Turns out it was a stupid mistake of mine....
The system did start...
It's been a few days since I'm gaming heavily (COD4) every night without troubles....
A lot of people have told me that a total of 18A (216W) won't be near enough to power the system....
but the figures are showing a different story.
The 3800+ (Venice Core) is annouced at 89W...but real world test show that under stress, the power consumption is around 30W (this cpu is veru efficient)
as for the CG...from Xbit labs, under load the card is sucking around 80-90W.
I have one HD...that should be around 10W...
so we are at a total of: 130W underload....
that leave 80W for the motherboard and keyboard mouse and fans....which should be enough....
There is the efficiency of the PSU to take into account, I think though...
So far I haven't seen any signs of weakness...I have some issues when certain games, when the card refuse to work at its fullest (GPU usage wont go to 100%) but it seems to be driver-related, as if I change the driver version (from 8.2 to 7.12), the GPU work at its fullest....which show I think it's not a PSU issue.
I just wanted to share that with you guys...(and maybe you will point something wrong in my argument, and my PSU will burn soon
)...because not all of us have a lot of money...when I sell out 200 euros for a card and then I realize I need to spend even more to get it to work, it's embarrassing, especially if that wasn't that necessary....