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Swatdog
02-24-06, 04:56 PM
Hey, a buddy of mine bought an EVGA 6800GS AGP at the same time I did, but little did he know that his dumb gateway p4 system only has a 160W PSU. The card requires atleast a 350. Now I have a 300W here that I don't use. Do you think that I can plug a 4-pin dongle from the 300w into the power input on the card and have it run okay?

It'll just need to last a couple days until he can get his 450W Modstream.
LeAd_Poisoning
02-24-06, 05:38 PM
no afraid not, it wont even boot
MightyJoe
02-24-06, 05:42 PM
You would need to jumper the 2nd power supply to run by using a paper clip or equivalent to connect the green wire to a black wire on the atx connector
chevro1et
02-24-06, 05:59 PM
you could try swapping out the PSUs and use the 300W one in your buddies's system... I have read on other forums that people have used this card with a 250W PSU in a shuttle case even....

Cheers.
blitzkrieg1110
02-25-06, 09:14 AM
you could try swapping out the PSUs and use the 300W one in your buddies's system... I have read on other forums that people have used this card with a 250W PSU in a shuttle case even....

Cheers.
you have to remember though that shuttle psus are EXCEPTIONAL quality. they can run a lot of very high end systems even though the wattage rating is only 250.
chevro1et
02-25-06, 02:20 PM
you have to remember though that shuttle psus are EXCEPTIONAL quality. they can run a lot of very high end systems even though the wattage rating is only 250.

That may be true... but the point I was trying to make is that it probably wouldn't hurt to give the 300W a try... who knows, it may run just fine. Never know for certain unless you give it a go.

Cheers.