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6600GT and needed power supply
OK. Bought a 6600GT AGP online for $216. Works great - after I had to
take care of one little thing. Now, I had researched this card in the last few weeks. Either here in this newsgroup - somewhere anyway, I read that the minimum power supply for the 6600GT was 300 watts. Well forget it. At least the one I bought. I didn't see the power supply requirements listed online when I bought, nor did I look at the box when received, and I installed it. Worked fine until I loaded any game where the graphics acceleration would kick in, and then my computer crashed to nothingness, and I had to cold boot. Finally after several things tried, I looked at the box. "minimum of a 450 watt power supply is needed". So I went and bought a 500 watt power supply, and it works great. Actually I bought a fancy looking 600 watt power supply 1st, took it home, carefully & meticulously installed it correctly, even tying up wires here & there to get them out of the way, started my computer, the light came on, after two second, dead. Thought I blew it and fried my computer. Come to find out, after taking the darned thing in because I had no ideas, that the power supply was bad. Let that be a lesson to you guys, fancy schmansy 600 watt power crazy wanting people, be careful what brand you buy, I of course never would buy anything from that company again. There ought to be some kind of consumer protection laws out there that would reimburse me for the time it took me to install an item that was defective & had to be replaced. If the store is going to charge me $45 to install a power supply, then my time should be worth at least half of that. & what about traveling & gas & wear & tear on my car? & esp3cially what about the mental aguish I felt when I thought I had fried my computer and maybe everything in it? ...D. |
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"...D." wrote in message news OK. Bought a 6600GT AGP online for $216. Works great - after I had to take care of one little thing. Now, I had researched this card in the last few weeks. Either here in this newsgroup - somewhere anyway, I read that the minimum power supply for the 6600GT was 300 watts. Well forget it. At least the one I bought. I didn't see the power supply requirements listed online when I bought, nor did I look at the box when received, and I installed it. Worked fine until I loaded any game where the graphics acceleration would kick in, and then my computer crashed to nothingness, and I had to cold boot. Finally after several things tried, I looked at the box. "minimum of a 450 watt power supply is needed". So I went and bought a 500 watt power supply, and it works great. Actually I bought a fancy looking 600 watt power supply 1st, took it home, carefully & meticulously installed it correctly, even tying up wires here & there to get them out of the way, started my computer, the light came on, after two second, dead. Thought I blew it and fried my computer. Come to find out, after taking the darned thing in because I had no ideas, that the power supply was bad. Let that be a lesson to you guys, fancy schmansy 600 watt power crazy wanting people, be careful what brand you buy, I of course never would buy anything from that company again. There ought to be some kind of consumer protection laws out there that would reimburse me for the time it took me to install an item that was defective & had to be replaced. If the store is going to charge me $45 to install a power supply, then my time should be worth at least half of that. & what about traveling & gas & wear & tear on my car? & esp3cially what about the mental aguish I felt when I thought I had fried my computer and maybe everything in it? ...D. Very interesting comment. I, too and many other have that same comment when that situation occured. But I never effectively doing / acting on it. I hope you will act on it and hope to see that comment become law. CapFusion,... |
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I bought a 550 watt Antec power supply unit (PSU), but it did fry my =
motherboard. =20 I contacted Antec and they said it was a problem with my motherboard and = not that PSU, even though my computer was working fine until I replaced = the PSU. They said the only thing they can do it replace the PSU (not = the motherboard). Needless to say, I won't be purchasing anything from = Antec again. |
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I had almost the same with a fx5900, i got messages that i have insufficient
power and the card switched to a lower mode.So i thought what i going on?I pressed the connector to the videocard,enz. The strange thing was that i bought a new powersupply 3 months before i got the videocard,this was the Qtec 500 watt version, so i thought i was safe. Alright i began to look why i had still insufficient power, and i found on the internet the answer;Qtec did a little marketing trick;the 500watts were peak ratings!!!!thus not the nominal ratings!!! You can understand that i was shocked so i bought a powersupply from a good brand;tagan 480w, if you have this brand you will notice the difference like the cables, even the powercord is shielded and filtered!!!!! How is it possible that they can fool people like this, i mean you think you buy a 500 watt powersupply but you will get a 350 watt powersupply, for example.This is really misleading customers!!!!! "...D." schreef in bericht news OK. Bought a 6600GT AGP online for $216. Works great - after I had to take care of one little thing. Now, I had researched this card in the last few weeks. Either here in this newsgroup - somewhere anyway, I read that the minimum power supply for the 6600GT was 300 watts. Well forget it. At least the one I bought. I didn't see the power supply requirements listed online when I bought, nor did I look at the box when received, and I installed it. Worked fine until I loaded any game where the graphics acceleration would kick in, and then my computer crashed to nothingness, and I had to cold boot. Finally after several things tried, I looked at the box. "minimum of a 450 watt power supply is needed". So I went and bought a 500 watt power supply, and it works great. Actually I bought a fancy looking 600 watt power supply 1st, took it home, carefully & meticulously installed it correctly, even tying up wires here & there to get them out of the way, started my computer, the light came on, after two second, dead. Thought I blew it and fried my computer. Come to find out, after taking the darned thing in because I had no ideas, that the power supply was bad. Let that be a lesson to you guys, fancy schmansy 600 watt power crazy wanting people, be careful what brand you buy, I of course never would buy anything from that company again. There ought to be some kind of consumer protection laws out there that would reimburse me for the time it took me to install an item that was defective & had to be replaced. If the store is going to charge me $45 to install a power supply, then my time should be worth at least half of that. & what about traveling & gas & wear & tear on my car? & esp3cially what about the mental aguish I felt when I thought I had fried my computer and maybe everything in it? ...D. |
