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Yeah, a 350w PS will try for a while but when it blew it may have taken part of your board with it.  You can't know if that Radeon is OK?  Get a way bigger PSU & get the Radeon checked out. ?  Good luck

 


@Warsun wrote:

Ok this is kind of a rant so try to understand my position.

 

OK. I had just went to Best Buy and got a XFX 6850 video card an installed it into my.

 

Gateway Dx4200-09

http://www.gateway.com/product_spec.php?product_recid=529668220

 

 

with a 350 watt power supply. It worked very well and did great graphics. Then the power blew out and sparks started flying! It burned out my Power supply and a circuit from my mother board.

 

I could easily replace the circuit but i was feeling lazy an just took it to Best Buy's Geek Squad to fix it. I payed for parts an labor an we went through the list of what needed to be done. Some jerk came up an said it is proably my mother board. an i repeatedly said it was my power supply an i need it replaced. He repeatedly said it was the motherboard.

 

After him constantly arguing with me i made it clear i am here to get it fixed.He says ok then takes the computer for 200 dollars because it was out of warranty. by 6 months. I told them to put in a more powerful power supply pointed it out. they agree. I cam back 6 days later an they fixed NOTHING! They did not install my power supply which i pointed out and then claimed it would additional charges.

I approached my computer an immediately smell fried circuits.  It is a VERY distinctive smell. Not solder from a soldering iron.The fried processor an other parts.I fix VCRs so i know what that smell is. He literally fried it. Then comes back an says. Yeah your Power supply is also fried. But now. So is your whole motherboard......

 

You know i was very very angry at this point. But all in all i ended up getting a whole new computer an Best Buy got a whole new Geek for what he did to my computer. That being said. I got a HP

HP Pavilion p6754y Desktop PC

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=5049531

 

 Here is the problem. I want to install my

 

 

XFX Radeon HD 6850

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/xfx_radeon_hd_6850_review

 

The problem here is. Last time i installed it on my other computer it fried it.What can i do to prevent this from happening again? Because one way or another its going in this new computer.

 




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Update 09-04-2011

Just wanted to let everyone know that 4 months later, the Cooler Master Silent-Pro-M 600W PSU is humming along silently & fine.  It's a little big, but no problems installing. 

Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600w

 

I'd like to point out that for all that I too love New Egg, I bought this puppy on Amazon.  When the 1st unit died they immediately shipped out a new one & sent a prepaid label for the doa PSU.  I spent nothing extra & had the new unit in 2 days.  Just sayin.

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@egkor wrote:

@AOG wrote:

Well that is interesting.

So in this case you ignored the latch that lock on the 5.5" which used to mount the PS correctly without movement

 

good for you, and good luck on the new upgrade


4 screws and the old PS came out.  The new one went in, 4 screws back in to hold it into place.  I didn't observe a latch, maybe I missed it.

 

I am actually surprised some of you are telling me I should have failed at this.  I guess since I didn't know that going in, I was able to get it done.  Smiley Happy

 

-Gary K

 


Check the following link, it is the insturction how to replace a power supply in your PC

check step 9 , there you can see the latch also see the video

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01684432

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@AOG wrote:

@egkor wrote:

@AOG wrote:

Well that is interesting.

So in this case you ignored the latch that lock on the 5.5" which used to mount the PS correctly without movement

 

good for you, and good luck on the new upgrade


4 screws and the old PS came out.  The new one went in, 4 screws back in to hold it into place.  I didn't observe a latch, maybe I missed it.

 

I am actually surprised some of you are telling me I should have failed at this.  I guess since I didn't know that going in, I was able to get it done.  Smiley Happy

 

-Gary K

 


Check the following link, it is the insturction how to replace a power supply in your PC

check step 9 , there you can see the latch also see the video

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01684432



I see!  Well, next time I open the unit up (maybe in the next day or two) I will check in there to see about the latch.

 

To replace the PS I had the unit laying on its side.  The old PS came out, the new one went in, everything lined up and was happy, the 4 screws went back on.  It all went pretty smooth.

 

BTW I had bought this PS (the Corsair GS700) because Best Buy had it on sale, and it exceeded my power needs.  I think I was just looking at power required by a new video card and power provided by the new PS, that (and sale price) drove my choice to this PS.

