Roger Ford Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Dell 531 has a 300W power supply. Not huge, but should be enough (I run three disks, 8GB RAM, two DVD drives and a fairly hungry graphics card off 400W). Beware that Dell power supplies are sometimes proprietary, in both size and connectors. A quick Google suggests that the 531 power supply IS standard ATX (despite what Dell will tell you) but I'd leave it alone unless you seem to be having problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myothercarsa2cv Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 As I have absolutely no idea what that is, I think I'll take your advice 😬 Thanks again, Roger Looking forward to uber(ish) gaming potential 😬 John _________________________ myothercarsa2cv Bugsy: '82 2cv6 😬 Talloulah '08 1.6K Classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irrotational Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Just to clarify - the 1gb on the gfx card is SOLELY for the Gfx card to use - it is completely different from the RAM on your motherboard. More is generally better, but it depends on the card architecture and chip structure as to how much difference the extra GFX memory makes. So don't worry that 3.5+1>4!! tomshardware is THE site for reviews, although even they probably struggle to keep up with all the GFX cards that come out these days... --- my mind is blank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irrotational Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 double post as its easier than editing tomshardware review - this is from Nov 2009 so a year old...which is quite a long time in PC world... here If you need more information than that then you're a chip designer! 😬 --- my mind is blank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myothercarsa2cv Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 Lovely - thanks! Seems a good card for the money, and ample for what I'll use it for John _________________________ myothercarsa2cv Bugsy: '82 2cv6 😬 Talloulah '08 1.6K Classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irrotational Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Roger knows his onions --- my mind is blank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myothercarsa2cv Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 All sorted 😬 Plays MoH a treat - excellent game John _________________________ myothercarsa2cv Bugsy: '82 2cv6 😬 Talloulah '08 1.6K Classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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