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To put milleron's speel another way.
Why spend $x,000 on a great system then make it suffer with an inferior PSU?
SLI rigs can use a lot of juice and if you read the review you will see that
this is a fact and that instability can arise if you under budget or get a
cheapo PSU.
Trust the reviews when they correlate. Do *not* trust manufacturers specs.
They fib.
- Tim
"milleron" <millerdot90@SPAMlessosu.edu> wrote in message
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> On 11 Jul 2005 16:41:27 -0700, "SleepyDragon"
> <sleepydragon@excite.com> wrote:
>
>>Im about to buy this motherboard and its about to be the first AMD
>>based system I've bought. I was wondering if I had to do anything or
>>buy any special power supply. I've read someplaces that you had to buy
>>an adapter for the mainboard power connection. What should I look for
>>in the power supply specs? Thanks
>
> Here's the URL for a thread on building A8N-SLI systems.
>
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/38623/?o=0
> It gives a list of PSUs that other users have had good luck with. The
> very best one appears to be the PC Power & Cooling 510, but expect to
> pay more for it than your mainboard costs. The list's not
> all-inclusive; Seasonic makes some superb models that are powerful
> enough to run SLI setups and are still very efficient (80% range) and
> very quiet. I'm partial to the Antec TruePower II 550. It's plenty
> powerful enough, meets the ATX 2.0x specs, is nice and quiet, can
> control case fans according to the temp of case air, and can still be
> had for less than $90 at newegg.
> You really need to get a PSU with ATX 2.0 specs. IF you're going to
> actually run two PCI-e cards in SLI mode, then be sure to look for a
> PSU that already has TWO 6-pin PCI-e connectors. Any PSU that has the
> PCI-e connectors will have SATA power connectors. If it's ATX
> 2-compliant, then it will have the 24-pin power connector and the
> 4-pin 12V connector you need for the A8N-SLI Deluxe. You could get a
> PSU with a 20-pin power plug and buy an adapter, but why not just get
> the right PSU in the first place?
>
> It's always been said that the PSU is a foolish place to cut corners
> in system building. That's especially true with the SLI mainboards.
>
> Ron