How many watts does my power supply have to be to run a geforce 8800?

Question

How many watts minimum to run a geforce 8800?

Answer 1

depends also on how much else you have in your PC. do you have more than one hard drive or optical drive? extra fans? etc.

A 500W should be more than comfortable, you could get away with less I would imagine, but certainly NOT 300w or below.

Try this to calculate the amount needed:

http://www.journeysystems.com/?power_sup...

Answer 2

450W

Answer 3

Impossible to answer since you don't tell us what else you are running in the machine, what type of CPU you have or even if the GPU is passive or fan cooled

Answer 4

http://www.buy.com/prod/bfg-geforce8800-...

Answer 5

You should be looking for the MAXIMUM number, nor the minimum number. If while playing games your GeForce draws more than the minimum value (very likely), you don't want your power supply to blow.