Ever-Power brand PSU

Hi.
I'm using a 300W PSU produced by Ever Power. Although I'm perfectly aware that it's just one of those low quality & dirt cheap PSU's, I'd like to know if other people are using some of those, and if they had any good or bad experiences related to this PSU. The PSU has 30A on 5V and 14A on 3.3V, combined 131W. Do you think that I could install a GF4 Ti 4200 without any power related problems ? My config is as below:
MSI KT3 Ultra (non ARU)
Athlon XP 1800+  (oc'd 148 x 11.5 = 1702 MHz)
Leadtek GF3 Ti200 (230/530)
Quantum Fireball Plus LM 20GB
LG 52 CD ROM drive
LG 4x4x24 rewriter
Sb Live! Value
Winmodem, unknown brand
1.44 Floppy drive
Thanks for reading.
PS: It seems I miscalculated the combined power, I had to edit the post.

Wonkanoby is right. The AGP cards pull from the 3.3v( 5.v also but don't quote me on it as I don't build AGP cards :D   ). First off, 14amps on the 3.3v is too low for the CPU even. I wouldn't run anything less than 20amps on the 3.3v as the CPU only pulls from this source. If you add the new geforce4 ti cards into the system, then you should have 28amps minimum on the 3.3v.
 Most good power supplies are 36+amps on the 5v and 28+amps on the 3.3v --- (5v*36a) + (3.3v*28a) = 270+watts combined. I'm running 290watts combined on my Antec 400watt PS. The Antec 330watt TRUE POWER retails for about $69 on your local store ( less on newegg.com ) and does 270watt combined. Here is an example of a crap power supply sold under the compusa brand name. The 500watt PS is 5v@50a, 3.3v@14 = 296watts combined but is not enough to power a socket A T-bird or XP chip let alone a GF4 ti card. If you look at AMD's listing of AMD certified power supplies, you'll see each model has at least 20amps on the 3.3v. Conclusion: cheap power supplies acheive high total watts by increasing the 5v and/or 12v to rediculess values which are not needed as much  - especially the 12v.
FYI -   The 1800+ XP CPU requires 68+watts under a max load. I think http://www.tomshardware.com and amd.com still have a listing of the watts each CPU needs under max load.

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