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New Rig + Antec True Blue?

  • 01-09-2005 11:59am
    #1
    gizmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭


    Ok folks apoligies for the stupid question but here goes...

    I've recently built my new rig, specs are below...However due to either incompetence or a dodgy PSU my OCZ Powerstream 520W went kaput upon switching it on. Only problem is I now have a LAN this weekend and my replacement isnt going to be here on time. A mate has offered me his Antec True Blue 480W PSU for the event but I'm not sure of a couple of things.

    It doesnt have any SATA connectors, so are there converters that one can use to get around this?

    It doesnt have one of new PCI-E plugs, so how can i power my 7800GTX?

    Will it be enough to power the system?


    System Specs:

    AMD FX-53 w/ Zalman 7000B AL-CU LED
    ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe
    1 GB OCZ Gold Edition PC4000 RAM
    XFX GeForce 7800GTX
    Creative Audigy 2 ZS
    Western Digital 74GB Raptor
    Western Digital 250GB SATA


Comments

  • #2
    gizmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    Hrm, anyone at all? :confused:


  • #3
    Jammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Jammer


    should be enough.

    Connectors should have come with the gfc card and motherboard.

    What lan is it?

    If darkside, i have a Molex -> PCI-E adapter which u can borrow.

    Might have SATA -> Molex too, ill have to check.


  • #4
    duridian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    Being an Antec I'd also say it should be able to give enough juice, but you should not attempt to use the 7800 without a proper auxilliary power connector as it is bad for the card (did the card not come with one in the box to adapt 2 molex plugs to 1 Pci-e power plug??)
    I am kind of curious about your cpu/mobo. I thought the FX53 was a 940pin cpu, (thought the first FX to get 939 pins was FX55) and the A8N-Sli a Socket 939 board. If you have the box of the A8N-Sli then you will have a few molex to SATA power adaptors(a buddy of mine has the same board). The WD Raptor might not need a SATA power plug, the ones I have got have both types of power plug(newer models might have only the SATA power connection, mine are a year old). NB Important, if your Raptor has both types, either use the SATA power connection or the molex connection on the Raptor. DO NOT USE BOTH TYPES AT ONCE OR IT'S BYE BYE RAPTOR.
    Hope something I said helps.


  • #5
    gizmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    Well got my replacement OCZ this morning so disaster averted. :D

    Thanks for the info though, nice to clear those things up. Wasn't 100% about the PCI-E connector situation, definitly didnt know you could have 2 molex -> 1 PCI-E. But no, don't think the 7800GTX came with one of the converters.

    The FX-53 is indeed a 939pin but they did indeed release a 940pin version also.

    Didn't notice the molex to SATA connectors in the ASUS box though, everything was retail bar the HDDs so the only thing I'm short of now is thumbscrews. :(

    Oh and advice noted on the Raptor, didn't even look for the molex, went straight for the SATA connections...

    The LAN is the DCU Games Soc one, just bad timing on our part having it on the same weekend as Darkside! :D


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