im planning on buying a geforce 6600gt. it says on review articles that i need a power supply with at least 300-watt.

well, i have a BESTEK atx-300 with 5v + 3.3v 180 watt max and 5v + 12v + 3.3v 288 watt max.

will it provide enough power?

thanks in advance.

check this thread:

http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/4739.html

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

Get at least a 400watt. Costs $50.

ASPIRE ATXB4KLW-AL Antec 400W
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD 3700+ San Diego
Corsair 1GB 2x512
eVGA 6600GT
250GB Hard Drive
Sound Blaster Audigy
Windows XP HOME W/SP2

And they also require an extra power cable to go straight into the card.

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Asus P4P800S mb
P4 2.4Ghz 800Mhz
1Gb DDR3200 Ram
Gigabyte 6600GT 128mb

How about a 420W for $37 shipped? :-)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153006

My PSU Specs are as follows:

Bestec
ModeL: ATX-300-12E
Rev: D
Input: 100-127V-6A
300W Max
200-240V-3A 60/50Hz
Output: +12v/15A
+5v/30A
+3.3v/28A
-12v/0.8A
+5VSB/2A
+5V & +3.3V/180w Max
+5V & +12v & +3.3V/288w Max

so you guys are saying 300 watt wont be enough?

im on a tight budget (~$150, the card costs $149) and i'd rather go for another card that requires less power than buy a card AND a psu.

ANY SUGGESTIONS??
(im planning on playing bf2 and other future games)

On a 2.4GHz, I wouldn't get a 6600GT anyway; it's overkill. Get a 9600 Pro and some more RAM.

heropsycho, would you please elaborate?

and isnt 9600 pro a little to slow to run bf2 and the sort?

9600 Pro for BF2 is crap, way to slow, you will get very low frame rates, even my Radeon X850 PE 256mb at max detail averages 50fps, BF2 is very demanding game

Get the Geforce 6600gt, it will work fine on your system, but would recommend at least a 400w PSU with at minimum 18amps in the 12V+ rail, I have a 450w PSU with 18amps on the 12V+ and my system is on 24/7 not one problem in almost a year :D

Windows XP Pro SP2
Athlon 64 3200 Socket 754
1GB DDR PC3200
Radeon X850XT 256MB PE AGP
Total 410GB HDD Space

"9600 Pro for BF2 is crap, way to slow, you will get very low frame rates, even my Radeon X850 PE 256mb at max detail averages 50fps, BF2 is very demanding game"

And a p4 2.4GHz CPU is really fast for BF2? And he realistically can't run max settings no matter what video card he gets. I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea why a 6600GT would be a good purchase when he's got a 2.4GHZ CPU with only 512M RAM.

"and isnt 9600 pro a little to slow to run bf2 and the sort?"

So if a P4 2.4GHz. So is only 512M RAM. That's my point. You slap in a really fast video card, it's going to be waiting for the CPU to feed it data; you're going to be caching to the hard drive way too often because you don't have enough RAM. If you had a 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB P4, ok, a 6600GT would be a good card for you, but considering a 6600GT is going to give you limited benefit and costly because you need a better power supply, why not just go with an inexpensive 9600 Pro and some more RAM, and when you want BF2 running top notch, upgrade your whole system?

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"even my Radeon X850 PE 256mb at max detail averages 50fps, BF2 is very demanding game"

Gotta point this out - doesn't that tell you your gfx card isn't the be all end all of performance?

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well its 2.4 athlon xp, not p4, if that makes any difference.

i've decided to buy a 9800pro instead, plus a stick of 512 ram. how's that sound?

thank you all for the replies.

Power consumption between 9800Pro and a 6600GT is about the same; if you needed a new power supply for the 6600GT, you're gonna need one for the 9800 pro. That's why I recommended the 9600 pro.

No, it won't make any difference if you have an Athlon or an Intel. 2.4GHz just isn't a lot of power for games like Battlefield 2. It's not horrible, but it's not great either.

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