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Originally Posted by BulletCatcher
What wattage power supply do you have KnifeMissle? An X800 XL power requirements are only slightly higher than an X300. If power consumption is your only concern then don't let that stop you from upgrading.
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You raise an interesting point...
I have a 350W power supply to run (I don't know what makes a difference so I'll just list everything) an Asus P5AD2 motherboard with an Intel P4 3.0GHz and 2GB RAM, two SATA hard drives and one ATA drive, a DVD burner, and various USB peripherals, including mouse, keyboard, Wacom tablet, and the occasional control pad. All with a PCI Ex. ATI X300 (or maybe the X in X300 already mentions the PCI Ex? I don't know these things...).
Most importantly, when I bought my computer parts, the guy at the store was kind enough to tell me that the connector for my power supply didn't fit my motherboard! The mother board has more pins than the power supply because it was designed to run more hardware than my power supply could reasonably supply but that, because my video card took up as little power as it did (being a shitcan accelerator), I can simply plug the few pins that were there into the motherboard and everything will still run. So, you can imagine my reticence over buying a new video card...