500 watt PSU enough for this quad core?

[TylerZambori]

hi all,

hre are the parts:

intel q6600 quad core cpu
gskill ddr2 800, 4 gb.
GIGABYTE GA-EG41MF-S2H mobo
(it has on board video)
ASUS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner
seagate 500gb hard drive


Ok, the PSU is: Antec earthwatts 500w PSU.

This is actually going to be used for netting and
writing mostly. It's going to get a quad core cpu
because I decided to upgrade mine, and want
to put my old cpu and ram on this computer for
my boyfriend. It will also serve as a backup
computer in case I have problems with mine.

It won't need a raid array or lots of extras,
and will only have one hard drive.

I assume this will work fine with the onboard
video only, but what about if I add my old
nvidia 8800gt video card? It has 512 mb of
memory.

Thanks for your thoughts in advance.

 

[Jakl]

You can install your 8800GT and you will still have plenty of power.

500w is Good enough

 

[erocker]

Earthwatts are very nice PSU's. Keeping everything (mostly) stock I don't see any problems with installing the video card in your system.

 

[Black Panther]

It is fine. The 8800GT only needs 22-24A on the +12V rail and your PSU's combined output of its two +12V rails is 408W or exactly 34A.

It's basically like my own psu... only you've got two 17A +12V rails while I got one 16A and one 18A +12V rails.

 

[TylerZambori]

Thanks everyone! yes, everything will be stock,
there won;t be any overclocking.

Very good, thanks for your help.