wizzard0003
Limp Gawd
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Here's a few power use chart's below, to hopefully ease your mind a little. V-card makers way overstate power needs, due mostly in part, to all the poor quality units in the market place, that don't come close to there listed outputs, so take all this with a big grain of salt ! The unit you have now, should be fine with your current hardware specs. Or, if you'd feel better, the Antec that Honest John listed, would be a good unit at the right price. I've run Antecs units, and have done well, with all of them. You get what you pay for, right.
Just for yuks, here's a x1950 pro running on a 300 watter, with 18 amps on the 12 volt rail. CPU is a little slower though, about 20 watts less power use, than yours.
http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1950proagp/4.shtml
Power use chart=
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q4/radeon-x1950-pro/index.x?pg=10
According to that chart the X1950PRO uses 147 Watt's (12.25 Amp's) Idle and 206 Watt's
under load (17 Amp's...! )
I'd say 18 Amp's is way too little... My system (with an nVidia FX5900) wouldn't even run
stable with my old PSU with 18 Amp's on the +12V rail and would do a H-A-R-D shutdown
(Ambulance Siren) if I tried to do ANYTHING besides surf the net...
(and even then sometimes... )
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Katotonic,
If you're looking for a Good Quality PSU, that's easy on the wallet, (other than
the one that honestjohn suggested) I would suggest one of the Fortrons (FSP).
They are generaly "Underated" meaning they are usually "Better" than they claim.
This is the Fortron that I use:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954
50 bucks + shipping. Dual +12V rails @18 amps each (29 amps combined max).
Hope this helps...
PS:
That Antec that hj listed has 3 (three) +12V rails @ 18 Amp's each which
would be better but does cost a bit more... May be worth it though...