newbie question (re: vid card and monitor)

netske

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hi everyone, i have a newbie question, help will be much appreciated.

i have 2 questions

1.) im planning to buy palit gtx 680 jetstream (and motherboard and processor ) and im wondering if my psu can power it, my current psu can power geforce 9800GT and i cant remember if its 550w, 600w or 650w, but i do remember that it was one of those cuz i was advised to upgrade my psu when i purchased my 9800GT before, i tried finding the receipt cuz im sure the power rating of the PSU is mentioned there. I tried opening the chassis but i cant seem to find the power rating label of my PSU, it must be covered by sometihing (wirings, obstacle etc)

2.) im using a 23inch LED monitor and when i use 1920x1080x1080p resolution, overscreen occurs. ive read in some forums that nvidia cards have problems with displaying 1920x1080 through hdmi or dvi because the card actually sends 1990x1200 (i cant remember exactly the numbers) but the point is, they say that overscreen occurs because of this. So i settle with 1600x900 resolution which is a bit of a disappointment since i cant use the max resolution of my LED tv. My question is, do modern geforce cards like the 600 series still has this problem?
 
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I can't say about the 600 series, but I have no issue outputting 1080p on a fx2500m and the 480. You should be fine with a 680.
 
A 680 will run fine at 1080p, my GeForce GTS 450 didn't have a problem running a 1080p monitor and nor did my ancient 6600 GT when I had to use it temporarily.

What PSU have you got? There should be a make and model written somewhere on it, you may need to remove the unit temporarily to find out.
 
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