ASUS A8N SLI SE

Mlingard · 13 May 2006 at 18:25

Hi all i have a few questions for you , my mate has decided to change mobo so he is selling this board to me what i want to know is do i need to change my psu i have a older enermax 550w one or will this mobo run with a 20pin atx connector ??? would i be better off with a 7900 or x1800 gfx card or would 2 6800gt's in SLI mode be better ??? + any other hints and tips i would be appreciate .

Thanks mick

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Artheas · 13 May 2006 at 21:56

Mlingard said:
Hi all i have a few questions for you , my mate has decided to change mobo so he is selling this board to me what i want to know is do i need to change my psu i have a older enermax 550w one or will this mobo run with a 20pin atx connector ??? would i be better off with a 7900 or x1800 gfx card or would 2 6800gt's in SLI mode be better ??? + any other hints and tips i would be appreciate .

Thanks mick .

The mobo needs a 24pin connector i think, an adaptor only costs a few pound.
I'd recommend getting one of the 7900GTs on offer this week and overclock it.
I'd also get a chipset cooler as many ppl find the stock chipset cooler 'whiny'. Although mine was pretty much drowned out by my vf900 , i changed it anyway.

Mlingard · 14 May 2006 at 07:16

thanks for the reply , i might just buy some adaptor's for now and get a new psu when i can afford it .

thanks mick .

Phemo · 14 May 2006 at 07:39

I have an A8N SLi Premium with the old 20 pin Enermax 550 watt PSU that I bought about 3 or 4 years ago. It works perfectly, even loaded with all the hardware in my sig, so it does not require a 24 pin adapter unless the SE is different - which I very much doubt.

Mlingard · 14 May 2006 at 09:42

Phemo said:
I have an A8N SLi Premium with the old 20 pin Enermax 550 watt PSU that I bought about 3 or 4 years ago. It works perfectly, even loaded with all the hardware in my sig, so it does not require a 24 pin adapter unless the SE is different - which I very much doubt.

You probably have the same psu as me then , so you have 4 pins that are not being used then ?

Phemo · 14 May 2006 at 11:53

Mlingard said:
You probably have the same psu as me then , so you have 4 pins that are not being used then ?

That's right, 4 pins of my motherboard's ATX connector aren't connected to anything

Mlingard · 14 May 2006 at 11:58

How well does it overclock ?? i heard it was pretty good but not as good as the dfi boards . what the max htt you can run at ??

Phemo · 14 May 2006 at 12:03

I've got mine at 285x9.5 at the moment to give a little over 2.7GHz - been a while since I played with it but I'm fairly certain it would go higher

Mlingard · 14 May 2006 at 12:13

I will be using my crappy newcastle core 3500 until i can afford a new cpu i need a pci express gfx card and was looking at the x1800xt on ocuk 170 notes cant really spend anymore .