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Wondering if I have enough juice to power up a 4870 or not

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The old lady is going to buy me a 4870 for christmas and I wanted to make sure I have enough power for it or if im going to have to pawn off my old PSU to her new computer and get a better one for my PC. Right now I have a 580 watt PSU, if this isnt enough what should I get when I do upgrade to a better one?
My Setup.

AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition Quad Core
8 GB of OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066
2 Sata hard drives
1 IDE Dvd burner
Case:Antec 900 with all 5 120 mm fans and the 200 mm fan running

Thanks for the help

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I run a 550 and I'm fine

------------------------------ Q6600...4870oc
XFX 680i LT Sli...VISTA 64
4g Corsair XMS
Antec P180/550 psu
Reply to jackieboy

mmm.... sounds like youd be cutting it close. enter in your system configuration into the power calculator and find out:
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

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