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Been a while since I've had any trouble with my PC. But thats a good thing, right?

Anyways, today I purchased an 8800GTS. My olg 6600GT wasnt cutting it anymore.

A friend of mine told me that I should be worried about supplying the power to it, its quite a power hog.

I'm wondering if I have enough. I have an Enermax Liberty 500w PSU, running with an AMD 3800X2, 2 hard drives, a DVD CD ROM combo drive, a Hauppauge WinTV tuner, and 5 case fans. I'm using the onboard 7.1 sound.

The card having its own power cord directly to the PSU seems like it shouldnt have a problem for power. I also read that the GTS needs atleast 24 amps through the 12v rail, my PSU is supposed to be putting out 32 amps at max.

Should I be alright, or will I want to upgrade my PSU again?

I have the 88000GTX, and has 2 PCI-e connectors. XFX recommends that each one of them has a separate-not split- cconnection, and a minimum of 600w PSU. I think that 500w is a bit low for this card

Well, mine is a GTS. They only have one power input, and also has an exclusive PCI-e power plug on my Liberty Modual PSU. So the connection isnt split.

I was searching around earlier, and I found a guy on another forum who had the same question. There was a member there who has been running an eVGA 8800GTS since they came out, on the same power supply I have now. So that tells me that it will run fine, just not to its highest potential. But even then, the rest of my system is bottlenecking it as well I'm sure. My Motherboard is beyond out of date, and I only have a gig of memory, which seems to be the bare minimum for games now.