Q about asus 9800gt ultimate and PSU

[mentalcrisis00]

Hello all

I have a quick Q about the Asus 9800GT Ultimate card, I've been looking far and wide in the 8800gt and 9800gt line up to find a card for $150 or below that would be able to run Far Cry 2 on at least medium. I have come across this asus card that impressed me seeming it's pretty much an 8800/9800gt board clocked to nearly GTX speeds for about $30-40 cheaper and only one PCI X plug is needed.

My question is that I have a rather old 939 system running an Enermax Noisetaker 485W power supply. Would this supply be able to run this card? I know the run of the mill 9800GT's require at least a 400-450W. I figured this Asus might draw more power, and Asus doesn't seem to list to min power requirement.

I've seen people saying they have 700 and 1000 watters when running this card which is the same kind of fluff I heard 3 years ago when I bought my system. My little Enermax has done well for me over the years and I'd hate to have to spend extra money upgrading if it's not necessary. I'm also not interested in going SLI anytime soon even though I have a SLI board.

Rest of my system is:

AMD X2 4400 skt 939
Asus A8n Deluxe
2GB ddr 333 ram
Audigy ZS 2
1x 250GB HDD 1x 500GB HDD

 

[happy medium]

Yes it will run it.

 

[walk2k]

I had your exact same system with a 430w PSU. (Moved the 8800gt to a new system last month, the 4400+ now has it's old 7800GT back and is doing HTPC duty..)

Current draw from the socket did not exceed 160 watts (under load, idle more like 100w).

Do you need a 700 watt PSU? A 1 kilowatt??? Hells of no.

As long as it has enough juice on the 12v rail, or preferably two 12v rails with a 6-pin PCI-E connector, you'll be fine.

 

[kpo6969]

Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
Hello all

I have a quick Q about the Asus 9800GT Ultimate card, I've been looking far and wide in the 8800gt and 9800gt line up to find a card for $150 or below that would be able to run Far Cry 2 on at least medium. I have come across this asus card that impressed me seeming it's pretty much an 8800/9800gt board clocked to nearly GTX speeds for about $30-40 cheaper and only one PCI X plug is needed.

My question is that I have a rather old 939 system running an Enermax Noisetaker 485W power supply. Would this supply be able to run this card? I know the run of the mill 9800GT's require at least a 400-450W. I figured this Asus might draw more power, and Asus doesn't seem to list to min power requirement.

I've seen people saying they have 700 and 1000 watters when running this card which is the same kind of fluff I heard 3 years ago when I bought my system. My little Enermax has done well for me over the years and I'd hate to have to spend extra money upgrading if it's not necessary. I'm also not interested in going SLI anytime soon even though I have a SLI board.

Rest of my system is:

AMD X2 4400 skt 939
Asus A8n Deluxe
2GB ddr 333 ram
Audigy ZS 2
1x 250GB HDD 1x 500GB HDD

The card is for all intensive purposes a re-badged 8800GTS 512 with 128SP.
Very nice card.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

thanks for the feedback guys, i ended up going with the normal xfx 9800gt 512mb because of the size factor. My case is roomy but the asus a8n deluxe board of mine has the chipset cooler right under the primary pci X slot so a full dual slot cooler isn't really an option unless i get another board. Not to mention I found out that tigerdirect is still offering there's for $109.99 + free Call of Duty 4 =) something I've been wanting to play for awhile.

Anyway thanks for the great opinions and i'll keep them in mind for the future.

 

[FalseChristian]

The 8800GTS 512MB does have 128 SP already.