I have a 500watts power supply what video should work with that also it has a core 2 quad q9550?

Question

hello i just build my custom pc , :

q9550 2.83 quad coer intel

4 gb ram dual channel

dvd burner lightscribe ( 2)

sata 500 seagate 32 mb

motherboard is a p45 5qpro

i build all for 559 what do you think is good price , i just need to find a pci express crossfire video card , i wouldn't want to upgrade the power supply to buy what video card do you think will work fine?

hd4850 ??? please help my budget is more on the video card that why i wouldnt want to upgrade also the power supply thanks

Answer 1

I just built almost exactly the same computer only with an Asus P5Q and a Q9400 with an Antec 550 Watt PSU, but I used a cheaper Radeon X1650 on it.  This computer also has a Seagate 500 Gb, and it has 4 gigs of DDR2 1066 Mhz RAM and everything is running cherry.

You might want to step up to a 600 or a 650 Watt if you are going to use a higher video card lik an nvidia 8800 GTX or one of the newer Radeon's like the 4850.

Answer 2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...

this one looks good