Gotta chose between those 24pin by tomorrow:

[ScYcS]

FORTRON SOURCE 460W Power Supply, Model "FSP460-60PFN-S"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-932&depa=0

Cooler Master Real Power 120mm fan 450W Power Supply With Active PFC, Model "RS-450-ACLY"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-171-001&depa=0

Sky Hawk520W PSU with Smart Cable Management, Model "ATX-GM520SC"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-193-004&depa=0

E-POWER "Tagan" Series 480W Power Supply, Model "TG-480"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-101-509&depa=0

OCZ ModStream 450W Power Supply with OCZ EZMod technology, SATA Connector
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-154&depa=0

ENERMAX Noisetaker 485W Power Supply, Support LGA 775, Model "EG495P-VE SFMA 2.0 Version"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-457&depa=0


Please don't suggest any others since these are my only choices at this point.
Which one of the above will do well in a nForce4 setup. I heard a 24pin connector is needed for these boards.

[Ice Czar]

OCZ


exceeds spec for load regulation and is rated at 40C

but personally Id get a powerstream over a modstream
those modular cables look sweet but they do add resistance
nothing to sweat on the +12V but not trivial on the +3.3V either

[ScYcS]

What about the Enermax from the list? I could get that one far below the usual price...

<edit> i could also get the Antec Neo Power 480 relatively cheap. Is that one comparable to the above models? Or not recommended?

[Ice Czar]

ther Enermax are strong supplies of basic spec compliance
they are rated at a lower temperature than the OCZ however
so your not necessarilly comparing apples to apples
the Antec exceeds spec in load regulation at 3%
was just slightly edged out by the Modstream in how tight it maintained the rails
possibly within the margin of error for the tests

but again Id perfer a fixed cable

of course we are just talking supplies in a comparitive sense
not what would be applicable for your planned config or upgrade path
I can think of several senerios where the useful lifespan of many of those could be rather short

[DooLocsta]

I built my NForce4 setup a little more than a month ago and decided to go witht he OCZ becuase of its rating and the fact that it has the modular cable design. I am currently running my computer at 2350(damn MSI bios problem) with a 6600GT, 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives, digital EQ, 4 80 mm fans, xp90 with 92 mm fan, and the OCZ 12v rail is sitting pretty at 12.71 which makes me happy. My only problem with the ocz is that you have to be creative witht he molex connectors becuase it doesn't come with that many other than that I love it and it looks really really good under UV CCs.

[ScYcS]

Thanks. Learned a lot and decided on one after reading several reviews.

[Astral Abyss]

Soooo, which one? :p

[Ice Czar]

Thanks. Learned a lot and decided on one after reading several reviews.

I can think of three maybe four people capable of doing a PSU review
the rest are merely cheerleading squads with little to no understanding of the spec much less how to test a supply's compliance to it.

a camera and DMM do not a PSU review make

[ScYcS]

I read the silentpcreview.com reviews and settled for a EG495AX-VE SFMA 2.0

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-458&depa=0

[Ice Czar]

;) Mike Chin is one of the three

Lee Garbutt (http://www.leesspace.com/Published_reviews.htm) & Oleg Artamonov (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/psu-methodology.html) being the other two

past that I judge reviews on a case by case

[Kain]

and the OCZ 12v rail is sitting pretty at 12.71 which makes me happy.

Umm. 12.71? I hope you meant 11.71 because 12.71 is way out of spec.