I would go for that PSU, even though it is a less power hungry 80nm card.

No I think you will need to get that PSU. 280W is a no-go for the X1550.

I spoke to Geeksquad and they said it is possible it could burn out my motherboard with a bigger power supply. I have an intel socket 478 motherboard with a celeron D from an e-machines T-3882 computer, Intel® 865GV chipset, it was released in the beginning of 2005. If it will work, i also saw a 500 watt antec power supply on Newegg.com for the same price, should i get the 430 watt of 500 watt? will 500 watts just be a waste of energy if it will work?

500W would be better, since 420W is the recommended amount for the X1550. And I don't think your motherboard would burn out with a powerful PSU. Remember the components suck power from the PSU, not the other way around.

Thanks! I'll be sure to get the 500w

I got all of the stuff today, halo works awesome! Everything is set to high with all features turned and antialiasing x8 on at 1024x768 and can play almost 90fps! with my intel extreme graphics 2, i set everything to low and ant aliasing off at 640x480 and could only get 30fps. That difference is uge. My Emachines is now a gaming rig. Thank God there are some good pci cards. Thanks for all your help. :bounce:

I'm glad I could help you out. Enjoy your new rig!

nice nice this makes me want to buy that card too
pleasedo some benchmarks for us
3dmark 2001 3d mark 2003 3d mark 2005 aquamark
please please

I dont think he needed the PSU, I ran a X1300 on my 300W lol, and the X1550 uses LESS power, but better safe than sorry. Wow, I think that your emachines is better than my Rig, but my video card is **** lol, im looking for one, and a X1900GT at 130$ no rebate at newegg is so tempting, thats what i payed foer my former 7600gt

The 7600GT is still a stellar performer IMO and if you keep the resolution at 1280x1024 or 1024x768, it plays most games on high settings pretty easily.

i dont really now how to do a 3Dmark test, but i found a page on the interent with some scores. http://aphnetworks.com/reviews/power...b_64bit_ddr2/8 it does seem to run quite a bit slower than the 7600 but it is fast in halo! i dont have any other demanding games for pc. but am going to buy far cry and doom 3. Do you think that those will be ok? also will crysis work with my card?

Aren't those scores for the X16 verson of the X1550?

that are scores for the pci express version
well i think it will run doom 3 like the x1300..
well if u want to know how to run 3dmark, its simple
first you have to download the software,
3d mark 2001 http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark2001/
3d mark 2003 http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark03/
and so on
then install it and once you run the aplication, you will be able to start the benchmark just clicking on run test or something like that, it will show some game scenes and it will count the fps and finally it will give u a score.
We have some past reviews about the x1300, aprox 7400 points on 3dmark2001, and 1500 on 3dmark 2003 i think, i cant remember well.
It will be interesting if u can tell us how this x1550 perform.
Good luck

Doom 3 and Far Cry should run fine with the X1550. No idea about Crysis, you'll have to wait until it comes out to find out.

I ran 3D MArk 2005. here are the results for the x1550. GET READY!!
2973

I think you hit one to many numbers when you posted your score. I honestly think there is no way that you could get 2973 with a pci x1550 and a celeron d. 973 would be more like it. An athlon fx-62 system with 2gb ram and a pci-e x1550 got slightly over 3000 pts in 3dmark05, and that is much faster system. Pics or ban! lol

Hi everyone, I have a little problem.
I buy the ati radeon 9250 pci yesterday and I want to install myself but... I'm not able to open the box of my computer. please! if someone know how, tell me!
My computer is a dell dimension 3000.

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1076111

run 3d mark 01 and 03 please
and also u can copy ur results (picture) by pressing imp pant button on your key board and then paste it

Hi, I have finally installed my radeon 9250 256 mb pci on my dell dimension 3000 and I have some questions:

First: How do I deactivate the integrate card of my computer? It's an intel extreme 2.

Second and last question: It's said that my radeon 9250 256 mb has only pixel shaders 1.4 and vertex shaders 1.1 but I was sure that it has pixel shaders 2.0!!! Is there a driver to have the 2.0 or I've been misinformed for the shaders?