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Hello Frybrain;

It shouldn't be a problem. Give us the make/model of the PSU so we can be sure.

But there may be better options for your $75 than an older Phenom 9850 2.5G CPU.
What motherboard are you working with?

I actually have no idea what brand PSU I have, it came with my premade cyberpower, which I bought when I knew nothing about computers and thought it was actually good. I upgraded my ram and GPU, but later I found my cpu and motherboard was lacking.

My motherboard is ASUS M2N SLI NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI Chipset, which I'm fairly certain can't CPUs without a am2+ socket.
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Power supply Master
CPUs Master

I don't expect your PSU to have any problem since it's been running that OC'd video card and OC'd x2 5200+.
Just to be on the safe side I'd roll the GPU back to stock clocks for the initial install and testing period.

The X3 445 is overclock friendly too. The X4 9850 barely reached 3Ghz and the X3 445 was nearing 4Ghz for some people.
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