EDIT: I have no clue how that happened, sorry for the duplicate. Could a mod please delete this one?
OK, so I gave my old PC to my friend after I built the one I'm using now. It was just a cheap acer aspire T180, with the regular 250 watt power supply. Anyways, He wants me to put a cheap graphics card in it (geforce 210 512mb, or Geforce 8400 GS 256mb), but I'm not sure it will work. According to the eXtreme Power Supply Calculator, it needs 248 watts for the 210, or 276 watts for the 8400 gs (those are the reccommended ones, not the minimum ones). However, according to newegg, the graphics cards need at least 300 watts to work.
So, My question is, will they work? and if they will which graphics card should we get? And how much increase would he see compared the integrated nVidia MCP61?
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireT180/AspireT180sp2.shtml
OK, so I gave my old PC to my friend after I built the one I'm using now. It was just a cheap acer aspire T180, with the regular 250 watt power supply. Anyways, He wants me to put a cheap graphics card in it (geforce 210 512mb, or Geforce 8400 GS 256mb), but I'm not sure it will work. According to the eXtreme Power Supply Calculator, it needs 248 watts for the 210, or 276 watts for the 8400 gs (those are the reccommended ones, not the minimum ones). However, according to newegg, the graphics cards need at least 300 watts to work.
So, My question is, will they work? and if they will which graphics card should we get? And how much increase would he see compared the integrated nVidia MCP61?
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireT180/AspireT180sp2.shtml
