Hey guys, I was hopeing someone could advice me... To sum up, I WAS in the middle of saveing to build my own custom super computer... but my father gave me 1700.00 gift card to circuit city. 
I told him not to. But in the moment I thought it would be rude to remind him.
Anyways, I went ahead and purchased a HP's q6600 quad core intel Buy the HP Pavilion Elite M9150F Desktop PC and other Desktop computers at circuitcity.com
Anyways, I had them put another gig of ram in it, to make of total of 4gigs. Then I saw that there is only a 350watt powersupply in it, when the tech at the circuit opened the case to install the ram. I called hp technical support, later that night, to find out physical dimensions of the slot where the power supply fits, so that I could upgrade it (They, because if i do it, it voids my warrany). In doing so the lady that was helping me read that the max Output was 460watt. THIS WAS NOT ON any documentation durring the purchase of the computer. Am I correct in thinking that this will not cut it when and if I can upgrade its Geforce 8500 to a better gamer video card..8800 ect. Hp Tech did say I could put a 500wat in it but its at my own risk. Should I take it? might aswell put a 610watt in that case? How do I figure out the max powersupply I can use? is the max output of 460watt that HP tech read me carved in stone? I can't tell you the mother board brand in the thing, because its just identified by a bunch of code/numbers, and you know HP wont tell me. I might see if I can return it for cash, but I dought they will.
please advise! will a 460watt cut it for gameing? or take the chance and put a 500-610watt in it.
Thank Swann
I told him not to. But in the moment I thought it would be rude to remind him. Anyways, I went ahead and purchased a HP's q6600 quad core intel Buy the HP Pavilion Elite M9150F Desktop PC and other Desktop computers at circuitcity.com
Anyways, I had them put another gig of ram in it, to make of total of 4gigs. Then I saw that there is only a 350watt powersupply in it, when the tech at the circuit opened the case to install the ram. I called hp technical support, later that night, to find out physical dimensions of the slot where the power supply fits, so that I could upgrade it (They, because if i do it, it voids my warrany). In doing so the lady that was helping me read that the max Output was 460watt. THIS WAS NOT ON any documentation durring the purchase of the computer. Am I correct in thinking that this will not cut it when and if I can upgrade its Geforce 8500 to a better gamer video card..8800 ect. Hp Tech did say I could put a 500wat in it but its at my own risk. Should I take it? might aswell put a 610watt in that case? How do I figure out the max powersupply I can use? is the max output of 460watt that HP tech read me carved in stone? I can't tell you the mother board brand in the thing, because its just identified by a bunch of code/numbers, and you know HP wont tell me. I might see if I can return it for cash, but I dought they will.
please advise! will a 460watt cut it for gameing? or take the chance and put a 500-610watt in it.
Thank Swann
