resolution..refresh rate windows 7 ultimate

it said 393 min and 443 recommended
didn't bother putting the cooling system because it wasnt listed

thats a very cool site!

OK, did a revisit of that site (much more accurate than the New Egg site Calculator ..they sell PSU's) and here are both our results and unless your daughters PC has something in it drawing heaps of power besides an average CPU, you must have entered some wrong information into the PSU calculator.
If you truly want to, let me know the PC's actual hardware and I'll re-check it for you.

So, here we go with the results from my site visit.

My system's power needs at 90% load:

AMD Athlon 2.7MGz CPU {replaced a 2.4GHz CPU a few days ago), a power hungry 9800GT Radeon HD 9 series card
6 fans total, 2 DVD optical drives and a special CPU and V/card cooler.
1x7200rpm HD
2 sticks of RAM.

I have a 550w PSU which is far more power than I need (a bit of future proofing).
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Min. 262w
Recommended: 312w
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Your system at 90% load and I'm probably overstating your daughters system's hardware and chose a card which is a series up from the one you bought. A hypothetical system that a $50 card might go into.


Radeon HD 4 series card.
!xHD 7200rpm.
CPU: AMD64 Athlon 2.4MHz (draws a lot more current than modern CPu's)
4 fans
2 DVD optical drives
2 sticks of RAM.

Results:
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Minimum PSU power 220w
Recommended 270w
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There you go. Case closed

Cheers,
Lee.

thank you..below are the actual specs..PS i redid it..LOL i was putting 20 hd! anyhow i did it w the specs from below..chose the first water cooler in the list and put 2 of them, 3 usb's, a sound blaster (all models) and i doubles the OC Vcore because i didnt know what to put.nd it came out to….231 watts!! oh..btw..this is my pc, not my daughters, not that it amtters but i dont know where that came from.. intel pentium d 805 its a dual core (overclocked to 3.46 this is how i got it from ebay and after lots of reading it seems that thats one of the great thinggs about this chip..the oc'ing and its stability) Memory (RAM): 2 GB (ddr2 pc2-6400) ASUSTeK motherboard Model P5WD2-E Premium SH-S203 SATA DVD burner Nautilus 500 Water cooler 400GB SATA Deskstar 7200 rpm hard drive Floppy Drive

Well there you go, my wattage guess was only a little out.. You certainly won't have to buy a new PSU. A waste of money!

hey lee!! i ended up getting that 4670 card, had to go to another source because newegg didnt have it anymore, ended up paying only $48 with shipping. do you have another link, the one you psted for seems to be down? you said "best to use nothing off the disc" what should do then? dont i need the stuff on the disc? thank you in advance

OK. if that site is down install the driver 'ONLY' from the disk! You can upgrade it later if need be. Cheers, Lee