for the regular FX5900 non-Ultra ?

Newegg had the eVGA FX5900/128 400GPU/850Mem on sale today
01/06/04 for one day @$220, free Fedex shipping. I tried to post this
info to the NG, but my stupid ISPs server apparently failed to upload
any of my postings.

John Lewis



"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike

Uh... no. You could have a 180watt POS PSU installed... actually, it
would be an ILLEAGAL PSU without a label on it. It means its a POS if
they don't label it.

Don't buy any more PC stuff from that store - if they're willing to
sell ****, they themselves are ****.

PSU failure can mean dead PSU as well as possiblity of blowing up the
system and new video card.

Buy a $35 - 300watt PSU from Enlight or a $50~70 PSU from Antec,
Enermax, Fortron, thermaltake...



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:25:24 -0000, "Mike Spezzano"
wrote:

Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w.

Will that be enough?

Thanks

All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their
outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the
easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

£150 from dabs
"NDF" wrote in message
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"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
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Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w.

Will that be enough?

Thanks

"NDF" wrote in message
...

"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce
FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space
for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number,
power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace
the
g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike







All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their
outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the
easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.





Very unusual for a PSU not to have it's specs printed on it.

300W should be enough, but if you encounter problems then you will now
either way.

How much you paying for the FX5700 ?

Thanks. But don't think it is. SImply usually use decent components. Its
probably labelled on the side I can't get too and I can't be arsed to pull
it out. I'm gonna take a gamble and buy the card anyway and see.

From looking at magazines from around 2002 it seems simply were fitting 300w
psus in their systems so I should be ok.

Thanks anyway

"Darthy" wrote in message
...
Uh... no. You could have a 180watt POS PSU installed... actually, it
would be an ILLEAGAL PSU without a label on it. It means its a POS if
they don't label it.

Don't buy any more PC stuff from that store - if they're willing to
sell ****, they themselves are ****.

PSU failure can mean dead PSU as well as possiblity of blowing up the
system and new video card.

Buy a $35 - 300watt PSU from Enlight or a $50~70 PSU from Antec,
Enermax, Fortron, thermaltake...



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:25:24 -0000, "Mike Spezzano"
wrote:

Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w.

Will that be enough?

Thanks

All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their
outer
casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the
easiest
way to check is to phyisically remove it.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37:29 +1300, william bell
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 04:44:16 GMT, (John Lewis) wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 13:53:03 +1300, william bell
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:15:26 -0500, "Eric" wrote:

Why get the 5700. I read that you can get the more powerful 5900 (either XT
version) or regular 5900 for only $30.00 more or so.




Yes get a Gigabyte FX2900XT great card..



Isn't that the cheesy one that's the same as the SE version --- 700MHz
memory instead of 850MHz for the regular FX5900 non-Ultra ?

Newegg had the eVGA FX5900/128 400GPU/850Mem on sale today
01/06/04 for one day @$220, free Fedex shipping. I tried to post this
info to the NG, but my stupid ISPs server apparently failed to upload
any of my postings.

John Lewis



Yes similar has a nice blue led in the fan and the Ram heat sinks are under
the fan cover almost the same card..

But I type the wrong number its a FX5900XT..

But the review on the eVGA only got 5200 3Dmarks and I get 5402, but the
reviews seem to think that the eVGA can over clock better than what I can
get..


Sorry, the review was a comparison between the eVGA SE version
and the Gigabyte XT.

The board advertised on Newegg for $220 was the genuine non-crippled,
non-XT,non-SE version with 850MHz memory. I have one of them which I
bought last August. Works like a champ. The XT/SE not only have cheesy
performance, they also have flimsier heat-sinks.

John Lewis



Here is one of the reviews..

http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2...t/index.x?pg=1



"Mike Spezzano" wrote in message
...
Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700
Ultra 128mb.

I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w.

I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for
this
rather large card.

Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power
rating, nothing.

I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers.

Athlon XP1600+
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM
40gb HD
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
DVD Rom
CD-RW
External USB port with its own mains power supply
MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard
Win XP Home

At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever.

I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply.

Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2
Ti?
Anyone know the watts this card uses?

Many many thanks

Mike