Dell E510 and HD 3850

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Drunken_King

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I have a Dell E510 with a Pentium D 820 Processor and 1 gig of memory. My question is will the E510 power supply be able to handle the HD3850 and if it can how bout the 3870?
 
well it might help if you told us details on what power supply you actually have along with ALL your other pc specs. if it comes with that 305watt psu then you would be pushing your luck with even the 3850. also theres NO point in going with a high end video hard with only one gig of system memory. that cpu will seriously hamper your gaming experience too.
 
Hmm, I don't know exactly what kinda PSU it has but I assume all E510 have the same PSU unless you order a different one. But your saying that even the 3850 is pushing it if I get the HD 3850?
 
Drunken_King said:
Hmm, I don't know exactly what kinda PSU it has but I assume all E510 have the same PSU unless you order a different one. But your saying that even the 3850 is pushing it if I get the HD 3850?
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well you need to look and see. nobody can give you advice if we/you dont even know what psu you have. I do believe most of them came with the 305watt psu. your comp therefore your psu appears to be fairly old and using that psu probably would be risky with a HD 3850.
 
The PSU has a model number of CX305N-00. And it has the Dell Logo. It says that the Comined output power of the 5V and 3.3V is not to exceed 150W and the +12VA and the +12VB is not to exceed 264W.
 
So I would not even be able to run the 3850 on this PSU. Is there a chance that it might work?
 
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