300W PSU, nVi

[lurker_x]

basic system

I'm also using a 21w" monitor at the moment.

I've heard good things about the Radeon 4670 but I'd like to stay with a nVidia card. I'd like to keep my 300w (268w on the 12V) PSU for the moment as well. It's half a present for my wife and half a present for me so she stops complaining about how slow her WoW runs and I stop having to hear about it.

I tried calculating my current watt usage but http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp was a bit intimidating.
It's either 175 or 268 or 300. Hrm. In any case, I don't want to fry it. No USB devices at least, that much I figured out.

Ideas?

 

[le13enforce]

Well are you looking at any particular NVIDIA card? I don't you should worry too much though, as even the more powerful models don't require more than 45W of power.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well are you looking at any particular NVIDIA card? I don't you should worry too much though, as even the more powerful models don't require more than 45W of power.

What planet are you on?
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