Watt Psu
Watt Psu

Is a 230 Watt PSU enough for a Radeon HD 4850 video card?
My monitor uses 42 Watts (19in Asus) and my processor uses 65 Watts at maximum (Intel Pentium E2200).
I've had the PSU for less than a year, so it shouldn't have detereorated noticeably.
Not even close. Honestly, I wouldn't even put ANY PCIexpress video card onto a computer with a PSU rated that low.
The only time I would consider using a PSU rated that low is with a motherboard with built-in audio/video, a single-core CPU and a single hard drive and one optical drive. That's it.
Nobody should be using anything rated lower than 550W if they intend on gaming nowadays. Minimum wattage for a simple home computer would be 450W.
Straight from ATI's site:
ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 Graphics System Requirements
* PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
* 450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
* Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
* Minimum 1GB of system memory
* Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
* DVD playback requires DVD drive
* Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
* For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required
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