I ordered the wrong PSU. What can I do?

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130061

thats the card I got

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182016

thats the PSU I got they both arrived in 3 days ty to newegg.
If u look at the GC it says minimum reccommended PSU of 400W and Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 18 Amps. Well on the box that I have now it says minimum recommended PSU of 450W and then below it says 500W for Sli and below that it says +12volt current rating of 22 amps. Now I got a PSU with a 12V rail 18amps cuz thats what newegg said I needed, but apparently they were wrong. The other possibility is that the 22amp rail applies to SLi mode which Im not doing, but I dont want to install the card and PSU until I know wtf is up with this card and newegg's lie. So im asking if ne1 knows what I can do or if it DOES mean SLi or if I shouldnt worry and I dont really need 22 amps.
 
I wouldn't put one 7950 on that PSU. It's on the avoid list for PSU's...
 
well i wouldnt buy a rosewill PSU anyways but if you havea problem with it contact newegg I am sure you can return the PSU with out paying restocking and get one that is better. This is a god send for you.... ROSEWILL???? get a FSP or OCZ, corsair, enermax, antec... something other than that thing..
but that JMO
 
Getting a buster-ass power supply is almost as bad as having a pirated anti-virus on your system. I'd send it back for a better one, asap.
 
Though I wouldn't have chosen a Rosewill myself, you'll probably be fine. Power supply requirements are nearly always overstated (yes, even with the over-hyped 8800 needs). Though, usually when people say that, they're assuming that you'll have a good name-brand PSU. And, well, the Rosewill. . . isn't.

And, not to be too pedantic, but try not to use the word "lie" so freely. Lying is intentionally and knowingly stating something that is untrue in an effort to intentionally mislead someone.

This was almost certainly just a mistake on Newegg's part. Probably on the part of some low-paid keyboard monkey. Or, perhaps they entered in the data properly, but were given improper data by their vendor or eVGA themselves.

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Edit: The more I think about it, the more I'd send the PSU back and get a good name brand one that isn't total "bargain basement."
 
Another Rosewill power supply victim.

Send it back and go to the power supplies forum. Check the PSU's to avoid list, and then the Recommended power supplies list.

P.S. Newegg didn't "lie". Your PSU has two 12V rails, and the sticker and specs on Newegg's site plainly shows that. But no, I wouldn't use a Rosewill Power Supply to run SLI or a single higher end graphics card. It's just asking to blow your system up.
 
im pretty sure you'll be ok, given the fact that this PSU isnt highly renowned around here... do the math on the breakdown of watts, (380/12 max) and you get a combined amperage of about 31 amps on both 12v rails.

each rail has its own capacity, as stated, but the combined output of the 12v lines combined comes to be about that 31 amps. so you are really meeting the minimum capacity for a single 7950GT by a longshot, and can even do SLI later.
 
m3ta1head said:
Why on god's green earth did you purchase a Rosewill power supply? You're just begging to blow something up.
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Two people said nearly the same exact thing at the same time. LOL I guess great minds think alike. OP get rid of that thing. LOL
 
Well, not for nothing, but you really should have gone to the graphics card vendors website or nvidia and looked it (power requirements) up for yourself.

Old addage: assume nothing,trust no one, always do it yourself.

It takes a second to verify what you want to know. Newegg has a zillion products, you cant expect them to have the straight scoop on every product.

Unfortunately, now you have to go through the hassle of sending that PSU back and gettting a better one..........get a better one......in order to use your new card.:eek:
 
Sounds like someone didn't do their homework...

I edited your thread title. No Shouting, please.
 
ty I think I'll get another PSU cuz I have plenty of $$ from christmas and Bday, so I can just send it back and they will give back the money then I can get a better one?
 
go to neweggs site, log in, go to your last order and click RMA..... read the instructions

you might want to run your next PSU by some people in the PSU section before you get another one :)
 
not a p'ni said:
ty I think I'll get another PSU cuz I have plenty of $$ from christmas and Bday, so I can just send it back and they will give back the money then I can get a better one?
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As another has stated, do the return via their online mechanism. But, after it's submitted, call them up and ask for the 15% restocking fee to be waived. Try not to use the word "lie". . . but instead mention that an error in the listing for the video card prompted you to buy the wrong PSU.

