HD5670 on 370 watt power supply?

[azndragon328]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if i can run this 5670 card on my enermax 370 watt psu?

 

Please let me know tanks

 

Video card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150467

 

PSU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103444

[danieljury3]

Wow. I've never even seen a power supply with such a low wattage ratting. I've only heard about them in books.

To answer your question though, maybe depending on the power consumption of the rest of the computer but I suspect that even if it can supply the card, your power supply would be running uncomfortably close to full load a lot of the time so you should probably get a new power supply if you plan to upgrade anything.

[Locutus]

Definitely buy a new PSU if you plan on getting a new GPU.

 

I wouldn't suggest that PSU to anyone, even if I hated them.

[paulktreg]

It's probably about time you bought a new power supply but should you want to power your system from the Enermax you should be fine. The HD5670 power consumption is very low, TDP of 61W, and doesn't need an auxillary PCI-E connector because the PCI-E slot provides all the power it needs. You're probably looking at 200~225W at full tilt?

 

The only problem I see is the 20 pin motherboard connector. The 24 pin connector was partly introduced to cater for the extra demand from the PCI-E graphics card slot so the card may not get all the power it needs/overload the 20 pin motherboard connector. New power supply is definately the better option.

[medbor]

Safe option: new psu

 

What i would do: monitor the voltages and test it, ive done similar things with an 250W psu (from the nineties), but this is of course highly unrecommended