 

If I every do it again I might look for a "modular" PS as this does have a lot of extra cabling that I coiled into a cicle and nylon cable-tied it into place so as to stay in place and allow air flow.

 

-Gary K

 

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Newegg just dropped the price on the corsair hx 650 and with the rebate brings the price to $89.99. I had to splurge and get this psu and move the cx600 to my spare computer. I feel more confident running the hx650 as it's higher quality and has more power on the rails available.

 

I'm glad Big_Dave shared that his hx650 is compatible with the HP motherboard or I would have never known that this one would work.

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Got the Corsair HX650 installed and have been using it for a few days. Even though I knew Big_Dave had success with his hx650 in his HP desktop I was still worried about compatibility with my HP desktop because of the issues I had with the  Corsair 750 watt model and of course HP reps telling me that 600 watts was the limit one could use in the hp desktops.

 

So far so good this power supply is silent! had to check it to make sure that the fan was working because it is so quite but I do not hear it at all unless I put my ear realy close to it the Corsair CX600 I had before it was much more noisy as I could always hear the fan especialy under load.

 

One negative about the HX650 compared to the CX600 is it's size/weight the hx650 was a prety tight fit and takes up much more room in the desktop I also noticed that because of this that my graphics card temps have gone up about 6 degrees I am guessing because it takes up more room in the case as well has thicker wires than the cx600.

 

All in all both great units that will work with HP desktops and the HX650 being very high quality built and very quite. The CX600 is great for the price and will get the job done to. Unfortunatly the price I mentioned for the HX650 earlier is no longer available from newegg so it is now a bit more expensive. Good luck to everyone.

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Hi Tarpon31,

 

Thanks for getting back to us about your success with the Corsair HX650.  Yes the cables are a bit longer but depending the the PC case, you might be able to find room in an empty bay.  I am using the HX650 in my e9280t which mounts the PSU fan up so it draws air thru the top edge of the case.  It runs nice and cool.  I also have the HX650 in a Rosewill Future case with lots of vents and four fans.

 

 

HP ENVY 6055, HP Deskjet 1112
HP Envy 17", i7-8550u,16GB, 512GB NVMe, 4K screen, Windows 11 x64
Custom PC - Z690, i9-12900K, 32GB DDR5 5600, dual 512 GB NVMe, gen4 2 TB m.2 SSD, 4K screen, OC'd to 5 Ghz, NVIDIA 3080 10GB
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Hello Community,

 

I need help in trying to figure out what PSU is compatible with a Compaq Presario CQ5110y Desktop and any help is much appreciated.

 

This is the link to all the info regarding my Desktop.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01742890

 

What i am trying to aim for is a PSU with about 500 Watts+ 

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Hi Monaulga,

 

Your PC has the HP 300 watt (Merlot) power supply. A standard size ATX power supply should fit.

 

You should open up your PC and measure the physical dimensions of your power supply.  Here is a list of things to consider:

  1. Specifications
  2. Total wattage - important
  3. 12+ volt amperage rating - important
  4. Modular - not mandatory but I like the flexibility
  5. Warranty
  6. i7 and SLI ready
  7. Efficiency rating
  8. Cost
  9. Physical size -- standard ATX PSU is 5.5" by 5.9" by 3.4" give or take a few tenths
  10. A single 12+ volt rail is a better choice.

www.newegg.com has lots of PSUs choices.  Corsair, OCZ, Rosewill, Thermaltake.....

 

This Corsair CX500 is an excellent power supply.  After rebate it's $50.

HP ENVY 6055, HP Deskjet 1112
HP Envy 17", i7-8550u,16GB, 512GB NVMe, 4K screen, Windows 11 x64
Custom PC - Z690, i9-12900K, 32GB DDR5 5600, dual 512 GB NVMe, gen4 2 TB m.2 SSD, 4K screen, OC'd to 5 Ghz, NVIDIA 3080 10GB
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Oh that is perfect!

 

My PSU

5-15/16"(w) x 5 1/2"(L) x 3 3/8"(H)

 

The Corsair CX500

5.9"(W)  x 5.5"(L) x 3.4"(H)

 

Also wondering if you could help me with one more thing Big_Dave 😄

 

Would this graphics card be compatible with my system as well along with that new PSU?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625

 

Again thank you soo much for the help and i also gave you a star! 😄

 

 

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