6600GT (agp) or 9800Pro

[Master Shake]

Putting an AMD 64 system together. Case is an Antec with Antec 350W smartpower psu (21A on 12v rail). Should be plenty for a 9800pro card, but I hear the 6600GTs are real power hogs. Would this PSU be enough?

 

[Silversierra]

I'm running the pci-e 6600gt on the smartpower 350. I also have 21a on 12v. It seems to work well. I don't know the power consumption difference between agp and pci-e.

 

[apoppin]

the 6600 series are not power hungry (compared to the 6800 series and especially the ultra) . . . . should be fine for a normal case

 

[zakee00]

yep, you will be fine. if you ever upgrade to a more powerfull GPU or processor, you might need to get a beefier PSU though
Nick

 

[Trente]

Originally posted by: Silversierra
I'm running the pci-e 6600gt on the smartpower 350. I also have 21a on 12v. It seems to work well. I don't know the power consumption difference between agp and pci-e.

Same here.

 

[Gamingphreek]

The 6600GT consumes much less power than even the 9800Pro. It is much faster as well though. I would definately take it over the 9800.

-Kevin

 

[Stack]

My wife is running a PNY 6800NU on an Antec 350W PSU with no problems. I seem to recall somewhere that the 6600GT uses a little more power than the 6800NU because it is clocked higher, but i'm not 100 percent positive on that.

 

[stockspeedsrule]

Originally posted by: Master Shake

Putting an AMD 64 system together. Case is an Antec with Antec 350W smartpower psu (21A on 12v rail). Should be plenty for a 9800pro card, but I hear the 6600GTs are real power hogs. Would this PSU be enough?

I'm running a 6600 gt with 1 GHZ ram (stock) on a cheap 300W PSU with just 14A on the 12v rail. Other than that, I have 4 256 MB modules, a SATA drive, an optical drive, an NIC and a Sound Blaster Audigy running on this sucker. The required ratings on most sites for Vid cards are "Play it safe" kinda things considering u might be running an overclocked prescott with a RAID array along with 2 optical drives etc.

So I'd say with 21A on the 12V rail and built by ANTEC, that PSU is ready for a 6800 gt considering u havent loaded it too much. BTW, my 6600 gt is from Inno 3D and the fan sounds like a hair dryer, but I still love it 😉 . U may wanna check out Anands round up on the 6600gt's.

Ciao!!

 

[caz67]

6600GT , much better solution in my opinion.

 

[nick1985]

you will be fine. i made my buddies computer with a 350 antec and a 6600GT. it works great!