You'll get farther in life telling people nicely that they may have made a mistake than you will just calling people liars. :D
 
er sorry metal head.. wow you really recommend that sunbeam psu for 60? it has reviews like "smoke and fire" i actually liked that it was modular and 120mm but reviews show me there is drastic problems... for 70 i got a used silverstone strider 600 watt modular and for around 100 i got zalman heat pipe 600 watt modular

as far as super budget id get HIPRO or USED ones i mentioned
try to sell it on ebay if they want 15% extra restock people buy stuff for more than retail alot the time on ebay
 
I can't speak to the quality of Rosewill PSU's (although that exact model is recommended on Anandtech's current buyer's guide list) but I do agree with the poster who said that power supply wattage for video cards is highly overrated these days. What you have should be more than enough to power a gaming PC with a high-end graphics card, provided you aren't running some RAID system and SLI, etc. For the price and convenience factor alone I would probably just use that one. It comes with a warranty, right?
 
killster1 said:
er sorry metal head.. wow you really recommend that sunbeam psu for 60? it has reviews like "smoke and fire" i actually liked that it was modular and 120mm but reviews show me there is drastic problems... for 70 i got a used silverstone strider 600 watt modular and for around 100 i got zalman heat pipe 600 watt modular

as far as super budget id get HIPRO or USED ones i mentioned
try to sell it on ebay if they want 15% extra restock people buy stuff for more than retail alot the time on ebay
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I've used the NUUO in 2 client builds-not a single issue so far. One build is running X2 3800+, 2gbs DDR2, 2 hard drives, a single 7950gt, and some other stuff...great cheap power supply.

Since when are newegg reviews to be trusted? lmao. Half the people who submit reviews don't actually own the products :eek:

edit: wait a minute....that rosewill got a respectable score on jonny guru.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=48&page_num=1

huh?
 
FYI that power supply was rated at 25C. No way in hell it will even pump out 1/2 of that rating.
 
I dont buy these power ratings graphics card require. one of my 7900gs's requires 400w and i am running two on a 430w psu and no problems. and ive got alot of other stuff in there..but yeah rosewill is junk.
 
ya who cares if the cards really want 400w i use a 300w toaster oven psu & "not a single issue so far" hahahahah just because not single problem so far doesn't mean nothing to worry about. checked a few reviews sites and they all seem to like the sunbeam 60$ psu..one review even says it has pfc and newegg says it doesn't! my thought is reviews for Enermax liberty psu don't mention smoke fire or failure but that is what they end up doing after a few months of use.. how long have you had them in use so far?
 
killster1 said:
ya who cares if the cards really want 400w i use a 300w toaster oven psu & "not a single issue so far" hahahahah just because not single problem so far doesn't mean nothing to worry about. checked a few reviews sites and they all seem to like the sunbeam 60$ psu..one review even says it has pfc and newegg says it doesn't! my thought is reviews for Enermax liberty psu don't mention smoke fire or failure but that is what they end up doing after a few months of use.. how long have you had them in use so far?
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Probably close to 2 years now.

It's a solid power supply, I'm telling you.
 
haadij404 said:
I dont buy these power ratings graphics card require. one of my 7900gs's requires 400w and i am running two on a 430w psu and no problems. and ive got alot of other stuff in there..but yeah rosewill is junk.
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Bahahah, the card doesn't require 400w, hell not even half that. They are referring to the maximum wattage the psu can put out for the entire system. This is even a stretch, since a good 400w psu has more than enough 12v to handle that card and everything else in the system. OP, RMA that rosewill and as stated earlier that coolermaster 430w model jonny reviewed would do great for you.
 
wee96 said:
Bahahah, the card doesn't require 400w, hell not even half that. They are referring to the maximum wattage the psu can put out for the entire system. This is even a stretch, since a good 400w psu has more than enough 12v to handle that card and everything else in the system.
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O yeah I know its no problem running one of these cards. I am talking about TWO in SLI, and my little PSU is handling them fine. And I know they are referring to the system as a whole. :mad:
 
Guys...

I ran an Ultra Xconnect ORIGINAL (1st revision OEM model that was one of the worst PSUs in history) for 5 months with my Conroe system in sig ;).

My 12v rail dipped to 11.15v at some times. The system kept on plugging :p.

Was it bad... Yeah! Stressful on my stuff... Probably... but it powered it.
 
Arcygenical said:
Guys...

I ran an Ultra Xconnect ORIGINAL (1st revision OEM model that was one of the worst PSUs in history) for 5 months with my Conroe system in sig ;).

My 12v rail dipped to 11.15v at some times. The system kept on plugging :p.

Was it bad... Yeah! Stressful on my stuff... Probably... but it powered it.
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Amazing how people would risk so much hardware with a PSU known to be shitty and take hardware with it.
 
haadij404 said:
O yeah I know its no problem running one of these cards. I am talking about TWO in SLI, and my little PSU is handling them fine. And I know they are referring to the system as a whole. :mad:
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Then why did you say ONE of your cards requires 400w? Read what you said.
 
wee96 said:
Then why did you say ONE of your cards requires 400w? Read what you said.
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Because if only one of them requires 400w, than two must require more! I said I am running two of them after that first sentence. Two of them in sli require 500w and I am using a 430w PSU and its working fine. That was the whole point.
 
you trying to jack up your hardware?? since when do people that spend lots of money on hardware use a piece of junk power supplys? Also just because you think its "working fine" doesn't mean it really is and will forever but who knows
 
Newegg will accept it as a return, you'll just end up covering the shipping to send it back to cali, and most likely the egg won't charge a restocking fee, as long as you didn't use it. I returned a Mushkin 550w psu no problem (didn't use it).
 
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