Greetings to each and everyone,
First of all I would like to greet everyone a happy new year, I have been going around the internet watching all the breakthroughs in gaming and computer technology, finally I have decided to upgrade my videocard, to something more suitable for modern games, My current rig is a AMD 4600+ X2 (socket 939), nForce 6150 Motherboard, 1GB PC3200 DDR1, 2 Harddrives (250GB Seagate SATA, and 80GB Seagate SATA), 1 DVD-Writer (Lite-on), my PSU is just the generic LC-B500E that comes with the casing, I'm planning to upgrade my videocard to Radeon x1950 XT 256MB, since reading different reviews and specification about this videocard, I came up with something about the required power supply of at least 450Watts and able to supply up to 30A in the 12V rails, then I started looking at my PSU which states that it is a 500Watts PSU, but what worries me is the 12V Rail which offers only something like 18Amps base on the description, please help I really do not understand this 12V rails is and what's this all about, thus that mean I really have to change my PSU as well? I'm really lame at this PSU stuff... Please help... :sigh:
Thanks Much Everyone, and have a Happy New Year...