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May 9th, 2013 20:00

PSU Question

I own an older Dell Dimension 8400. It has an Intel Extreme 3.4 GHz Processor. It has 4 Seagate Hard drives, two DVD burners. And the original video card. This computer is super reliable. I want to upgrade the video card.

My guess is that the PSU will have no problem with another upgrade.

Can anyone confirm this?

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    Kelbear1

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    Posted May 9th, 2013 21:00

    It depends on the video card you want to upgrade to.  However, if you still have one of the ATI X800 series video cards, they did not use too much power.  I think around 50 watts.  A lot of new cards today are very power efficient though that are much better than what you have now like the HD 7750 and it only uses 50 watts.  

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    Posted May 9th, 2013 21:00

    It's hard to say with an old power supply like that.

    I think this would fit with little or no case hacking, and it's $25 after a $15 mail-in rebate.

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    Posted May 10th, 2013 20:00

    I do sincerely thank you for your response and suggestion. I will look into that video card. Thanks again

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