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Hah! I just looked up power supplies at Amazon. The Antec 550 is rated five
stars by five reviewers. I'd have bought it based on that. "John Eckart" wrote in message ... I bought a 550 watt Antec power supply unit (PSU), but it did fry my motherboard. I contacted Antec and they said it was a problem with my motherboard and not that PSU, even though my computer was working fine until I replaced the PSU. They said the only thing they can do it replace the PSU (not the motherboard). Needless to say, I won't be purchasing anything from Antec again. |
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"jo" wrote You can understand that i was shocked so i bought a powersupply from a good brand;tagan 480w tom's hardware has had several Tagans fail. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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What you want to look for is the amperage rating of each voltage rail,
mainly the 3.3 volt, 5 and 12. DaveL "jo" wrote in message ... I had almost the same with a fx5900, i got messages that i have insufficient power and the card switched to a lower mode.So i thought what i going on?I pressed the connector to the videocard,enz. The strange thing was that i bought a new powersupply 3 months before i got the videocard,this was the Qtec 500 watt version, so i thought i was safe. Alright i began to look why i had still insufficient power, and i found on the internet the answer;Qtec did a little marketing trick;the 500watts were peak ratings!!!!thus not the nominal ratings!!! You can understand that i was shocked so i bought a powersupply from a good brand;tagan 480w, if you have this brand you will notice the difference like the cables, even the powercord is shielded and filtered!!!!! How is it possible that they can fool people like this, i mean you think you buy a 500 watt powersupply but you will get a 350 watt powersupply, for example.This is really misleading customers!!!!! "...D." schreef in bericht news OK. Bought a 6600GT AGP online for $216. Works great - after I had to take care of one little thing. Now, I had researched this card in the last few weeks. Either here in this newsgroup - somewhere anyway, I read that the minimum power supply for the 6600GT was 300 watts. Well forget it. At least the one I bought. I didn't see the power supply requirements listed online when I bought, nor did I look at the box when received, and I installed it. Worked fine until I loaded any game where the graphics acceleration would kick in, and then my computer crashed to nothingness, and I had to cold boot. Finally after several things tried, I looked at the box. "minimum of a 450 watt power supply is needed". So I went and bought a 500 watt power supply, and it works great. Actually I bought a fancy looking 600 watt power supply 1st, took it home, carefully & meticulously installed it correctly, even tying up wires here & there to get them out of the way, started my computer, the light came on, after two second, dead. Thought I blew it and fried my computer. Come to find out, after taking the darned thing in because I had no ideas, that the power supply was bad. Let that be a lesson to you guys, fancy schmansy 600 watt power crazy wanting people, be careful what brand you buy, I of course never would buy anything from that company again. There ought to be some kind of consumer protection laws out there that would reimburse me for the time it took me to install an item that was defective & had to be replaced. If the store is going to charge me $45 to install a power supply, then my time should be worth at least half of that. & what about traveling & gas & wear & tear on my car? & esp3cially what about the mental aguish I felt when I thought I had fried my computer and maybe everything in it? ...D. |
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I didn't know that, i will have a look.
Anyway it's better then the qtec i had. "Ed Light" schreef in bericht news:KnMyd.1586$yW5.493@fed1read02... "jo" wrote You can understand that i was shocked so i bought a powersupply from a good brand;tagan 480w tom's hardware has had several Tagans fail. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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"jo" wrote I didn't know that, i will have a look. It's here under Dec. 21 http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041217/index.html -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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6600GT itself should draw no more than 75W of power (because it is PCI-E
limitation and 6600GT is completely supplied by PCI-E bus). Indeed, mine runs fine in Shuttle SN85G4V2 with 240W power supply. But I gess tou need real power, not fancy looking label on power supply. Mirek "...D." píse v diskusním príspevku news OK. Bought a 6600GT AGP online for $216. Works great - after I had to take care of one little thing. Now, I had researched this card in the last few weeks. Either here in this newsgroup - somewhere anyway, I read that the minimum power supply for the 6600GT was 300 watts. Well forget it. At least the one I bought. I didn't see the power supply requirements listed online when I bought, nor did I look at the box when received, and I installed it. Worked fine until I loaded any game where the graphics acceleration would kick in, and then my computer crashed to nothingness, and I had to cold boot. Finally after several things tried, I looked at the box. "minimum of a 450 watt power supply is needed". So I went and bought a 500 watt power supply, and it works great. Actually I bought a fancy looking 600 watt power supply 1st, took it home, carefully & meticulously installed it correctly, even tying up wires here & there to get them out of the way, started my computer, the light came on, after two second, dead. Thought I blew it and fried my computer. Come to find out, after taking the darned thing in because I had no ideas, that the power supply was bad. Let that be a lesson to you guys, fancy schmansy 600 watt power crazy wanting people, be careful what brand you buy, I of course never would buy anything from that company again. There ought to be some kind of consumer protection laws out there that would reimburse me for the time it took me to install an item that was defective & had to be replaced. If the store is going to charge me $45 to install a power supply, then my time should be worth at least half of that. & what about traveling & gas & wear & tear on my car? & esp3cially what about the mental aguish I felt when I thought I had fried my computer and maybe everything in it? ...D. |
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