Sparkle 350 watt 16amps@12v athlon xp 2500+ 1 dvd-r drive 4 fans: 3 in the case, one on the cpu 1 40 gig hd +6600gt So, in short:Will my cpu be stable, and should i expect any problems?
should be stable, might get unstable on high intensive tasks AKA full load or 75% load, then like ninja said if it has problems you can change it, you should be fine though
You're probably bottlenecked by your CPU, so won't get the full performance available out of your card.
if you have a good case with good cooling and heatsink you should be able to increase your CPU speed to 200mhz FSB. That will get you to 3200+ speeds. That's if you've got pc-3200 ram
The 6600GT only wants about a decent 300wt psu, it's not nearly as demanding as the 6800Ultra obviously. You should be fine as that's a respectable brand. 16amps is fine, more is naturally better but it's more than enough. Ninja has a good tip, I'd say go for it
still they recommend a 500W for 2 ultras and a FX55, so 300 for a single 6600GT is enough by far IMO actually. how much for FX-57 and two 7800GTXs 600W? haha
Two 7800GTX's require 500 actually, they toned down the consumption needs:good:, 600wts couldn't hurt though.
true haha, wow thats a good thing or else we'd have 1kW psus and vid cards the size of 5 PCI slots soon
Just installed it this morning. Im pretty relieved that there weren't any power problems or artifacting(the card is refurbished but i don't think its been used). Oc'ed it to 579/1060 and overclocked my 2500+ to a 3000+. All of the games i tested on played quite smoothly at max settings+af/aa but hl2 performed horridly on high settings without af/aa. Load times increased and fps was around 15 average.
Yeah HL2 really doesn't like nVidia cards, they're are patches and new drivers out of course but the fact is it was optimized for ATI's cards and that's something only an ATI card can truely fix. Either that or a beefier GeForce.
Oh, also if you don't have a gig of ram that seriously hurts your HL2 performance on higher settings, I found that out myself.
