All modern retail boxed vid card have power requirements on them, air flow? no but as the case with your brother, that's his fault for not reading the label on the box.Originally Posted by 570091D
orly?
one doesn't need a proper power supply, or good air flow? granted, most customers are ill-informed and unwilling to take the time to change that, but both companies attempt to make clear that you need to prepare you computer to handle the high end cards. my brother bought an 8800gts-512 and tried running it with a 350watt psu, he installed the card correctly but didn't read the requirements for the card before hand.pop goes the psu...
That said, i doubt you have to put in this type of consideration about massive power+air flow requirements if you were to go with a 5870...
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