x1950 PRO AGP and my PSU

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I just recently decided that I would upgrade my video card to the x1950 PRO AGP. After a very, very lengthy research process, I filtered through the 512mb version and the 256mb version, and ultimately I decided that the performance gain wasn't worth the price, less I found a good 512 deal.

However, upon reading several reviews I came to realize that this card has some particular power issues with certain PSUs not giving it enough juice... I know very little in the power department or about PSUs, so I thought I'd ask here. Can I use a x1950 PRO AGP 256mb (or 512), with my current setup?

Antec TruePower 380w PSU (There's specs on the side, but I don't know how to interpret it well)
- DC Out | +5V | +12V | +3.3V | -5V | -12V | +5V SB|
- Max. ....| 35A |. 18A .|.. 28A ..| .5A | 1.0A |. 2.0 A .|
- Min. .....|. 0A .| 0.8A |... 0A ...|. 0A .|. 0A .|... 0A ...|

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard

Sorry, I'm a PSU noob, but any help would be much appreciate here... I just want to upgrade my card, but I dont' really want to spend extra cash to upgrade a PSU that'd been doing fine for over 2 years now. The price the Vid Card is enough at the moment, this power problem is beginning to sway me towards a less powerful card to save me the money on upgrading my PSU considering I'm going to make a new system down the road anyways.
 
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No, your current PSU won't cut it. While I know of one person on the forumz here ( I'm sure he'll be replying to this post :) ) who is running one with a 380W PSU with 22 amps on the 12v rail, it's recomended that you have a 450W PSU with 22-30 amps on the 12v rail. It's all about amps, and the 18 on your 12v rail won't be sufficient.
 
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That's what I figured... Anyone have any good suggetions for a PSU that would support this card will in the 22-30A range for a decent price? Preferably around $60. I guess I could go up to 100, but I hate to be dumping $300 total with that and the card into a system that will be replaced not too far down the road.
 
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The greatest PSU and my PSU: FSP Group AX-450-PN. Rock solid. There's just nothing that can compete with it in that price range. Will be enough for the X1950Pro. I'm not sure of its ability to power a GeForce 8800GTX, though.
 
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The x1950 pro has a power draw of 70W max (so consider that 6A of the 12v rail used) - depending on what other componants you have, critically the CPU, you may get away with it. If your CPU has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of less that about 80W I would say you can get away with using the current PSU..
 
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Thanks for all the help. I looked at the TDP and my proc is 110w. I was looking at that PSU earlier today actually, but I wasn't too incredibly keen on it not having cable sleeves, but obviously if its a good and stable PSU that won't deter me much.

As far as cards go, I've made my mind up concerning which one, I want the x1950, I reviewed about 50,000 different comparative reviews of the x1950 PRO and the 7600 GT and even though I like nvidia products more, the performance for price comparison is enough for me to buy the ATI card.

Thanks yet again, I'll keep doing my PSU shopping, keeping those in mind. I think I so a XCLIO one for about $50 as well, I'd have to go search for the link again. They pretty good company for PSUs?

(Specs since I didn't provide them)
2.8 ghz Pentium 4 HT (OC to 3.1ghz)
-Awaiting the x1950 PRO AGP-
2x 10,000 rpm WD Raptors in Raid 0 on SATA
2 Optical Drives
Audigy 2 Sound Card
2gb of Dual Channel DDR 400 Matched pairs ram
 
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i have a his x1950 pro 512mb agp (that i would sell by the way) and after getting it and benching the system i was suprised that the only way i could increase my score was to oc the system...my point is that the other components are my bottleneck..i even bought a pc power and cooling silencer 750 with 60 amps on 12v rail and results were the same. ive installed new drivers several times and the only conclusion i have is that untill i get a faster processor and ram the benefit would be very little..thats why now i am selling the new card and upgrading everything. i hope this will save you some needless expense. 8)
 
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my system...asus mb, p4 3.0e, 2gigs dual channel ddr, 750 watt psu, his x1950 pro 512mb agp, 60000 aquamark stock, 70000 oc to 3.45 ghz.
 
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No, your current PSU won't cut it. While I know of one person on the forumz here ( I'm sure he'll be replying to this post :) ) who is running one with a 380W PSU with 22 amps on the 12v rail, it's recomended that you have a 450W PSU with 22-30 amps on the 12v rail. It's all about amps, and the 18 on your 12v rail won't be sufficient.
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lol, your always the first on here! :p :lol:

To the OP, i hope you got your answer.
 
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No, your current PSU won't cut it. While I know of one person on the forumz here ( I'm sure he'll be replying to this post :) ) who is running one with a 380W PSU with 22 amps on the 12v rail, it's recomended that you have a 450W PSU with 22-30 amps on the 12v rail. It's all about amps, and the 18 on your 12v rail won't be sufficient.
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lol, your always the first on here! :p :lol:

To the OP, i hope you got your answer.

And some how you keep being mentioned. :lol:
 
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No, your current PSU won't cut it. While I know of one person on the forumz here ( I'm sure he'll be replying to this post :) ) who is running one with a 380W PSU with 22 amps on the 12v rail, it's recomended that you have a 450W PSU with 22-30 amps on the 12v rail. It's all about amps, and the 18 on your 12v rail won't be sufficient.
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lol, your always the first on here! :p :lol:

To the OP, i hope you got your answer.

And some how you keep being mentioned. :lol:


:lol: :lol:

ah well........just trying to help :lol:
 
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