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I picked up one of these along with my 4850: $22 485W PSU
Edit: Unfortunately, I don't think the OEM version of the PSU comes with the 6-pin power connector you need. My XFX card came a 6-pin adapter for PSUs without such, but your PowerColor card may not have...
I know your probably eager to use your new card, looking on google I can't seem to find any specifications for your psu you have currently, I see someone has already suggested buying a new psu, I would recommend this one Power Supply. Will be very good and hopefully be able to upgrade again sometime when you need to, OCZ are a good quality PSU maker, and by reading the customer reviews this thing is pretty good, runs a 4870 easily.
The main question would be does the power supply have a PCI-Express 6-pin power connnector?, what card do you have in the machine currently?
but I would highly suggest buying a more powerful power supply, because there's a good chance that your current power supply will be under-powering the card.
This is very true, I had an issue with a power supply, it's not like yours about the possibility of under-powering the system by adding a component, but it was just a faulty psu, what it did was I built my PC, turn it on, and 2 days later it had fried my motherboard, cpu and created faults in my ram, so running on a low power psu for a long time with components that may overpower it may indeed cause it to crap out, and may take said components down with it, just a word of caution.
hey iam also from india.always go for brande psus like corsair,ocz.but note that the extra price is really worth it
http://cgi.ebay.in/Cooler-Master-eXtreme-Power-Plus-460-W-Power-Supply-MOD_W0QQitemZ160355617268QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_203?hash=item2555f089f4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14http://cgi.ebay.in/CORSAIR-450-Watts-Smps-Power-Supply-High-Performance_W0QQitemZ150365729040QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_203?hash=item23027ef110&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
out of them 2, buy the Corsair VX 450w.
This your card?
Here's the power consumption idle, average and load (128w idle, 192 average, 208 full load)
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_4850/21.html
here is a picture of the power stats for the
Corsair 450w VX Series Power Supply
See the top psu with the green title "Corsair Vx specifications: model cmpsu-450vx", here you will see the +12v rail saying it can handle 396w, so considering the power consumption of the above card I think you should be fine, even taking into account your system spec.
and this is a very stupid question to ask now but the card says "PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface" mine is "asrock conroe 945g-dvi" which is a old motherboard http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=CONROE945G-DVI does this board support the card?? i couldnt find any information on the pcie version this board supportsvijay_iitm
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26124455
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=CONROE945G-DVIhere is your motherboard straight from the manufacturers site, it says "1 x PCI Express x16 slot" so yes you have the correct interface, don't worry that it isnt Pci-express 2.0, because all pci-express 2.0 cards are down-compatible with pci-express 1.0 and 1.1.
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