Does this drain CPU or Video Card Power when in use? If I plan on using this, will it slow my computer down at all?
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I have been using one and have not found slowness to be an issue at all. Your milage may vary. I run three -headed, very regularly for hour and hours per day - sometimes more than 20. However I run with my charger plugged into my laptop almost all of the time. I plub my Diamond BVU USB directly into one of the two USB ports on the side of my early-2011 Macbook Pro i7 2 GHz Intel Core I7 laptop with 16 GB of RAM installed and a booted from a 480 GB Crucial SSD, BTW.
1341065
I do not have problems with speed... but since OSX Mavericks it does not work anymore and diamond is not providing driver that works. Has worked very well with previous version of OSX
1341066
no drainage on the CPU at all. It is an USB device but you are not using it to send/receive data you are only sending and the box is a converter. So you will be good to go.
2143195
I haven't noticed it to be slow or laggy at all. I'm not a power gamer or anything, so if you are that might be different. I've had 6 windows working at a time, and noticed no problems.
698307
Depends on what your processor, bottleneck is sometime an issue,, power supply is ok,
1092908
Asus says the onboard CPU only takes 17W of power to power on. The rest depends on what else is assembled in the system.
450645
I am thinking it is not powerful enough for the load being put on it. Mine does the same thing since I upgraded to a higher power supply in my computer. I am not impressed with it myself.
2069131
You aren't going to get twice the power from two cards. You'll get roughly 1.5 times the power, more graphics give diminished returns. It will double the power consumption and heat though.
1475315
Stuff like flash (youtube) is very processor (cpu) dependent; I recently put this in an old machine which had an old intel core 2 duo e4700 and it was fine. So compare that with your own setup. It did seem like it was stuttering if anything else was running. It might be worth it to put another 10 dollars into the video card, but if all your going to be doing is running youtube video it's fine. (Although seriously consider bumping up slightly.)
2085603
It is rated at 65W running entirely off of the PCIe slot. I don't know actual consumption.
1515100
Should be fine - the 4th Gen Core series are very power efficient, and that processor only has a TDP of 54W. TDP doesn't equal consumption, but it's close enough. Without a video card, the only other significant consumers are disks, which are 20W at worst. 200W is plenty of headroom for a system like this.
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I don't believe that it will have sufficient power. I built nothing but 350 to 400 watt computers up until the time I finished that machine. Since then, to be safe and not sorry, I have installed Thermaltake 700's and one Coolermaster 600 80% guaranteed unit in my newer builds. When the prices come down with rebates, there is no need to under power these machines. More IS better and simplifies things a lot.
1197663
It only uses the PCI-E slot no power needed it gets its power form the slot. Hope that helps Ed
220176
Shouldn't have a problem. I am running this card in a system with a Pentium D dual core. So I would think you should get way better results than me. I run mine as a media server to my TV. Works great, streams over the HDMI beautifully. I really like the card for what I use it for. The only issue is that you will need space large enough for it, no mini cases or anything like that, and it needs good air movement. In my HP system that required me to drill holes in the side so it could draw fresh air. Then again mine is ancient, so you probably have a more modern case with more than 1 fan. If you want this card for extreme gaming... Well you would probably have something more than an i5 system. It will probably do decent for light gaming, I just wouldn't expect too much out of it. Hope that helps.
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Can you? Yes. Should you? No. As Andrew Agustin mentioned, this is a processor meant for energy savings (think of a school, library, or office setting). I use it to power a small file server and though it runs just fine, if I use it as a regular desktop and try to browse the internet while streaming music it will shoot to around or over 50% utilization (idle runs at 10-20%). The OS installed is Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center (thanks to an academic license, which is just plain idiotic to give away as that OS retails for around $1,000 easy).
914700
If you're looking for a video card for gaming I'd recommend a card with higher specs. I use it for videos on my HTPC and light gaming, it performs as I need it to, but it lags.
296195
I have been using this computer as a work computer without any problems at all. The one thing I would suggest is getting a 550 watt power supply and changing it out as soon as your get the system. I have found lots of people have had problems with the incredibly wimpy one that comes with it.
1270573
The heat sink/fan caused me some trouble. I'd reckon you consider the Sapphire Radeon 7750 LPF as it is a proper Low profile card ad noticeably more powerful.
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in addition to the info herrdoktor330 asked for include total system specs. If the temps in the bios aren't excessively high (note that chip does tend to run hot) run stress tests while in the OS and monitor the temps while the cpu is both idle and under load. Oh and just to be clear when you say "shutting down" do you mean it powers down completely or crash and reboots?