PSU Sufficient Enough?

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It's fine for your current system and will handle something like an HD 5870 or GTX 470 fine although if you're going for any CrossFireX/SLI setups later on with your newer graphics card you will want a newer PSU, and as Davcon said it's not very efficient, 70% at full load, it's 80% or so with newer PSUs that have an 80+ rating.
 

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Ok thanks for the answers guys, One more question. My old AMD board used the 4-pin connection.

And this new motherboard seems to use the 8-pin EPS is this the one I should use on this board or should I still be using the 4-pin.
 

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Yeah it has an 8-pin but I didn't know if I needed to use that one and I didn't see anything in the manual maybe gotta look harder.

But there is a plastic guard covering four of the 8-pin on the motherboard.