500W okay for Radeon 6950?

Might be upgrading to a Radeon 6950 soon, but I'm stuck on 500W. Is it fine for this kind of card?

What's worse is that I want to overclock this card to a Radeon 6970 :P I don't have a great knowledge of PSU's so any input will be greatly appreciated. My rig for the lulz:

AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz
OCZ 4GB RAM DDR2
EVGA GTS 250 512mb
ASUS M4A77D
Windows 7 32-bit (Need 64 D: )

Generally this isn't a good idea but tell us your PSU model anyway.

if it is a very nice 500watt like one of corsair's high quality it probably could handle it. But in general i would not reccomend it.

[QUOTE="Chiddaling"]Eh, I knew it would come down to this. :lol: My PSU is an unknown brand, if I remember correctly. I think I'm better off saving for a better PSU. How would a GTX 470 be with a 500W Unknown Brand PSU :lol:Elemayo

The 6900 series GPUs have a feature which allows the user to adjust their power consumption by increasing it or decreasing it by 20 percent. Since 500 watts is the minimum recommended wattage for the 6950, decreasing its power consumption by 20 percent should prevent any problems. Hence, he could still get the card, and then pick up a new PSU later on.

If you had a decent brand then 500w is way more than enough, an i7 system overclocked to 4ghz and a 6950 doesn't even draw 350watts at load. I would really find out what brand though if possible.

[QUOTE="Elemayo"][QUOTE="Chiddaling"]Eh, I knew it would come down to this. :lol: My PSU is an unknown brand, if I remember correctly. I think I'm better off saving for a better PSU. How would a GTX 470 be with a 500W Unknown Brand PSU :lol:BluRayHiDef

The 6900 series GPUs have a feature which allows the user to adjust their power consumption by increasing it or decreasing it by 20 percent. Since 500 watts is the minimum recommended wattage for the 6950, decreasing its power consumption by 20 percent should prevent any problems. Hence, he could still get the card, and then pick up a new PSU later on.

But even with an unknown brand PSU, this "method" is safe?