Well crap... I just got the replacement unit. And I didn't want to screw things up by making it too different from what I had, so it's a duplicate 500 W.
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but my old vid card was running directly from the motherboard. The new one is drawing it's power from a 6 point connector straight to the power supply. So (optimistic) with it getting it's needs direct from the PSU, it won't be trying to draw -through- the motherboard and it gets enough power to do what it needs? Versus (pessimistic) it needs enough power to justify the 6 point connector, maybe I -do- need a bigger PSU?
In any case, it seems right now to be running perfectly. Several 10s of hours of gaming in max graphics mode in CoH, Champions, and Team Fortress 2 seems not to be a problem. (Crossing fingers)
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but my old vid card was running directly from the motherboard. The new one is drawing it's power from a 6 point connector straight to the power supply. So (optimistic) with it getting it's needs direct from the PSU, it won't be trying to draw -through- the motherboard and it gets enough power to do what it needs? Versus (pessimistic) it needs enough power to justify the 6 point connector, maybe I -do- need a bigger PSU?
In any case, it seems right now to be running perfectly. Several 10s of hours of gaming in max graphics mode in CoH, Champions, and Team Fortress 2 seems not to be a problem. (Crossing fingers)