advice on upgrade please...

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wrxed02

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I'm getting ready to upgrade and i think i have just about everything picked out. My main question concern is with power supplies. Here is what i'm looking at:

asus a8n-sli premium
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122207 <--this video card
AMD64 3200+ venice

The PSU i have is only a 20 pin connector and i don't know if it has an SLI connector. My question is this, do i need to buy a PSU that has an SLI connector if i'm not using it in SLI mode. I've been looking around all morning and i don't know if i am just retarded or what but i can't seem to find a straight answer. Sorry if this is common knowledge but even reading through the PSU forum etc i can't figure out if i will be ok or if i will need a new PSU. Thank you very much!!
 
What PSU are you using? You might as well get a 24-pin PSU, as your PSU is likely not going to be enough to power a dual GPU system anyway.
 
well i have two, i just got a new aspire case with all the fancy glowing sheaths around the wires and i also have an antec true power 430 so i could theoretically use either. Sorry about forgetting that, i realize that would probably be a pretty important part of my question :)
 
Well, if your not going to use SLi Mode EVER then you won't need the SLi mobo or SLi approved PSU. However if you will be going SLi in the future you might want to check out these:

DontRemember said:
1. Pc Power and Cooling 850 SSI
2. Pc Power and cooling 510 Deluxe SLI edition
3.. Zippy/Emacs 550-700w models
4.. OCZ 600w (personally I would never put this in my system but it has been proven @ xtremesystems to handle SLI rigs, so I'll be fair...)
5. OCZ 520w
6. Possibly a 600w Silenx iExtrema, but since it would be in SLI the fan would spin up all the time, and because it is geared for the silent crowd, you probably wouldn't like that very much. Silent and SLI is difficult to achieve.
7. Enermax 600w+ noisetakers
8. Seasonic S12 series (550w+)
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I reccomend either a Antec 550w, Enermax 550w (both ~$125), Seasonic S12 500w (~$120 as well), or a Seasonic S12 600 (~$160)
 
thanks for the replies. I'm really not sure if i'll every go sli but if i decide to change my mobo, what is a good non-sli, pci-e mobo that has most if not all of the same features as the asus. I won't be overclocking so stability would be ideally what i'm looking for. Thanks again!!

edit: also, how do you tell if the mobo has a 24 pin connector or a 20 pin connector??
 
That's easy. Usually, the motherboard manufacturer has a .pdf file (manual) for the motherboard. So, look at it and count the number of pins on the main connector. :D
There's a drawing of the mobo usually on page 3 or 4, whatever...
 
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