Hey chaps, as you may have seen in the Opterons@Scan thread, today I have purchased the following:
AMD Opteron 144
Asus A8N-SLi (standard)
Pixelview 7800GT SLi
Add to that the other peripherals that I'm running:
3x Maxtor DM9+ 120GB IDE
2x512MB Corsair Value PC3200
Sony CDRW
I've been running your regular Abit NF7-S/Athlon XP combo for the last couple of years and added a Thermaltake 480W psu around 15 months ago.
For now I don't plan on running an SLi system, but I do sometime in the future. What I'm wondering is - would this power supply suffice for the above system until I splash out and make the SLi conversion (summer time, most likely)? Or do I need to buy a new psu for the new system?
I've done a search, and I think I understand that the motherboard has a 24-pin connector, but the power supply only has a 20-pin plug. However, it does have the 4-pin connector that the NF7-S required. I'm really sorry if this is a noob question, but this fool completely lost touch with all the latest innovations when the 64-Bit jobs started coming out.
Any info or advice is appreciated