I found information at Best Buy's website and it says that you need a 400w or greater power supply. So this Asus should work. I also compared it to a less expensive card XFX ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB DDR@ PCI express card. What do you think of the Radeon card? It's $45 less expensive. I have used Newegg for reviews and have bought from them before. Actually just bought my new printer from them. No tax or shipping on the printer. Yeah, I have to buy a complete system, not confident to put one together on my own. I do like to upgrade, but not start from scratch. Diane On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I went to: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=NVIDIA+Geforce+9800+GTX+ > > and looked at the power requirements for the cards listed. Two did not > say, one said 450w, another said 500w. > > Newegg.com is a good place to go to find specs and reader opinions quickly. > > Newegg and other places offer "combo deals" and "bare-bones kits." They > compete better with the mass-marketers on price, and, > hopefully, the system pieces will work together. But, if you aren't > comfortable building your own, you probably shouldn't. It is > always scary that you'll mess something up or that it won't work. It is > fun, though. > > Dean Kukral > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Diane > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:10 PM > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video Graphics Cards > > > Dean, > > I plan to pick their brains at Best Buy. > > I don't know enough to build my own computer. I don't understand how you > came up with $750 combo deal. And what kind of warranty do you have if you > build it yourself. > > I'm having trouble finding the system requirements for the graphics card. > > I don't plan to run the computer from an external drive. I would use the > external for backing up. Looks like I can put another HD inside. > > Diane Kroeckel > > <snip> > > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download > visit our download web page at: > http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml