I don't think power supplies fry motherboards that often unless they're really ****ty ones. Stick with better known brands with an 80+ rating. Also maybe head to r/buildapc and ask some people thereHey ladies and gents,
I'm fixing up my PC and so I bought a new video card. Problem is, now I need to juice up my power supply to something along the lines of 600-800 watts. My only concern is accidentally nuking my motherboard with a new power supply. Is there a certain power supply that would prevent that from happening? Should I just get a new motherboard all together? (the computer is a HP Pavilion HPE 500F) Or am I just scaring myself?
Hey ladies and gents,
I'm fixing up my PC and so I bought a new video card. Problem is, now I need to juice up my power supply to something along the lines of 600-800 watts. My only concern is accidentally nuking my motherboard with a new power supply. Is there a certain power supply that would prevent that from happening? Should I just get a new motherboard all together? (the computer is a HP Pavilion HPE 500F) Or am I just scaring myself?
If I read the specs right you are running an AMD Processor, 8 GB Mem, and AMD Radeon HD 6450 1 GB on 300W power supply now.
What video card did you buy?
I bought a AMD Radeon HD 6770 which needs a 400 watt power supply.
I did the same thing last year and I doubled my wattage, my motherboard was fine and it was a good 4 years old at that point.
Actually. The base requirements are a 450 Watt Power Supply, and a single 6-pin PCI Express power connector. The reason I bring that up is that becomes a requirement for the better power supply. In this case just about any 500 Watt up to 700 Watt will be plenty.
You can get a well rated Thermaltake TR-500 TR2 ATX Power Supply (500 Watt) for less than $50 and will have all the components to handle not only the motherboard and peripherals requirements but also have plenty for the video card.
Or, you can always get a higher end power supply if you added additional drives and DVD bays. Like an equally high rated Thermaltake TR-600 TR2 ATX Power Supply (600 Watt) that I believe comes with a cable management set up... IE cables plug in at both the power supply side and the device side. (Meaning, only use the cables actually going somewhere and all others stay in the box. Less to bind up in some manner.) This one I think is less than $60 off NewEgg or TigerDirect.
And to answer your OP question, no the motherboard will not fry with these higher power supplies. Regulation is still handled by the motherboard and it will do what is necessary to ensure a constant clean pulse of power from the power supply no matter if you run a 400 Watt or up to 700 Watt.
Good advice! When I upgraded mine I didn't have enough cables for the new card and everything else.
I also couldn't figure out where a few spare parts went. The guy at the shop on the corner looked at me funny when I brought it in.:lol:
Hey ladies and gents,
I'm fixing up my PC and so I bought a new video card. Problem is, now I need to juice up my power supply to something along the lines of 600-800 watts. My only concern is accidentally nuking my motherboard with a new power supply. Is there a certain power supply that would prevent that from happening? Should I just get a new motherboard all together? (the computer is a HP Pavilion HPE 500F) Or am I just scaring myself?
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