Which video card for this system?

fortyways

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I'm tired of the red puter in my sig and I want to steal my fiance's, the one in blue, and build her another, but I still want to be able to play Battlefield 2, CSS and HL2 at the lowest settings.

I'm looking for the coolest, most energy efficient PCIe x16 video card. I won't be upgrading the 380Watt Antec Earthwatts PSU. I also will be ordering 2x1GB DDR2 667 Corsair Value Select RAM.

I was looking at the MSI GeForce 8400 GS. It's passively cooled, but I don't know about the energy consumption.

The minimum req for BF2 is 128mb VRAM and something or other series, and I imagine the other two games are that or less.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371005

There's the PSU, 17Amps on two 12V rails, I don't know about the overall amperage.
 
yeah the 8400gs would do it. with my 7300gs, i'm playing battlefield 2 on medium settings, hl2 and css on max settings but without hdr and antialiasing.
 
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