Video Card And Power Supply

[barrp]

Thanks guys, I ended up returning the card. I then went to 3 stores before I found a card that said it only required a 250 W power supply. It's a GeForce 6200 OC and it was the only one they had. I Installed it, loaded the drivers and enabled the second monitor and was up and running.

Every card I looked at had a minimum for the power supply. They averaged 350 W to 400 W minimum. It may not have been my problem but it's something to keep in mind next time you buy a new card.

Thanks again

[ddouglass]

Glad you fixed it. I am not sure why they now putting this "minimum" for power supply since they have no idea what else is in your computer and those cards don't require that much power.
I will say that if you upgrade to Hoster 4.06 I would recommend you upgrade your power supply to the 350 or 400W because the newer version of Hoster does make the computer pull more power and a 250W supply may be over taxed with its increased requirements.

[barrp]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Glad you fixed it. I am not sure why they now putting this "minimum" for power supply since they have no idea what else is in your computer and those cards don't require that much power.

As a guy I use to work with would say: "I can't answer that". If I had to guess I would say that they are estimating what you are using now or the minimums are meant for hard core gamers.

Thanks for the heads up on the update, I considered it this morning and decided to wait since I had read that some were having video problem with this update and I already had video problems to deal with.

[ddouglass]

Most of the ones having video problems are using laptops with on-board viseo that is using shared memory. Other than that it is only those whose system is under-powered (processor speed, memory, and video memory) or not set-up right.
Anyway glad you have gotten it fixed.