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Andrew666drew
By Andrew666drew
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get a 500w and you will be fine. and a good 500w not some cheapo 500w.

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It says no lower then a 600W PSU on the box so most likely up too 120-200watts full load??

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That card can physically take nothing more than 150w as that's all the connectors allow. 

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Its around a 120W-130W card... as Windspeed said it has a theoretical cap of 150W given the power connectors it has.  A 550W power supply can power any reasonable system with a single graphics card with room to spare.

 

They overstate the wattage a bit on the box just to be on the safe side since it depends on the rest of your system; plus, a lot of cheap "600W" power supplies are really 400W units in disguise ;)

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A good 500w should do you perfectly with room to spare :)

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