Video Card Advice for 240 Watt PSU

[Daedalus]

You should stick to what the card Mfr says it should be. i.e. someone said 450 watts. I agree with that for a GTX 750TI. I have used an EVGA 730 GT in an HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF with a 240 watt PS. It started up and looked great until the PC started having USB issues. And I think that card just required a 300 watt PS. Power messages every now and then about the USB 2.0 hub. Then I noticed audio would go in and out using a Blue Tooth headset that was connected to BT via a small USB device. Never had issues before until the new card. Droid phone connected fine.....for 10 minutes or so until the pc complained of power issues.The video was great, though. YMMV so be careful.

 

[ElFenix]

Ancient thread alert.

AT Moderator ElFenix

 

[sm625]

You know there is an RX460 that is available now:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137089

It even has an Anandtech article:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11133/msi-adds-lowprofile-amd-radeon-rx-460-graphics-cards-to-lineup

 

[Daedalus]

Recommended PSU: 400W for that RX460.

 

[Guru]

You might want to add another 4GB of ram there as well, will improve your gaming a lot. Even older games then to use more than 4GB of ram, heck the OS uses 1GB and more by itself, add an antivirus, few other background programs and you are at 1.5GB, so you effectively have only 2.5GB left for any game to run on.

As far as GPU the new GT 1030 from Nvidia is advertised at 30W, though its quite slow. A GTX 750ti would be faster, but its advertised at 60W.

From AMD you can get the RX 550 which consumes around 50W, bit faster than the GT 1030, consumes 20W more, probably on the same level of performances as the 750ti.