Is 480W sufficient for new gaming cards?

How do I check this rails and stuff? I just went to the website this is my PSU - http://www.antec.com/us/support_pr [...] dID=07481.

My Antec Neo480 (not NeoHE) has 18 amps on 12v1 and 15 on 12v2 if that is of any help.

Bought mine back in late 2k5.

If I do have to get a new PSU. Then is generic PSU's ok? The reason I got Antec 3 years ago was that I was into overclocking that time.

Now I dont overclock anymore. Well I am going overseas to Malaysia in December and the only PSU's above 550W are branded. The cheapest of the 550W is CoolerMaster Real Power which is $400 (108USD), or 600W CoolerMaster Real Power which is $500 (136USD). Or I might be able to find a generic brand which cost 50USD.

What are your reccomendations. My new rig would be:

Core 2 Duo 6400
Socket 965P Motherboard
2GB Corsair Value Ram
X1900XT
Audigy 2 ZS
2*120GB SATA Harddisk
ThermalTake LanParty Casing (has 4 fans with a control panel)

PS: Could you go look at the specs of my old 480W Antec, I have an attachment in the previous post. I dont understand all this Volt, Amp stuff.

My casing is blocking me from reading it? I dont intend to dismantle the PSU now, anyway these are the figures I obtained from the website. Dont know why the previous link didnt work here is the new one:

http://www.antec.com/specs/true480_spe.html

OUTPUT
----------- | Max Load---- | Min Load
+5V------ | 38A-------- | 0A
-5V------- | 0.5A-------- | 0A
+12V----- | 28A-------- | 0.8A
-12V------ | 10.A------- | 0A
+3.3V---- | 30A------- | 0A
+5V SB--- | 2A-------- | 0A

Does this mean I have only 1 rail? And its 28A... so this means its ok right coz you mentioned iether 2 rails with 16A or 1 rail with 26A (and it says I have 28A).

Here's the real deal about their power draws. Sorry about my former post.

Sounds like the whole setup to me. But those are around the requirements for the actual highest end cards arent they?

Thank God SLI will always have that awful $/performance point it currently keeps.

Thanks alot mpilchfamily and the rest of you guys. That will save me from buying a costly PSU, when I can use that money to buy other parts.

I guess buying that Antec 3 years ago was a good investment. Never once did it KO on me. Those generics KO'd my dad's PC a couple of times. One time it fried the motherboard.

Also now I know abit more about Watts & Amps.

if you are running non SLI your power supply should be fine. here are my system's specs and it runs 24/7 no problems
asus socket 939 asn32deluxe -sli
antec true power 480W (with the blue lights) bought in 2004 as well
amd athlon 64 4800 x2
2 SATA HDS(320 gig, 120 gig)
2 IDE (60gig, 200gig)
bfg 7900gtx
2gig OCZ titanium
lighton DVD burner w/lightscribe
plextor 52x burner
5 case fans, and it runs fine,

and the rails look fine underload with the monitoring software. so I would say that you probably arnt as hardware heavy as my comp is right now so it should be fine

Cheaper? Woah thats a amazing. Actually theyre one of the cheapest but ive heard theyve got awful customer support and warranties, the complete opposite to ABS.
When Ill get rich ill spend so much in sophisticated cooling solutions that ill be earned a world class overclocking record. But definetly keep on building my own

Won't a 400-450W PSU be enough if it has two 12V rails with 14-18A in each?

Sucky part is once SLI is mature and everything gets coded for it correctly youll be seeing close to 100% gains in games if not 100% gains. it just sucks balls right now unless you play oblivion or fear since from what i have seen they have been optimised with SLI.
I think for the enthuasiasts SLI will simply die instead of gaining ground. Simply because we OC and take the best $/performance, while the masses fall for the hype.

The main reason for those two games is because they have "inefficient" rendering engines (wich is also what makes the game looks really good). But at least for the average joe playing at 16x12 or lower, SLI would be worthless. Now if youll spend on a 30 incha thats a whole different deal

Hopefully SLI will become more efficient so the whole "get a card now and another one later" thing will finally make sense.

We answered, they read and learn. Its all good

On day it comes out $1999.99 lol ill be waiting a while since i dont expect to upgrade again till about april. im hoping it will have come down at least $500 MORE would be nice.

i would love to get a 40" if i could find one wiht good specs and double it as my TV. Course im into the massive graphics thing. i liked the 1600x1200 res back in the day when i had a radeon 64 vivo and before with my 8500 though most games wouldnt run at that res with those cards. cant go back though. my old viewsonic p815 could do 1920x1440 and im still not liking the 1920x1200 i lost like 3 inchs of space and i want it back D:

size of the screen doesnt actualy matter its the resolutions (im assuming your talking about sli/xfire having little use in low resolutions.) i could get a 65inch monitor with a really stupid low res. Anyways 19" is way to small havent used something that small in years. My desk is about 3 feet to the wall with another foot behind that and i currently have a 24: which is pretty nice. Frame rates, high detail, and super insane resolutions are what i want with a vary large view area. I use a single card now and have no problems but when i move to that 30" I'm most likely going to need alot more horsepower when it comes to my gaming then a single card will throw out. I'm hoping by that time developers will have fixed that whole coding dibacle .

I never sell my old comp i just move it down the line. G/f gets my old one and the rest go on the network. As for speakers I'm getting these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6836119106

My old set 2.1 i got probly about 12 years ago finaly died. Not even sure why i kept them they always crackled and the sub always cut out. Anyways its all prefference we have a 19" here and its way to freakin small with the resalutions i want it to do (1920x1440) its a CRT of course .

idk why ppl are so into widescreens lately, personally I dislike them (prolly because I dont watch many dvds orhate flight simulators ). And my rooms so small than anything over a 20.1" (a 24" might fit in the wall tough) and the logitech X-530 im getting would be overkill :x
But im telling, playing at 2500x1600 use a dual DX10 setup wont come in cheap. Youll need a monster PSU too hehe, but man thatld be an experience.
k now you need to stop bragging

I was and am kinda still with you on that wide screen thing. Its a real pain in the ass with some games and programs.

30" btw is no worse for gaming then a 19" and the res of the monitor i showed is 2560x1600. 19" LCD i have seen as high as 1600x1200 which to me would be a waste of a 19" to have less. but yes i would love a res of 3200xwhatever as long as it was at least 1600 course i dont think even SLI/Xfire could do that at what settings i preffer.

As for the memory question 1gig is good if you dont use alot of ram for otherthings. I do recommend the 2gigs for those types of games. i went from 1 to 2gig and this videocard that i have now and it was amazing how much smoother the game was. the ram did of course not add alot to it other then it didnt take foreever to cache the whole damn map and leave me lag struck for about 4 minutes. Thats one major complaint i have about BF2 that and no widescreen support which is why im still irritated with wide screen.

I do watch alot of movies on my computer having much smaller bars on the top and bottom is a nice touch course since im not into 16:9 monitors i preffer 16:10 ill always have those little bars just not huge 4 inch bars on top and bottom its more like 1inch on top and bottom now.