Good psu for evga 9800gtx+

[wolfen21]

right now i have 500 watt psu and was wondering if i should get a new psu because i didn't know if mine is doing the job right because i have to have it on high just to get full power to run my gpu.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152040&Tpk=raidmax

 

[Pyroflea]

What are your full specs?

 

[wolfen21]

Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ (2 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Hard Drive: 320 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Sound Card: (C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus M2N-SLI 560

 

[wolfen21]

basically i wanted to know if i should get a new psu or keep the one i have

 

[slick3]

Well the 9800GTX+ requires a min. of 450w PSU (correct me if i'm wrong), and also requires a PSU with +12 Volt current rating of 24 Amp ... and your PSU delivers only 20A ...

IF you are considering to upgrade your PSU ... then why not buy the GPU first and test if it works or not ... if it works and OS is booting fine, then run some demanding games like Crysis and check if everything is running normally (no artifacts, no BSOD, no crashes etc) ...

If not, then you can always upgrade your PSU to something better ...

But Paul the octopus is saying the current PSU is gonna do the job ....