How improtant is power supply for graphic card

[DONMVP]

Stupid me just bought a new card e-geforce 7600 gs , got so mesmorised chatting with sales guy did`nt look at min requirments says 400 and i have 350 power . Any suggestions welcome .

[Marauders]

The 12V+ rail is the most important.  The graphics card makers often inflate the power supply number because many power supply manuafacturers inflate the numbers.
 
I have 350W power supplies that would spank some low cost so called 450W power supplies in actual power.
 
The question is if your 350W supply is high quality or not.
 
 

[garysorrell]

I dont think running the new card with the 350 will hurt anything. If it cant handle the card, it would likely become obvious very quickly.

However, it could cause a rift in the space/time continuum. So upgrading to a higher watt power supply isnt very expensive and is an easy install.

[jdhalfrack]

However, it could cause a rift in the space/time continuum.

This is true. Back in the 30's & 40's, with the first ever computers, they used the wrong power supply down in Bermuda... Well, the rest is history.

JD

[Bobolini]

ORIGINAL: DONMVP

Stupid me just bought a new card e-geforce 7600 gs , got so mesmorised chatting with sales guy did`nt look at min requirments says 400 and i have 350 power . Any suggestions welcome .

Don that's the card I'm running and my power supply is 350W. Should be no problem

[throttle8]

Don,

Last month I bought a Antec Earthwatts 500w & a XFX Geforce 8600gt card. Below is the link to the power supply. (they also have a Earthwatts 450w however, the 500w is at a really good price right now!!!)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817371007

My integrated graphics card that came with the computer was a GeForce 6150 LE. It was getting to the point where I was getting limited as to what games I could play on it.

It was very easy to pull out the old one & put in the new one (I'm a novice).

You may get by with your current setup if you don't have a lot of ram.