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Ok so I came across a old AMD 5550 from an old PC. Right now my other PC can't play anything well. It has a OEM dell 300 watt PSU. Will it work?

 

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Athlon x4 645

6gb or DDR3 RAM

1 HDD

2 Fans

CPU-- AMD FX-8320 (Stock), Motherboard-- ASUS M5A99FX PRO R 2.0, RAM-- Team 8gb 1600Mhz, GPU-- Sapphire 7870 GHz with OC Edition, Case-- NZXT Tempest 210, PSU-- Corsair CX600m, HDD, 1tb Seagate & 2tb WD External, Monitor-- Dell S2240M IPS Display, Keyboard/Mouse-- Some Logitech keyboard and some Dell mouse, Speakers-- Logitech Z533

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Ok so I came across a old AMD 5550 from an old PC. Right now my other PC can't play anything well. It has a OEM dell 300 watt PSU. Will it work?

 

The other specs are

Athlon x4 645

6gb or DDR3 RAM

1 HDD

2 Fans

The 5550 is better than what you already had?  I'm assuming what you already had was not the 7870 in your signature?

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Yessir

Hope I could help!

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The 5550 is better than what you already had?  I'm assuming what you already had was not the 7870 in your signature?

I have 2 different systems. One gaming for me, and one for my family and my brother. The gpu i have know is an integrated HD 4200. can play tf2 on low

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Yes as long as that PSU doesn't have a HORRIBLE efficiency (it didn't explode yet so I say yes)

What do you mean by terrible efficiency. 

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I have 2 different systems. One gaming for me, and one for my family and my brother. The gpu i have know is an integrated HD 4200. can play tf2 on low

In that case, just about any dedicated GPU is better than the onboard.

Desktop: Intel Core i7-6700K, ASUS Z170-A, ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB Samsund 840 Pro, Seasonic X series 650W PSU, Fractal Design Define R4, 2x5TB HDD

Hypervisor 1: Intel Xeon E5-2630L, ASRock EPC612D8, 16GB DDR4 ECC RAM, Intel RT3WB080 8-port RAID controller plus expansion card, Norco RPC-4020 case, 20x2TB WD Red HDD

Other spare hypervisors: Dell Poweredge 2950, HP Proliant DL380 G5

Laptops: ThinkPads, lots of ThinkPads

 

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like needs 150w but draws 300w out of the socket

ah

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Ok well i'm going to try this. what is the worst thing that could happen?

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Ok well i'm going to try this. what is the worst thing that could happen?

Your computer could crash or your power supply would fail and it could possibly bring some of your components with it too.

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Ok well i'm going to try this. what is the worst thing that could happen?

Might catch on fire, explode, melt, warp the space/time field into creating a black hole where the power supply used to be dooming us all because you're a jackass like that. :)

 

Might just turn off.

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