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New GPU in Antec Aria

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I'm the happy owner of a heavily modded Antec Aria - blow holes, sidefans, PSU-fan replacement and so on. It's based on a MSI Micro-ATX 939 motherboard, AMD 64-3200 (Clawhammer), 1 GB DDR-SDRAM, Liteon DVD-CD combo, a 160GB 7200 Maxtor disc, an external (USB2) Maxtor 250 GB disc and a Nvidia 6600GT card. The latter is the one I wish to replace, but I'm uncertain if I'm able to draw enough juice from the standard Antec 300W psu for this purpose? Seen people with a similar setup who uses a 7800GT card without problem. What are you guys advice - could I go down this road?

Cheers,
Svend
 
I run the rig in my sig on a silverstone 365W psu. First what card do you want to upgrade to
 
A 7900gs pulls less power and doesnt get as hot as a 7800gt if you're wanting something around that range.
 
Tbird87 said:
A 7900gs pulls less power and doesnt get as hot as a 7800gt if you're wanting something around that range.
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I think the 7900gs would kill his psu

to OP: more than likely you will have to buy a new psu to upgrade to anything in the 7800 or 7900 series or x1800 and x1900 series
 
Thank's guys for the swift replies. Well, since I'm unable to replace the proprietary Antec PSU with anything else - I'm curious to know how high I'm able to go with a GPU. I would very much like something like the 7900GTX, which in the article Tbird87 refers to is mentioned to have an economic power consumption and quite silent too as well. Still, from the article I see that it does use more power than the 6600GT.

Hmmm, what to do, what to do?

(sorry for this danes terrible english, by the way)
 
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