Question 1

What is the required power?

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Your power supply for this card should be a MINIMUM of 450W. Depending on what other peripherals you have in your computer case,  you may want to go higher or if you plan to go SLI with two of these cards. Having a higher power supply than you need is not a bad thing as it will not always be drawing maximum power; only what is required. But, having too little power will cause instability in your computer and cause crashing, lock-ups and a host of other avoidable problems. When you check your power supply, look at the Amps on the +12v rail and combine the two and you should have a minimum of 24 Amps. Having more will not hurt the card and can allow overclocking, if that's your goal, but having less will almost certainly cause avoidable problems with system stability.

Question 2

is this compatible with windows 8?

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I loaded the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation for a day and this video card ran just fine. I have dual monitors so I got to try out the new Windows 8 features that take advantage of the dual monitors such as the desktop wallpaper that covers both monitors, side-by-side view on both monitors and a few others. Everything ran great. I did have to load up the latest driver after installing Windows 8, but that is to be expected. Windows 8 runs really smooth and fast, but I'm just not ready to make the change to that interface for a desktop PC, but that is another story...

Question 3

How do I find out if this is compatible with my current PC? I need to update the video card only.

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There a few things you'll need to know first:

-Does your motherboard have a PCI Express 3.0 slot on it? You may have to look up some model numbers on the actual board if you don't have any paperwork on it to find out it's specs.

-Does your Power Supply have a 6 pin power plug available to plug into the video card?

-Do you have enough room for this video card? Some of these tend to be fairly large and will not fit in smaller cases (ex. they are too long and bump into the hard drive bay area).

-This one also requires a 450 Watt or more Power Supply.

Question 4

Hello all! I'm wanting to possibly purchase this product. My question is would this card work with an MSI motherboard? It has the correct PCI-E Expansion and I believe my power supply is enough. I'm just making sure the two entities are compatible.

Thanks, Tom

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Hello, I am unsure of the motherboard's information. Would you mind providing that information? This card works best running at 16x and at 3.0. A 450-watt power supply would be plenty to maintain equality among that, and other devices. I would strongly recommend this graphics card! I have two of them and running one is plenty. The amount of money you pay for this card is dirt cheap.

Question 5

is this card backwards capible to pcie1?

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All pci-E cards and slots are backwards compatible. There is not a large difference in pci-e 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0 until you start getting into high end cards (670 +) and multi-card SLI setups. This card should be able to be fully functional on a pci-e 1.0 x16 slot.

Question 6

Can this support 3, 1680X1050 monitors?

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it might im not otally 100% sure it will. it should tho it says it has nvidia surround which has 4 monitor support. just remember tho the more monitor u hook up to a card the more it works it and might get lag.

Question 7

I'll be getting rid of this PC next summer but I want to add a graphics card for now. My PC is a HP Pavilion P6-2100 and has a AAHD2-HY Holly Motherboard it says that it Supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards but im not sure what that means. Will this Video card fit?

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Not sure which you meant but here's my 2 cents:

Technical side:
Looking over the technical specifications of your system I would say yes it would be supported - mostly. I say mostly because according to HP's site, you have a PCI Express version 2.0 slot which is backwards compatible and will support this card. You also need to make sure your power supply is at least a 500 watt - according to HP the stock one is a 300 watt which won't work.

Physical side:
Physically I'm not sure this will fit your system. The memory slots may block part of the card and part of the sata ports on the motherboard. The site didn't list case dimensions so I'm basing it off of your motherboard.

Other thoughts:
This system looks like an AMD Based APU system. You may be better served using an AMD Based video card such as a Radeon HD 7770, but the above recommendations are still the same.

Hope that helps good luck!

Question 8

Can I get help for my GPU, I cannot locate my computer supplemental power connection to my computer?

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Hi Ana

I bought 3 of these video cards, one I have installed in a new computer build and have no issues. It works great. Without knowing what type computer you have it is difficult to make a suggestion, but I will do my best to help. Factory built computers do not often include options for upgrades.

Now to answer your question,  this video cards requires a 6 pin supplemental power connection.  The source for this  connector is the computer power supply.  If this is a manufactured computer, i.e. Brand Name and it came with an integrated video card ( part of the motherboard),  then the included power supply may not have such a connector.  If the power supply currently in the computer has such a connection it may be tucked away..  Check the power supply cables inside the computer to see if there any unused plugs.  It may also be possible to utilize the power connector adapter that was included with the video card, but it requires having access to a 4 pin Molex power plug from the power supply.  This would be true if the computer had a PATA Hard Drive  or PATA Optical drive ( This is only the case for an older computer ).

If none of the conditions I mentioned above are applicable, than the solution IS TO REPLACE THE POWER SUPPLY.  If this is a BRAND Name computer then you must also check to see that it has physical room for a standard size power supply, if it does then you need to up date and purchase a power supply that will also handle the power requirements of the system and the new video card.  If not, then I'm at a loss for suggesting a solution.  As I recall the minimum power supply required for this video card is 550 watts.  Any power supply that is rated at this power or higher will work, assuming that it will fit in the computer case.  This information on size is shown by Newegg for each of the supplies they sell.

I hope this helps.  Good luck.  Also go to Nvidia to get the latest driver for the video card if you get it installed.

Best Regards

Dan

Question 9

Hi, I'm NOT a gamer. I NEED to stream 1080i HD internet TV to my 60" Non-3d-HD. I can't get cable or Sat-tv.   I also want to be able 'render' my video tapes using ""Pinnacle Studio v12-14"" into DVDs & BD(BluRay) disks faster (not hours) than my PNY-GForce430 has done in the past. Is this card OVERKILL & OVER-PRICED for my 'dreamcard' ? My system consists of HP Intel quad-4 2.4Ghz; 550wtPS; 8GBRAM; 1.5TB, 2X1TB HDs; 3 fans; WinVista-64. Thank you for your time. PS-Should I wait to purchase a cheeper Less expensive card? Thanks dont811 (4:50pm EDT Thur 10-31-13)

Accepted Answer

Right now I don't think you will find a better deal than this. $150 for a video card is about as cheap as you want them to go unless you know that you want something special. Lots of cards will handle the video, I would suggest looking into upgrading the motherboard and processor instead. You'll get better performance if you get a new mobo and most new ones have great sound/ video already on them. The card is fine and at a good price, however the processor, mobo, or even the windows version might need upgrading

Question 10

Why are these gtx 650 ti's not in stock anywhere I try to find one? I need another one for SLI!

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I'm also running them in SLI mode. I'd just check back every once in a while to see if any come in. Does Newegg offer the ability to get notices when products come in?

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