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GTX 460 on 500 Watts PSU?

Gux

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I am planing to upgrade my ancient x1950pro to GTX 460 768mb but I am not sure if my PSU can handle the wattage and amps. Currently I am running Coolermaster Igreen 500W PSU. (Link)

I am not sure how to calculate the total amps my PSU can give and I am not sure what the amps are required for a GTX 460. The card that I am planing to get is a ZOTAC and it says the required PSU for the card is 450W on their official website.

But the problem is I am already running Phenom II X6 1090t, 4GB of RAM and two HDD's. I don't know if my PSU is strong enough to run everything ok.

Any ideas If my PSU is good enough?

Thx ;)
 
I am on tight budget and I have already stepped over it in order to get the GTX 460. Before I was planing on getting HD5770 but the extra performance was worth the extra cash.

I am mainly playing at 1440x900 so I don't really require a fast GPU with loads of VRAM. This should last me for a couple of years hopefully.
 
I had two hdds, two dvdr drives on a 520watt psu. It couldnt handle it. I cant be positive that it was the psu but I'm reasonably sure.
 
Calabi said:
I had two hdds, two dvdr drives on a 520watt psu. It couldnt handle it. I cant be positive that it was the psu but I'm reasonably sure.
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Must have been a crap PSU, mine handles WAY more than you would expect. (see sig)
 
Calabi said:
It was a corsair hx 520watt. It was over 4 years old though.
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what graphics card did u have ?

theres no way a hx520 would have struggled with that


i had a pc with 8 hdd, 3 dvdr and GTS250 running of the hx520 without a problem
 
The gtx 460. I thought it might be something to do with the two six pin pci ex connection, not enought voltage through them perhaps.
 
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