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I can't seem to find the power supply requirements??
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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It statesC in Idle = 184 Watt
PC 100% usage (wattage gaming Peak) = 363 Watt
A GeForce GTX 280 requires you to have a 550 Watt power supply unit at minimum if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total accumulated) at least 40 Amps available on the 12 volts rails.
You can get a simple 6 pin to 8 pin adapter. The extra two pins are just grounds.
Hi guys long time reader, first post
Iv had my gigabyte gtx280 for 3 weeks and killed 2 power supply's
1st one was my old Atrix 650w rated @ 37amp (dead in 1 week)
2nd was a cheap titan 850w rated @ 40amp (dead in less than 2 weeks)
both have dead mosfets and died with out warning, im guessing the card was drawing to much power from the psu and cooked the mosfets ????
So Choose your power supply carefully
As a long time reader you should know better than to use a '650 watt' PSU with only 37 amps on the 12v - that's only 444 watts, and the '850' with a 40 amp 12v rail is only 480 watts
Hopefully they didn't take anything else out with them!