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1267633	2012-04-03 21:34:00	It's likely to crash if it's not getting enough juice. Small risk of data corruption, especially to the files that Window continues to mess with. Greatest risk time is when the GPU is working hard (ie gaming). Probably more a nuisance rather than a threat to your gear... but I'm guessiing a fair bit.	Paul.Cov (425)
1267634	2012-04-03 23:00:00	What's the brand and model of your PSU? if it's a good one the risk is minimal and in fact a decent 500W PSU will run most single GPU setups except very high end cards. On the other hand if it's a cheap generic 500W unit it could die spectacularly if you overload it and potentially take out other components in the process. It's with good reason so many times on this forum you will see people advising against cheap PSU's. If you have a good one, and the calculators say it's high enough, then you are fairly safe. Those calculators tend to be fairly cautious. My Media PC changes configurations a bit, but at it's best had an i5 2500, a GTX460, 4GB RAM, 2 HDD's, Blu-ray drive, all running on a SFF 450W silverstone PSU quite comfortably - which is a lot lower than I myself would normally reccomend for that hardware. The point is if your careful about checking the load and use a quality PSU then you can run quite a lot from 400-500W PSU's	dugimodo (138)
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