Laughing-Man Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 I just purchased a PNY GeForce4 Ti4400 128Ram Card and it says on the box a 350W power supply. I know Dells have 200W, but I wanted to know if anyone installed this card and have had no problems. I have a Dell Dimension T700r. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Originally posted by jmole I just purchased a PNY GeForce4 Ti4400 128Ram Card and it says on the box a 350W power supply. I know Dells have 200W, but I wanted to know if anyone installed this card and have had no problems. I have a Dell Dimension T700r. um yeah and? if you're getting it work fine, just don't get that infinite loop bug. dell's do not have 200 watt supplies, you won't find a 200 in any puter, systems have at the least AFAIK 250 Watt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kusanagi Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Well, if you have a 200W psu, make sure you get at least a 400w just to be on the safe side, THEN install the gf4. The geforce is a power leech, and if you don't give enough power to it, get ready for instabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing-Man Posted August 4, 2002 Author Share Posted August 4, 2002 Yes I do have a 200W power supply and it says it in the manual too. The big problem is, is that you cannot upgrade Dell power supplies. I also think the amount of power that the GeForce4 uses is determined by the speed of your AGP port, such as if it is 2x or 4x. I have to find what mine is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivak Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Originally posted by Kusanagi Well, if you have a 200W psu, make sure you get at least a 400w just to be on the safe side, THEN install the gf4 Dells use proprietary PSU's so that wouldn't work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axis Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 I bought the same card and I decided that I already spent $200 on the card that I might as well spend 50 more and get the power supply. I never tested it with my 250w PS but I imagine it would just not boot, crash or just be really unreliable. You bought the card, I am sure you can afford the PS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivak Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Originally posted by axis You bought the card, I am sure you can afford the PS. Them I'm sure he can afford a new motherboard too. If you put a non-Dell powersupply in there it will fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Frett Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 I have that same card with a 300w ps and it does just fine dudes. no probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing-Man Posted August 5, 2002 Author Share Posted August 5, 2002 dah I said I had a 200 power supply. All Dells except for the newest ones have 200 power supplies and I wanted to know if anyone was running the PNY GeForce4 Ti4400 with their 200W power supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 to be honest, I haven't heard of any problem concerning power usage on the GF4's... maybe you should just test it out first? and it might help us a bit to list your specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing-Man Posted August 5, 2002 Author Share Posted August 5, 2002 Dell Dimension XPS T700r Processor: Pentium 3 700Mhz RAM: 512 PC 100 HD: 30 Gig Current Video Card: TNT2 Riva 32 Ram Sound: Turtle Beach Montego 2 OS: WindowsXP Home Power: Supposedly 200W AGP: 2x I don't want to open the box because I don't think Best Buy will let me return it if it does not work. So hopefully someone comes on here with the same computer specs or close to it and says that theirs works perfectly fine. It meets all of the damn requirements except of the damn power one :( . Damn someone on Neowin has to have a Dell XPS T700r with a GeForce4 Ti4400! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing-Man Posted August 5, 2002 Author Share Posted August 5, 2002 BTW does anything happen if you put in a piece of hardware that needs more power then your power supply offers? I mean will like anything burn out or somethng like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatm1ke Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 In my experience if you put something in and you don't have enough power to run the stuff, it will either run but crash because it runs out of power, or it just won't boot (POST), nothing comes on. Also I have a PNY Geforce 4 Ti4400 (not a dell though) and my 350watt PSU did not run it properly, although my PSU was a really cheap crap PSU and I have a rather beefy system. XP 2100+ Ga-7VrXP Rev 1.1 F4 512mb DDR 333 (1 stick) 80gb Ata 133 7200 Maxtor HDD 40gb Ata 100 7200 IBM HDD SB Live! Lite-On 24x10x40 CD-RW Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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