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Greater power supply for 2 vid cards?
Hello. I have a microatx box with a single radeon 5450. I want to
add a second identical card to PCI2. The current card requires 400 watt min but box came with puny 350 watt. If I run 2 of these 5450s, what power will be needed? The system currently has this hardwa radeon 5450 pci sound card 2 hard drives 1 dvd MB onboard vid is disabled. Thanks for any help! |
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Greater power supply for 2 vid cards?
Nick Mirro wrote:
Hello. I have a microatx box with a single radeon 5450. I want to add a second identical card to PCI2. The current card requires 400 watt min but box came with puny 350 watt. If I run 2 of these 5450s, what power will be needed? The system currently has this hardwa radeon 5450 pci sound card 2 hard drives 1 dvd MB onboard vid is disabled. Thanks for any help! HD 5450 is listed as 9.2 watts, here. Power is not an issue. http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video...ysis_power.png If you're running multiple monitors, like doing stock trading and needing four monitors, that card would be a good choice. At only $30 or so, it's a good way to drive more displays. Using two of those cards as a gaming solution, is not going to be very good. In this example chart, that card is at the very bottom of the chart. Twice the performance, would still leave games at the bottom of the chart. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2...iast,2666.html Paul |
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