8800GTX power supply?

[DABhand]

Unfortunately not all high end PSU's have the necessary ampage on the necessary rails to supply high end GPU's.

And its not easy to know for people if they do or not, its a bad time at the moment for that since there is no general design for GPU's, since ATI and Nvidia cards do things differently.

They should get together and actually come up with a permanent solution to the problem so it doesnt cost the consumer a lot of money on trial and error.

[simon11]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Unfortunately not all high end PSU's have the necessary ampage on the necessary rails to supply high end GPU's.

And its not easy to know for people if they do or not, its a bad time at the moment for that since there is no general design for GPU's, since ATI and Nvidia cards do things differently.

They should get together and actually come up with a permanent solution to the problem so it doesnt cost the consumer a lot of money on trial and error.

Thanks for this info. You certainly make a good point. The firm that supplied mine probably were not even aware that it would not do the job.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by simon11

Thanks for this info. You certainly make a good point. The firm that supplied mine probably were not even aware that it would not do the job.

Motherboards come into it also.

Someone came to my shop, wanted a nice 600w+ silent PSU (i.e. no fan but heatsinked). Gave him one that had 45amp rail. He came back with the PC complaining I sold him shoddy goods.

He had an Asus K8V-SE Deluxe (a 754 socket AMD board), would run okish on XP with his ATI card, but when he tried to install Vista it would bluescreen on install.

So for a laugh I changed the motherboard to a gigabyte board I had lying around, Vista installed no problems at all.

The Asus board was fine it wasnt faulty etc. It was like it sucked the life out of the PSU.

So again another reason why ATI and Nvidia need to get together to form a solution on an exceptable state of things for GPU's.