nVidia Geforce 8400GS 512MB Budget Card Good Enough To Play Source Games (High Settings)? - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;30732268']I'm not sure his 300 watt PSU can handle a HD4870[/QUOTE] Well my Q6600, 4870, four DDR2 modules, 5 harddrives, case fans, sound card, optical drive, all used only about 290watts at the wall while in LinX and furmark. [editline]27th June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Killowatt;30732630]I could use that very well, I have a GeForce 9100. I can't run newer games really at all and Source seems to make my graphics card struggle with shaders so bad I have to put it on DX 8.0 to get rid of them, for about 30 FPS[/QUOTE] I'd send it to you if you could support the card. While I did spend 260 bucks on it 3 years ago, I have little use for it. The fact that it's an AMD card before OpenCL so I can't use it for anything. AMD is fantastic at stuff like that.

Brt5470 you're a cool cat.

[QUOTE=Cjmax;30734916]Ok. I will trust you. Im going to do a tiny bit of research on that card and I'll get back to the threads and post if I'm going to get it. Oh, and it says its 64bit. I dont have a 64bit os. Does that matter?[/QUOTE] Most of those power requirements are grossly over estimated to cover their ass. [img]http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/5450_020310223624/21606.png[/img] that is total system draw of a i7, 16gb ram, 2HDD's raid 0, and a few case fans and LEDs nope that is just a memory interface, don't worry about it

I'm going to mail my 600watt Power supply and my 4870 to him tomorrow or tuesday, it looks like. The card is effectively worthless to me, so I'm glad someone excited to get it.

I love you Brt5470 :h:

[QUOTE=gunguy765;30729551]My GT 240 can max out source game, so get that.[/QUOTE] My brother has this, and it maxes out WoW and Source just fine at 1080p. Good price to performance ratio.

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;30731210']Then get the 9800 and install it in this PC when you leave take the 9800 with you and replace 5450 in cyberpower When you come back (if you do) install 5450 in emachines[/QUOTE] I'm just going to throw this out but you do know the 9800 is just the 8800 with a thinner GPU and costs $10-$20 more because of that?

[QUOTE=Brt5470;30735377]I'm going to mail my 600watt Power supply and my 4870 to him tomorrow or tuesday, it looks like. The card is effectively worthless to me, so I'm glad someone excited to get it.[/QUOTE] You are an extraordinary person.

[QUOTE=EDDY TT;30743151]I'm just going to throw this out but you do know the 9800 is just the 8800 with a thinner GPU and costs $10-$20 more because of that?[/QUOTE] i'm aware of that i suggested a 9800 because it's easier on his PSU

I cleaned the cooler, cleaned all the memory and die, put on MX-4 and it idles at 55c at 30% fan instead of 68c. :buddy: If he leaves it on auto it will be fine. [editline]27th June 2011[/editline] it loads at 76c, better than 91c like it did before unless I ramped up the fans.

[QUOTE=Cjmax;30731057] Sorry for not clearing this up. I'd rate myself dumb but I really dont feel like being called a loser [B]by a website[/B].[/QUOTE] Hey we are people to! Btw, how hard can it be to save up a few bucks? 5450 is ok or get the 4870 from brt its amazing.

Brt - people like you slowly restore my faith in humanity (which I've long lost).

[QUOTE=Crhem van der B;30761291]Brt - people like you slowly restore my faith in humanity (which I've long lost).[/QUOTE] :smugdog: I'll be shipping them out today once I get off work. I put the power supply in my Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold box. The box is huge and it's fucking gold. Gold.

Shipped :buddy: Hope you enjoy it man, it will be there next tuesday.

[QUOTE=Cjmax;30733444]Ok.. turns out I have a 550w PSU. So, if I have 550w to start with... lets take away the processor power... 550-130w = 420... 420 - RAM (3w) = 417 417 - HDD (30w) = 387 After the biggest power suckers are all added up I still have a little under 387w left on my psu for usage. So I can support the 4870... I just need the cable, right?[/QUOTE] lol. hard drives suck less than 10 watts.