Quote Originally Posted by Seanie's Show View Post
There is a PSU calculator here, which will give you a rough idea of the wattage of PSU you should look into getting, to be safe I would recommend getting something slightly higher than what it recommends, just to compensate as it a little out of date, especially with higher drawing GFX cards now-a-days:

http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/
Thanks for the link, I filled it out and even overestimated some items. It reported a recommend psu of 434 w (that's for 20% capacitor aging). So hopefully a replacement 600 w GameXStream should be okay?

Lucky for me I am picking up a new PSU from OCZ today, and NCIX is shipping me a new P5Q-E for free. Ground shipping though so it'll take a few days to get here... but in the mean time I could try plugging in the new psu into the burnt out 4-pin cpu plug and see if it posts or not. But it sounds like a bit of a risky experiment don't you think? I just picture those pins being fried and trying to plug power into it causing smoke and fire!