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Thank you everyone for the help :)

Thanks :) I just need to know if it'll work for about a month without frying or anything. The Antec 400w I have is from an older build, and I wanted to use it for a while until I could get around to buying a 500w. I don't plan on overclocking if it means anything lol.

I was wondering because the 6870 has a recommended rating of 500w, but on the system builder marathon here, the system with a 6870 in it used a total of less then 300, so a 400w for sure is safe? I don't know much about power supplies :/

Hi, I just recently built a budget system, and I wanted to upgrade from integrated graphics to a Radeon Hd 6870 or a 6850 but I don't know if my psu is enough. My specs are: Amd Phenom 2 x4 840 (95w tdp) 4gb DDR3 1333 Mushkin Silverline RAM Biostar A880G+ Motherboard Western Digital Caviar Blue...