AGP upgrade question

Use this PSU calc to help you figure out power requirements:

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

I think it sounds risky to use a 350w PSU that you're not sure about with an X1950 card. If you want to upgrade your card you should probably upgrade PSU.

Anyway, you will see a performance jump with a 1950. In Oblivion the difference between a 6800GT and 1950 Pro at 1024*768 is 10fps vs 24.7fps. Check out the THG VGA Charts to see if the games you play are listed there:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] &chart=204

(on that link I highlighted the 2 GPUs mentioned)

You will definetly need to upgrade your psu if you are planning to upgrade.
@http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103941

You said that you found a 1950Pro w/512mb of memory?
Make sure you double check, that 512mb could be ddr2 rather than GDDR3.

Get the card with GDDR3. Even though it has 256mb of memory

Hope this helps

That's an excellent question about the power. I hope someone answers cause I have the same question.

Also, Bluntside that you for making the point about the ddr2, and 3. That was great info.

The sapphire x1950 pro 512mb uses two molex(the kind your cdrom uses) connectors to supply power to the card. I checked my computers ( I have 3!) power supplies and all three of them get power for the molex connectors from one rail only! If this is standard pratice throughout the power supply industry no wonder so many people are having problems with the sapphire x1950pro agp. It simply is not being supplied with enough current from multi rail power supplies. You need a power supply with a single 12v rail at least 35 amps or more. I personally would not cut it so close (the sapphire x1950 pro agp requires 30 amps on the 12v rail ) so I would look for a power supply with a single 12v rail of at least 40 amps! By the time you add the price of that serious a power supply to the price of the agp video card I wonder if its not time to switch to pci-ex?