Thermaltake 480w enough for Sapphire 4870 512mb Video Card

wiskyjoe · May 29, 2009

Any ideas if a thermaltake 480w pws would be enough to run a sapphire 4870 512mb gddr5 video card. and what you guys think would be better.. 4870 512mb or a gts250 1gb. Thank you in advance

Specs
MOBO: M2A-VM
Processor: Amd Athlon 5200
1-Harddrive: 250gb 7200rpm
Video Card: Ati 2600 256mb
Ram: 3gb ddr2 666
1-Dvd drive

benbaked · May 29, 2009

With your current setup I think it will power a 512mb 4870 fine. IIRC the GTS250 is a re-branded G92 8800GTS. The 4870 should be a faster card, although the 512mb of RAM may limit it at higher resolutions compared to the GTS250.

wiskyjoe · May 31, 2009

ya i was thinking of spending the extra 20 or 30$ and going with the 1gb.. as i am running my computer on my 32" lcd tv.. that being said though i dont really use to high of a resolution... maybe 1360x768.... tv is only 720p too. But i am already spending too much getting the 512mb. Think the 512 would hold me back that much?

CharlieCS · May 31, 2009

It will not hold you back with that res , 512 is more then enough , would be a waste to get 1 gig , but i still dont like that power supply .

wiskyjoe · May 31, 2009

why whats wrong with it?... right now i have just a stock 350w.. and i have that 480w sitting here. dont really want to spend anymore money if i dont need to.

ou_phidelt · May 31, 2009

I'm not crazy about the PSU but its probably better than what you have if its a generic that came with your case.

The 4870 will be the better card. That resolution doesn't need more than 512MB, even if it did the 250 doesn't have the horsepower to take advantage of that much memory anyways.

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