EVGA says my power supply is not good enough...

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brentduo

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I upgraded from a 650i and a E6550 to a 750i FTW and E8400. I have a evga 9800 gt plus. It worked great on the 650i. I am trying to install the drivers and I have been unsucessfull at installing the ones on the cd as well as the ones off their website. When I reboot I just get poor resolution I just can't enable the graphics card. I have been talking to evga support they are telling me my power supply isn't big enough. I have a 500w coolermaster it was fine before and shouldn't be a problem now. They say the card takes 450w itself. I think they are full of crap. What do you guys think?
 
A 9800GT takes either 150W or 225W peak, as it pulls 75W per PCI-E connector, and it takes 75W from the motherboard itself, unless they're thinking 2-way or 3-way SLI, I dont see how that's possible, as Computer_Freak put it, not even a GTX 280 draws that much (Or for that matter a Radeon 4870X2)
 
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FYI brentduo the wattage of the PSU does not matter too much, you need to make sure the amps in your 12v rails is at least 28amps.
 
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