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Nice, I'm not surprised. My overclocked quad @ 2.8 (X3320) with a 4850(oc'ed to 680core and 1100memory for testing, otherwise pretty much stock), 2hds, 2dvd drives, sound card and 3gig of ram. It only uses 250watts when maxed(p3 killawatt). Like it was said, as long as your power is stable and your PSU can pump out the correct amps on the 12v you are fine. When I list my specs people say a 500minimum or even 600. I'm using a 430 earthwatts (was using a 600W ultra, but ebayed it for the cooler quieter earthwatts, for the price I sold on ebay I made money on the earthwatts purchase 
People always overcompensate on PSU's. No idea why. Trying to sell their high end PSU's?
altough this threat is old it wont blow up your psu doing that usualy. i used to run athlon 2600+ system with a geforce 6800 ultra in it in a too weak cheast and with an even weaker psu which was meant for pentium 3 usage actualy. nomatter it worked fine but it can give problems such as overheating or in the worst case instability or lower preformance under load. i couldnt close the case or the ultra would have got cooked it entered near cooking point temps when i closed the case within a minute or too 
maybe because it was a factory overclocked xfx 6800 ultra but the card still works and is being used in my sisters pentium 4 system now. so im not sure if it would harm your hardware but dont worry to much about killing it. but when you start getting warnings that the minimum voltages are not met then you better upgrade the psu i think.
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