ASUS A8N-E

[John Straumann]

Hi all:

I am building my first AMD machine and have an ASUS A8N-E MOBO and an Athlon
processor. I have heard the Asus board is very finicky about power and I
have an Antec SL400 supply. Does anyone know if this supply will be good for
this board? In the board docs it says "ATX Power supply (with 24-pin and
4-pin 12 V plugs); ATX 12V 2.0 compliant".

On the PS box it says 400 WATT ATX12V v1.3 however I am not sure if that
v1.3 matters or not.


Any and help is appreciated!

John.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Get the manual for the power supply here:

http://www.antec.com/us/support_productInfo_details.php?ProdID=25400#

It uses the older 20 pin ATX power connector rather than the 24 pin ATX 2
one.

I believe that a 20 pin ATX connector can be plugged into a 24 pin socket,
but I have not tried it personally.

You may find the following article interesting:

http://www.bleedinedge.com/guides/psu_select/psu_select_01.html

The article gives good detail. It also suggests that you might want a power
supply that makes more +12V current than your SL400, depending on your
choice of CPU and graphics card.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[John Saunders]

I have a 380W Antec PSU (the one included in a Sonata)
powering this board with a 3000+, 2 HDD, 6600GT, DVB-T
card, analogue TV card and SCSI card. It is working fine.

The 20 pin ATX plug will go right in, no need for an
adapter cable even. The extra 4 pins just give some
extra power if you have maybe dual core CPU and SLI
6800 Ultras. Not really necessary for the A8N-E.