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***EDIT 300W PSU enough for 9800PRO or 9700PRO

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Whipped

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Hello,

I'm building a computer for a friend. He is on a limited budget at about $500.00. He definitely wants an upgarde from his Dell, which is only rated at 1.2GHz. He likes to game, so I decided that the primary focus of his new system should be the video card.

I am going to purchase a case w/o a PSU and I would like to know if 300W would be sufficient for the 9800PRO. To be specific, I have narrowed it down to the PSU,Rosewill . The system is going to be a 32bit AMD(no oc'd) w/ 1-H.D., 1-CDRW and 2-fans(1 intake and 1 exhaust). I have heard good things about Rosewill and wanted to know if anyone could give me any advise.

Thanks! :beer:

Is there a big difference in performance between the 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO? As far as cost goes from my research, I can save about $25.00 by puchasing the 9700 PRO vs. the 9800 PRO. I am going slightly over budget (assuming the purchase of the 9800 PRO)for my friend's computer. My goal is not to exceed over $500.00 for the complete system.

I was just wondering if it is well worth it to go ahead and purchase the 9800 PRO or save the extra money and opt to get the 9700 PRO? Any thoughts?

BTW, my friend plays a lot of "sim building/strategy games" such as CIV3 and he occasionally plays 1st person shooters.

Thanks in advance!
 
It should work because I once used a 220 watt power supply to power:
2.8 ghz p4
1024 mb ddr400
2 harddrives
sound blaster live x-gamer
micro atx motherboard
radeon 9800 pro
 
it would be enough....u can even run the X800XTPE on 300W so the 9800Pro is perfectly fine with that PSU
 
at high resolution especially with aa and af at high turned on isn't there a massive diff b/w the 2 cards say 50-60%?

also,try to go for more than 300 watts .


go in for antec 400watts or higher

cpu-amd 2800 64
mb-asus k8n
ram-512mb ddr 400
graphic card-geforce 6800
psu-

or

cpu-amd 3000 winchester
mb-asus a8n-e
ram-2 X 512mb ddr 400
graphic card-6600gt
psu
 
Yes, 300W is enough. I guess the whole system power consumption is not higher than 200W. For the graphics card: Go for the 9800Pro, there is a difference worth 25$, or - if budget allows it - get a 6600GT AGP.
 
List for us the parts you've picked for him and the prices they are so we can suggest any changes for you if necessary. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: daveybrat
List for us the parts you've picked for him and the prices they are so we can suggest any changes for you if necessary. 🙂
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Duron 1.8(yea, I know)
Cooler Master heatsink
GIGABYTE GA-7VT600P-RZ Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT600
1 gig Cosair Value
80 gig 7200 Western Digital
Lian Li case
CDRW (manufacturer unknown at this time)
1 intake fan, 1 exhaust fan (generic brand most likely)
Rosewill PSU (maybe get a higher wattage with $10 off 20 deal @ Newegg)
ATI Radeon (9800 PRO or 9700 PRO or open to any other suggestions)
 
Originally posted by: Whipped
Originally posted by: daveybrat
List for us the parts you've picked for him and the prices they are so we can suggest any changes for you if necessary. 🙂
Click to expand...


Duron 1.8(yea, I know)
Cooler Master heatsink
GIGABYTE GA-7VT600P-RZ Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT600
1 gig Cosair Value
80 gig 7200 Western Digital
Lian Li case
CDRW (manufacturer unknown at this time)
1 intake fan, 1 exhaust fan (generic brand most likely)
Rosewill PSU (maybe get a higher wattage with $10 off 20 deal @ Newegg)
ATI Radeon (9800 PRO or 9700 PRO or open to any other suggestions)
Click to expand...



Is this all new? If it is you should be able to get decent XP for the for sale and trade forum for $30-35. Also no way I go with that Gigabyte board when you can get a MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR Socket A Nforce 2 Ultra for $3 more. I would also get a DVD burner which will burn dvds as well as cd's and play dvd's too.

All from newegg

MSI Board 58.50
NEC 3520A with software 57
Same memory you chose 85
9800 pro Sapphire Lite Box for 125
This comes too 326

Now I would get myself a nice case with Power supply and an XP processor and $175 is plenty to do some shopping for those items. I might even slip in a good sound card.

 
Someone in the hot deals forum was pointing out that the lower rosewill PSUs are made by a tier 4 manufacturer, and hence not so good. However, there was a rosewill that might be a rebadged X-Connect PSU and was on sale.

Here is the link:
Hot deals forum
 
You went against our recommendations and got a crappy generic PSU. Good luck... your going to need it, especially after your components start getting screwed up.

-Kevin
 
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