Having bad luck with new PSUs again

Hi,
I just recently bought an Antec 430w truepower PSU to replace my old Qtec "550W" psu since the Antec 430 w has greater max currents as I am going to upgrade my video card and add an extra HDD.
When I try to run CPU-intensive programs, my system eventually halts with the Antec power supply installed, with the Qtec, everything ran fine. This is running a program I made that utilises the video card (open GL application) whilst running winamp.
My system is:
MSI K7N2 Motherboard
Ahtlon AMD 2600+ 333 FSB
512 MB DDR 3200 (400 Mhz)
1 HDD
2 CD/CDRW drives
also:
Geforce 3 ti 200
Soundblaster Live soundcard
onboard network
floppy
Antec truepower 430W or Qtec "550W" dual fan gold.
I took results using MSI PC Alert before hand from the Qtec power supply and when I got the Antec I took similar results. The results are for the CPU vCore, 3.3v, +5v & +12v rails.
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Qtec:
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QTEC 550 vcore 3.3 +5 +12
idle 1.63+/-0.02 3.37+/-0.04 5.12+/-0.01 12.03 +/- 0.03
active 1.62 to 1.65 3.33 5.13 12.00
Qtec proved stronger than Antec...
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ANTEC 430 TruePower (case open)
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ANTEC 430 TP vcore 3.3 +5 +12
idle 1.67+/-0.03 3.29+/-0.03 4.97+/-0.01 11.94 +/- 0.0
active ----------------- SYSTEM HALT -----------------------
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MAX AMPS
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Q-Tec 550W Antec 430W TP
3.3 20 28
+5 35 36
+12 14 20
This can prove that either my Antec powersupply I received is not doing the business (430 W) and is not as good as Qtec "550 W", Why? I don't know if I should take it back and get a replacement since it boots up my machine fine, just the rails are very weak for the Antec which is supposed to prove stronger than the QTec.
What should I do if I want to add new peripherals to the system? Going back to the old Qtec 550 will work for me :P

alright 12v pin in, didnt do any good, probably made it worse.. my screen jittered upon startup which was the sign of the power going bad (which was happening before the system halt before). Replaced it back with my beloved old Qtec everything working fine and back to normal.
I may note that while taking both results the 12v pin was not used.
The antec would not give enough power somewhere resulting in a halt, probably to the video card or something. I'll stick with my Q-tec for now and install this video card and see what happens, I've removed one CD drive (which wasnt working anyway) lets hope that can compensate for the extra current needed?
The new video card is the MSI 59000xt Vtd-128 Btw

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