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Just got a 660m card, but laptop won't turn on (the blue power light comes on for 1 sec then shuts off). When I put the 460m back in, the laptop starts fine.

Is the AC power supply 150W enough to power this thing? Or did I get a faulty GPU?

There is a 180W AC power adapter, but that's another $90 bucks...

Thanks

I'm thinking about building a gaming desktop. However, I don't want to buy a Z87 motherboard, and then I won't be able to upgrade to the next Intel Broadwell CPU. For gaming purposes, would I see a performance boost with broadwell. My understanding is that the bottleneck for gaming is typically at GPU, so that's why there isn't much difference between i7 and i5 for gaming.

MSI gaming laptop are great too. Some of 15 inch screens aren't too expensive.

So I need to get the 660M 1 gb to make this work? Would the 2 gb memory 660M card work?