Looking for a new graphics card

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Jawn

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Title says it.. I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card but I have a 380W power supply.
What type of power supply do you people recommend if I want to run a ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB DDR3 card?

Resolution: 1680x1050 (soon to be 2x 22" @ 1680x1050)
Use:
- HD movies
- 3D programs, rendering, etc (Cinema 4D)
- Other graphic programs, high DPI photoshop files
- Gaming

Feel free to comment on the graphics card also.
Thanks.
 
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For a Radeon HD2900PRO, you need at least 550W, I have an 850W hooked up to mine and it does just fine, the 550W struggled with it however.
 
Thanks Garethman!!`! I appreciate your feedback.


I also want to add that my budget is around 200$-250$ CAD, so if any of you know of a better card for that price please let me know.
 
Thanks ramodkk. That's a really useful link.

By the 8800GT you me the e-GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 Video Card? I was thinking of getting that, but my PCI-E is 1.0 and not 2.0. It is worth paying the price for that type of performance with my PCI-E is only 1.0?
 
Yeah, don't worry about PCI-e being 1.0 or 2.0 it will work. As far as I know, it is just saying that the card will support PCI-e 2.0 whenever it becomes the main, stable pci bus thingy :D

Oh and yeah, the 8800GT is right now the best card you can get for the price, that 8800GT from EVGA you said is a great deal. I wish it was around at that price when I was GPU hunting! :P

Oh, and I just noticed that the PSU Wattage list doesn't tell about the HD2900Pro but I think it falls under the HD2900XT requirements. Just so you know.
 
Mmm.. I'm probably going to buy the Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E Video Card.

Does anyone have any specific power supplies to recommend, good quality/good price?

Thanks.
 
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