Hello friends !!!
I need some suggestion from you. I have decided to upgrade my PC.
I want to upgrade my processor to Intel i7 with latest motherboard & a NVIDIA 9600 GT video card.
Do i need to upgrade my power supply??
I am now running with 450W power supply.
No, there is no need to upgrade your power supply at all or to change it with a new or any old power supply. It is no requirement of the system to change or upgrade the power supply if you want to upgrade other parts of your CPU such as Motherboard, processor, rams and hard drive and so on.
If your old power supply is running well then no need to change it.
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I will ask you to bought a new system and replace it with one you have now. It will be the better solution because each board have his on supply and it can cause problem. It may not cause problem in one year but after some years it can cause problem so you need to sell the one you have to the person you are purchasing from and take a new one as your needs. It will not only reduce your cost but will be more efficient way of dealing.
Although you can take your hard drive from that PC or even you can upgrade it also. I am giving you this solution because i got the same problems early a days. When i replace the power supply with other board after a while it got problems and my computer was going to shutdown automatically after some time. So i replace it again with a new one. So i will suffusion you to manage a new power supply also.
Melevia paul.
If your power supply is working fine then there’s no need for you to upgrade this component. If you want to replace the power supply, any power supply will do. The only reason why users replace or upgrade the power supply is to get a much higher wattage. The higher the wattage rating, the better.
The voltage rating printed on your old power supply is the same with all computer power supplies. Those are the standard voltage settings and requirements of a standard desktop computer. When you use a power supply that has a much higher wattage rating, it guarantees it can supply more power to your machine.
This is good and offers some additional headroom in case you want to add additional external devices. There is one myth about power supply which says that a power supply with a higher wattage rating necessarily consume more power. Unfortunately, this is not true. All power supplies are the same regardless of their wattage rating.
The power supply’s wattage rating indicates the maximum amount of power the unit can provide to your system and not the amount of power it consumes from the outlet.
