thanks fellas for all the info and advice. I am going to check them out for sure. Humble, you were talking about the PS, I don't know much about them and used the online power calculater at Newegg, it recomended 450 watts, I will take another look at that.
This is the power supply I think you have...
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=37&pPath=157&productID=157If so it has no 24 pin connector for MB and no PCI-e 6 pin 12V connector either. So if your 8800 needs an additional 6 pin 12V conection your out of luck. The 34@ on the 12V rail should be plenty but I'd have to double check based on how much the 8800 actually draws...the 12V rail can draw up to 408W's so if the card has alot of draw and you choose a CPU that draws 125W+ underload then your in trouble since I dont see any indication that the 500W is continuous power and not a more phoney "peak power" rating. what makes this worse is the fac that if you add it up the card "offers" 650W across all rails...if it had 500Ws of continous power this would be "OK" but you might have a PS that has 500W peak and only 450 or so continous.
Any CPU drawing more then 92Ws is technically under powered on the 3.3V rail I think (anyone who knows for sure clarify or correct me) further if you can draw the 125W that I read on toms some of these draw at peak then you only have 375Ws total...just take out another 25Ws to run everything else and you 've got 350W for the 12V rail which is just under 30@'s...but if you only produce 450 continous watts then you only have 300W's fro the 12V rail which is 25@'s which I think is under minimum recommendation for the 8800 series. So you have a PS that might cause issues with many of the CPU's (the 8400 only draws about 65W's however) and the VC you have.
Its not about "watts" its all about amps on the required rail. Multiply the volts X @'s to get the watts on each rail and look for continious power ratings. A good 500W continious power PS is often better then some "phoney math" 650 or 700W PS's...
