Guys, need some solid advice about the new single slot 5770. Ive bought me a second hand shuttle from ebay (Skt 775) it it will have an E5200 stock, 2gig of ram and 1 hard drive (160g sata) The power supply is a 250watt. Now i know these things are good but are they single slot 5770 good??? Also i dont think its PCI 2.0 compliant. Any advice would be well appriciated.
I have serious doubts that your PSU will be stable enough to run that setup, especially since their output decays with age.
Shuttle PSUs are generally of decent quality, but how much does the particular unit oputput into 12 V rail(s)? If it DOES output 250 W to 12 V you have no problems. The E5200 has TDP of 65 W and HD5770 some 110 W. Other components draw some negliable currents so real life total is under 200 W And just in case the specified wattages aren't enough for some, I've personally tested the HD5770 (combined with a heavily overclocked i7 870) to draw 217 W from the grid in Furmark load.
Breif look at the PSU again says it runs 16Amps on the 12v ... Doesnt sound much at all tbh does it. Still, would i be getting better power efficiency with that card or somthing like a 9600/8800gt? I play Warcraft and racing sims, nothing hardcore.
There could be another option...what model Shuttle is it? You can get larger Shuttle PSU's for not too much money... http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=...ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQrQQwAA&output=nojs I replaced my 200w PSU with a 300w model in an old s478 Shuttle I have when I thought it was underpowered for a 7600GT AGP card (it turned out to be the card that was at fault).
Yeah never you mind the specified and measured consumptions, just use the Stetson&Harrison method of thinking it's not nearly enough It's kinda frustrating you know. Ofcourse he would be "safer" off with a quality 300-400 W unit, but still all things considered the old one should COPE as well. This is a bit off topic already, but while you're at it, please tell me how large a PSU does a Q9450 + HD5850 + two HDDs + 2*2 GB memory require?
A 5770 uses 9A all on its own and after you add the cpu, hard drives case fans ect you are going to be hitting the max of that psu. Sooner or later your going to have stability issues. It's not worth the risk in my opinion.
