Will PowerColor Radeon HD 5570 work on a 150W psu?

[srini0603]

My case has 150W power supply. I am planning to buy PowerColor AX5570 1GBD3-H Radeon HD 5570 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

the link to the card is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-342-_-Product

the product description says minimum power supply is 400W.

so will this work with my 150W supply?

 

[Stoneburner]

Really depends on the quality of the PSU and what else you have running there.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5570-review/6

the Card itself has a TDP of 42 or so. IF you have just low powered HTPC parts like an athlon x2 and maybe one HD, it should be fine.

 

[MangoX]

Maybe if you paired it with an Atom..

 

[Termie]

While that's a pretty low power card, I'm going to have to go with "maybe." See these charts: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2935/13

Comparing the 5570 to the lowest power card, the GT210, you can calculate that the 5570 uses at least 43 watts at load (not including it's idle power draw, which is probably another 5-10 watts). Unless you have an ultra-low power CPU and motherboard, you'll be pushing it, since you never want to max out a power supply at load (i.e. use all 150 watts). Don't look at the numbers in that review directly, though, because they're on a power-hungry i7 platform. What system will you be running it on?

My undervolted e8400 used to run about 125 watts at load with a 4670, which is comparable to the card you're looking at. I doubt you can get much lower than that unless you're on an Atom system. I'd call that too close for a 150w PSU unless you're never going to game with it. In that case you might consider a 5450, though.

 

[Vette73]

Yea if its a good quality 80%+ power supply with a decent amount on the 12V then yea.

But a cheap/no name with most on the 3.3/5v then no.

Specs and maker of your power supply is needed.

 

[Zap]

It could be done if the PSU is really capable of 150W (with most of it +12v) and you don't go crazy on the CPU. Oh yeah, and no super loading it with Prime/Furmark at the same time.

What PSU is it?

 

[srini0603]

Yea if its a good quality 80%+ power supply with a decent amount on the 12V then yea.

But a cheap/no name with most on the 3.3/5v then no.

Specs and maker of your power supply is needed.

the case is Athenatech A1089BW.150 and the link to the product is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811190112

the processor is i3 550 and the motherboard is Intel DH57JG

 

[Stoneburner]

You will need to find an SFF seasonic with 200 plus watts probably.

I say seasonic because those are the only itx PSU's i've seen with positive reviews.

That processor has a TDP of 73, card is 43. Though that is max draw for both, it doesn't look like a particularly beefy PSU.

It is theoretically possible that the PSU could handle it. It's also theoretically possible it'll fail.

 

[-Slacker-]

Wouldn't mess with a discrete gpu on a 150w psu...

 

[srini0603]

OK. If I put a 5450 instead would that work?

and what is good? DDR2 or DDR3 and 512MB or 1GB?

 

[RavenSEAL]

150w? LOL

 

[Vette73]

the case is Athenatech A1089BW.150 and the link to the product is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811190112

the processor is i3 550 and the motherboard is Intel DH57JG

Hmmm I lean toward no.
Their 400watt power supply has 40amps on the 5v line which says they are not going to be very heavy on the 12Volt line you need.

It might work but I doubt it. That and the i3 I thought used more power than the AMD Athlon X2's? In other words your power supply with the CPU and hard drive may be close to its max.

The 5450 fanless might work but again you are already near max on a cheap power supply.

 

[Termie]

OK. If I put a 5450 instead would that work?

and what is good? DDR2 or DDR3 and 512MB or 1GB?

Better option is DDR3. Memory size doesn't matter with this card, so go with the smaller 512MB. Here's the cheapeast DDR3 version: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131339. Only $5 more than the DDR2, so might be worth it.

All that being said, can you tell us why you're looking to upgrade from the integrated video on the H57 board? That should be pretty good for a small HTPC like the one you've built. It's obviously not going to be used for gaming.

A 5450 should work with your PSU - with your CPU, you probably won't go over 100 watts at load.

 

[Vette73]

^

Actually the i3 550 uses up to 73 watts byitself so add in another 7 for heatsink fan and board (wild guess). Add in hard drive and a DVD rom and you are at/near what a generic 150watt PS will run well.
The 5450 is at 25watts and the 5570 is 43watts. So the 5450 may work if he does not do heavy load work with the CPU. The 5570 I would not even chance.

 

[Termie]

OK. If I put a 5450 instead would that work?

and what is good? DDR2 or DDR3 and 512MB or 1GB?

^

Actually the i3 550 uses up to 73 watts byitself so add in another 7 for heatsink fan and board (wild guess). Add in hard drive and a DVD rom and you are at/near what a generic 150watt PS will run well.
The 5450 is at 25watts and the 5570 is 43watts. So the 5450 may work if he does not do heavy load work with the CPU. The 5570 I would not even chance.

73w is TDP, and I'm betting it will be a little less than that in actual use. I was going off of this article and assuming he wasn't really going to stress the CPU like Xbit did:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/cpu-benchmark-mainstream_10.html#sect1

All that being said, I still think the OP should stick with the onboard video from his H57.

 

[Vette73]

^

Yea I thought it may be for the HDMI port but that board seems to have one.

?

 

[happy medium]

NO

 

[tweakboy]

I say IMO, theres no way you can get it to work along side your other components. 150watt PSU ,, Can I ask what system you got ? CPU MOBO RAM etc,,,, gl

 

[ArchAngel777]

I am a little more optimistic on this. XBit Labs had the TDP of an i3 550 at 85 watts (that included a radeon 5870 at idle). Even if only 120 watts are on the +12v, that gives you 35 watts to play with on the video card, and since the idle power consumption of a dedicated card is already a part of that 85 watt figure, then I would say any card with a TDP of around 40-45 would probably work, since when idle it sucks probably around 10 watts.

Also that is assuming both the CPU and GPU are at full load at the same time. I highly doubt that they would be... If you ran Furmark and P95/Orthos, etc... at the same time, then yes, you *might* have a problem... But, honestly, I think it would work.

But, I don't think I would be willing to bet large dollars on it. I just personally feel that it would work and I'd try it in your position.

 

[at80eighty]

lol @ Zap

 

[srini0603]

I thought that adding an GPU will give better picture quality than the onboard video?

 

[RavenSEAL]

I thought that adding an GPU will give better picture quality than the onboard video?

Ehhh...no.

Only if you'll be playing 1080p/B-R will it have an impact. The majority of onboards, in fact, can handle 1080p very well, it really all falls into your CPU/RAM.

 

[srini0603]

Ehhh...no.

Only if you'll be playing 1080p/B-R will it have an impact. The majority of onboards, in fact, can handle 1080p very well, it really all falls into your CPU/RAM.

Yes I have a bluray drive on it and would like to play bluray discs. so adding the gpu would be good for better picture correct?

 

[RavenSEAL]

If you don't have any issues playing movies on it right now, i see no need to upgrade, if you're getting lower framerates and blurry images, then it's a whole different story.

 

[TemjinGold]

OP: The whole point of this round of onboard gfx is so folks like you who don't play games need not waste money/juice on a gfx card.