Can my power supply be slightly under spec for a 4670 GPU?
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:13 am
Hi people,
I am upgrading from integrated graphics on my audio server to something that will allow me to play with a coverflow component in foobar.
I won't be gaming but need something with good GPU memory as the coverflow component makes fairly heavy use of OpenGL.
After some research I am leaning towards the Club 3D HD 4670 (Radeon 4670 chipset, 1GB GDDR3) PCIe card. I have a stock 380W power supply that I'd rather not change (not entirely sure but think I stuck in the 380W SEASONIC S12-380W PSU rather than the stock 380W one that came with the case.
Anyway, my question is simply whether people here think I can get away with keeping that PSU....the system requirements for the graphics card spec a minimum of 400W PSU so I'm inclined to give it a try with my 380 W supply but I dunno how sensitive graphics cards are to the power supply they see.
Thx for comments and guidance,
Dave M
PS: The audioserver build is otherwise very basic...no CD-ROM just 2 SATA drives, an Athlon 64 X2 3600+ CPU with Scythe fan and Ninja Plus Rev. B cooling and a gig of RAM.
I am upgrading from integrated graphics on my audio server to something that will allow me to play with a coverflow component in foobar.
I won't be gaming but need something with good GPU memory as the coverflow component makes fairly heavy use of OpenGL.
After some research I am leaning towards the Club 3D HD 4670 (Radeon 4670 chipset, 1GB GDDR3) PCIe card. I have a stock 380W power supply that I'd rather not change (not entirely sure but think I stuck in the 380W SEASONIC S12-380W PSU rather than the stock 380W one that came with the case.
Anyway, my question is simply whether people here think I can get away with keeping that PSU....the system requirements for the graphics card spec a minimum of 400W PSU so I'm inclined to give it a try with my 380 W supply but I dunno how sensitive graphics cards are to the power supply they see.
Thx for comments and guidance,
Dave M
PS: The audioserver build is otherwise very basic...no CD-ROM just 2 SATA drives, an Athlon 64 X2 3600+ CPU with Scythe fan and Ninja Plus Rev. B cooling and a gig of RAM.