hey guys i have come across a sapphire radeon hd 3850 the agp version with a gig of memory and dual dvi (pretty nice card). anyways i want to stick it in my old dell precision and just kinda make it a tiny little gaming comp. the psu in the dell is only a 300 watt which i know is no were near close to running this card. so i was wondering if i could use this little psu i have laying around (its an old delta electronics 160 watt psu the model number is dps-150bb-1 b rev:01) and i was wondering if i could just hook the delta up to the graphics chip using a molex to 8 pin adapter and use it. it says on the label that +5v & +3.3v total output power cant exceed 100w. thats why im asking can i just use the molex? or will i have to do some moding and cut up the atx plug or something (i dont care if i rip it apart)
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You need at least 18a on the 12v for the AGP card. One "better" gpu will always be better than two low quality units. I would sell both off and get a quality unit.
well i just go to my local store micro center, and they have this one ail (i think thats how you spell it) that is all returned stuff. like i got these two webcams that were like the microsoft expensive ones for like 15 bucks and all that had happened was the box was damaged during shipping. same thing for my motherboard, the box was ripped so they knocked off 20 bucks and did a free test thing on it 
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