Looking To Upgrade Video Card - Need PSU Advice

The Miker

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Hi all. I've done quite a bit of research but I'm still uncertain as to whether or not it would be "safe" to upgrade my video card on my current PSU. I'm especially nervous since my particular PSU has bad secondary caps (it's the Rosewill RP500-2 500w) that will pretty much explode under too much heat.

These are my system specs at the moment:

AMD Phenom II X4 925 95w @ 2.8GHz
XFX Radeon HD 4850 1GB
4GB DDR2 800 RAM
2 SATA HDDs
1 IDE 7200 RPM HDD
1 DVDRW drive
Rosewill RP500-2 500w PSU
Gigabyte M61PME-s2 motherboard (with a PCIe 16x 1.1 connector...)

It seems like it's holding up fairly well with my current video card, but I would like to upgrade to a DX11 card (yeah I know, late to the party, right?) but I don't know if my system can handle it. The card I'm looking to upgrade to is a GTX 460 (preferably 1GB). I know it has two PCIe connectors, but that it also comes with molex adapters, which is great because my PSU only has one PCIe power cable.

So yeah, what I would like to know is if my current system will be able to handle a GTX 460 1GB or not. Thanks!