Graphics cards

forgotmyname

My last 550w PSU cost me £20 something.

Bare cases under £20.

Where do you shop Harrods?

I just took a load of old cases to the tip.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

forgotmyname wrote: »

My last 550w PSU cost me £20 something.

Bare cases under £20.

Where do you shop Harrods?

I just took a load of old cases to the tip.

like I said, its the internal width and length you have to watch and be mindfull of heat output from the gfx card.;)

you also have to be mindfull in a purchase for a PSU.

you can get a cheapo £20 550W that hasn't got a pci e 6 pin on it ive bought one for my wifes PC 450w and hasn't got a 6 pin or 8 pin on it for a gfx card connection and some of these card like mine requires 1 6pin 1 8pin connectors.;)

Cisco001

forgotmyname wrote: »

My last 550w PSU cost me £20 something.

Bare cases under £20.

Where do you shop Harrods?

I just took a load of old cases to the tip.

The only thing I would say good luck to you!
Many years ago when I first start building PC, I grab a cheap PSU. It end up with a 'pop' and bring my mobo and CPU with it...

Mista_C

The (older) HD5450 will run Battlefield 3 perfectly fine, it has a 75 watt power consumption, it's half-height, comes with DVI and HDMI output (with audio) and it's under £25...

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-amd-radeon-5450-hd-650mhz-pci-express-2-1-hdmi-v2-8MK2.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc%20product%20search&utm_content=Q200&utm_campaign=Components%20and%20Storage%20-%20Graphics,%20TV%20Tuners%20and%20I/O%20-%20Graphics&origin=pla

I dropped one in my AX3810 a couple of years ago and it's still running everything I throw at it. I also used the same card in both of my son's PCs. My eldest uses it for a lot of video and 3D work, AutoCAD as well as gaming while the youngest spends most of his time watching videos or playing Minecraft.

Nilrem

forgotmyname wrote: »

My last 550w PSU cost me £20 something.

Bare cases under £20.

Where do you shop Harrods?

I just took a load of old cases to the tip.

Unless that PSU was second hand I'm wincing at anyone using a £20 550 watt unit - at that price they are almost always missing most of the basic protection circuits that should be there, often with little in the way of proper voltage regulation (so you get the voltage varying more than it should), and usually are only capable of hitting their rated wattage for a fraction of a second* (I've seen tests where they've been unable to maintain 50-75% load before going pop).
I wouldn't trust a £20 PSU to run one of my spare systems that is only used for browsing, let alone one that will be used for gaming.

Also as has been mentioned before, modern video cards vary a lot in length - I've had to replace 3 cases recently (good quality, slightly larger than midi atx) because they were designed before videocards hit their current lengths.
IIRC the 7870 varies from about 9.5" inches (which is a really tight fit in a lot of ready built systems from the likes of Dell, Medion etc), to 11.5" which often won't fit in older midi ATX cases due to the position of hard drive bays.
IIRC it used to be most midi ATX cases were built to take something like a 10" card (basically the width of the ATX board), but that was for the sort of midi atx case you'd buy for a home build, mass production PC's often have smaller cases where drives actually overhang the motherboard in places (one of the reasons a lot of store bought PC's are smaller than home built, is that their cases sacrifice internal space as they know exactly what will be in the machine and thus no point in allowing for a third HDD, a longer card, or that front intake fan).

Slightly off topic, but I generally gave up on 20-50 pound (retail) cases a long time ago (unless they're ones that have been heavily discounted), as I tended to find them an absolute nightmare to work in, and often very poor quality (the cost of the shipping them to retailers alone is going to make up much of that £20-50) - there is a good reason my computer tool kit includes a packet of plasters


*And often the wattage is on the wrong "rails" for modern machines.

Cisco001

Nilrem wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but I generally gave up on 20-50 pound (retail) cases a long time ago (unless they're ones that have been heavily discounted), as I tended to find them an absolute nightmare to work in, and often very poor quality (the cost of the shipping them to retailers alone is going to make up much of that £20-50) - there is a good reason my computer tool kit includes a packet of plasters

I find £20 - 50 case are OK if it is not high end gaming. Just need to do some research to see which one have better cable management.

Some example are
Corsair 200R
NZXT Source 210
Zalman Z9
BitFenix Shinobi

sk240

TBH this has gotten a little off topic.

So the anwsers really are, get somone to swap the components into a new case with graphics card and suitable power supply.

or

Buy a new machine that comes ready to go, simple as that.....

Cisco001

sk240 wrote: »

TBH this has gotten a little off topic.

So the anwsers really are, get somone to swap the components into a new case with graphics card and suitable power supply.

or

Buy a new machine that comes ready to go, simple as that.....

swap the components into a new case with graphics card and suitable power supply.

Messa

Cisco001 wrote: »

I find £20 - 50 case are OK if it is not high end gaming. Just need to do some research to see which one have better cable management.

Some example are
Corsair 200R
NZXT Source 210
Zalman Z9
BitFenix Shinobi

I have a £30 case with a GTX780 O/C, 4xHDD's in 2xRAID0, 4 x DVDRWs an Antec water cooler and an 8350 8 core processor all run off an 850 PSU.
My point is the cost of the case really doesn't come into it, as long as the bits fit.