A very informative article on power supplies and the 12V rail that a P4 or Athlon Processor is totally dedicated to. Great Article! http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power_supply/page2.asp
That I installed a new Mad Dog NVidia MX-440SE 64 mb DDR "Prowler" PCI card into the PCI slot of my Dell 8300 with no conflicts whatsoever. Windows XP-Pro assigned the card an "open" IRQ and the NVidia NView does all the rest. The "Prowler" even comes with a nice fan on the chipset instead of the usual cheap heatsink that comes with PCI slot graphic cards. There's even a $30.00 rebate that is good until August 2nd,2003 as well, bringing the total cost down to $59.95 www.mdmm.com Thanks to everyone who helped me out on this thread!