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Old PSU and nForce4

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MrMitch

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I'm well on my way to getting my A64 together, the system will be based on a Athlon 3500+ winnie, Asus or MSI nforce4 board and a single 6600gt for the time being. as much i want to get more i can only afford so much at a time. Right now i have a enermax noisetaker 420w. Its not atx 2.0, but i read you can use 20 pin psu's on 24 pin boards. Would it work? It temporary, i'd go to a antec or ocz atx 2.0 before i went SLI, but ii'm hoping it'd get me by. 1 hdd and 2 cdroms, nothing major there. Thanks for any input.
 
even as a temporary solution Id still use a 24 pin to 20 pin adapter

(will split the output of one of each of the main rails and a ground via a single wire of each, to the four extra pins, the extra load on a wire a better tradeoff than abusing the mobos VRM by simply not supplying any power where its expected, though it might be within its operation capabilities, pushing the amps output by those 3 wires (+ground) is less of a concern)

and only if there are actually the amps available to power the config
which youd be able to figure out by refering to the How to Buy a PSU sticky thread

as a long term solution I wouldnt recommend the adapters, there really arent all that many supplies with the extra amps, if you need a 24 pin main power connector its also likely you need a new supply, but without actually running the numbers its all guesswork
 
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