Tagan 480W PSU

SidewinderINC · 29 Nov 2006 at 19:08

Hi all, havent made a thread here in a while

i'm making an upgrade in january time, and am hoping to use the HDD, Optical drives and a few other bits and bobs from my current system.

the question i have is can i keep my current PSU?

which leads me to, is the Tagan 480W PSU ( http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-000-TG ) currently available the same model as the one that was sold waaay back when the NFII Ultra boards were most popular?

and if so will it be able to handle something along the lines of

Overclocked E6300
DS4
Overclocked 2Gb 6400 ram
Ati X1950XT (not sure on what graphics i'm getting yet so subject to change)
single 320GB hard drive
Single DVD/RW

thanks guys

Matt

semi-pro waster · 29 Nov 2006 at 19:13

If it was sold back in the days of Nforce 2 motherboards then it is almost certainly one of the original ATX 1.3 (?) compliant models so you will need a 20-24pin adapter for the motherboard and a molex-PCI-E adapter for the graphics card at the very least.

If the rails are stable then it should still be ok depending partly on how far you want to overclock but you do have to remember that PSUs become less efficient over time.

SidewinderINC · 29 Nov 2006 at 19:14

its got a 24pin adapter to take it down to the 20pin that my current board has, so i guess i just need to take the adapter off for that one

and it also has the 4pin connector and an unused 8pin connector

if that helps?

semi-pro waster · 29 Nov 2006 at 19:29

Did you get it replaced relatively recently? As there were some Tagans that went boom and I'm surprised if it is ATX 2.0 compliant, the standard was merely a glint in the eye of some tech person when Nforce 2 motherboards were at their height. The PSU certainly sounds like it is ATX 2.0 compliant though or at least partially, the only other thing to check is if it has a PCI-E connector (normally a black block of connectors 2x3), if it does then you have no problems, if not then you should get the molex-PCI-E adapter with the graphics card.

SidewinderINC · 29 Nov 2006 at 19:36

i know it doesnt have PCI-e connectors, but it definately has the 24pin motherboard connector and a 4pin and 8 pin connector for the motherboard.

it only has a single 12V rail (supplies 28A)

EDIT - didnt read the description on the website fully, it obviously is a different revision as the one on sale currently has pci-e connectors

they should have used a better naming convention as it has the exact same model number.