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Power Supply Upgrade

#1 daic

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 03:03 AM

Just bought an ATI Radeon HD 4890 PCI-e 1g GDDR5 video card and need to upgrade the power supply since the current one is my HP Pavilion a1600n is only a 300w power supply.

The card needs a 500w or better power supply with two 75w 6pin PCI-e power connectors.

My question is if anyone can recommend a power supply to purchase to fit the needs of the new power card and fits in the Hp Pavilions a1600n case?
EDIT: I will be using just the one video card in the computer.

~daic

This post has been edited by boopme: 06 November 2009 - 10:08 AM
Reason for edit: Moved to System Building and Upgrading from XP~~boopme

Desktop: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005_SP 3_Hp Pavilion a1600n_AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00 GHz_3.50 GB Ram_ATI Radeon HD 4890 1gb GDDR5 Ram PCI-E

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#2 dpunisher

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 11:44 AM

From the cross reference I found, it is just a standard ATX size PSU. Fortunate.

My pick: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817139004

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#3 RainbowSix

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 12:59 PM

I would suggest something with a little more power, just in case you want to add anything else.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817371015

#4 daic

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 04:22 PM

Thanks for the replys, sorry i havent got back to the posts sooner.

I have done some looking around and decided to go with This Power Supply hoping i read it right and it has the connections needed for the new Video Card.
Just want to be able to get the computer set, video card/PSU last two adds for now. :thumbsup: