[Coldstone]

Originally Posted by Fury

You just told him to buy...a recertified card..now i praise you for taking the EvGA brand but NEVER BUY CARDS UNLESS THERE NEW! Your better off shelling out that extra 20-45 dollars

And in all honesty, unless youve got a power supply with sufficient 12v rails your going to want to go with an older card, such as the 7xxx Series, these cards are cheap, extremely efficient, and unless you O'C them they last forever.

I suggested this card, because it normally would cost nearly twice as much and not only 40 dollars more, this is an 8800GTS.

The 7000 series was quite ok, but nowadays costs way too much for its power compared to the 8000 series. a 7950 is more expensive than an 8800GT, not to mention the even faster GTS, which beat it easily. And with a powersupply with 450-500 watts you easily can use one 8800gts card with a dual core cpu, especially Intel.

If your PSU doesnt support the connectors, there are adaptors usually delivered with the card or cheap to get.
I for myself had a 7900GS running with an adaptor on a quality 300 watts PSU together with quite some hardware and dual core cpu and a 8800GTS doesnt need over 100 watts more than this card.
The totally useless hype in getting 700-1000 watts for even a single video solution just because people dont know the real usage of the systems is kinda annoying.