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    the ultimate "do i need a 24pin PSU ?" thread

    All manufactures should be universal, It should work for you. Good luck!
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    the ultimate "do i need a 24pin PSU ?" thread

    you'll need the proper 24 to 20 pin adapter. You can get one for $6.99 @ http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.a...maltake+PSU+Adapter+Cables+Model+A2169 MOBO =ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (Bios V.1013) Nforce 4 vers.6.66 CPU =AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 Dual Core TOLEDO @ 218 mhz...
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    the ultimate "do i need a 24pin PSU ?" thread

    Under heavy SLI gaming conditions my rig would shut down in less than 5 minutes, just as if I pressed the power off button during the game. Now keep in mind these shutdowns were not system crashes or BSOD's, because there were 0 errors in the event logs. When I built both my rigs I did lots of...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Ok I installed the 6.53 NFORCE drivers right over the 6.39 drivers with no probs. Note* I had huge probs when I selected the the Nvidia IDE drivers with the gigabyte board. I cant really explain why but there was an issue with data rate modes and all hard drives on IDE would revert to PIO mode...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    The stix i used were tracer ram w/leds. Heat was never an issue just the spacing. It looked really stupid and stressed the ports. If worst comes to worst just use 2 stix=problem solved no performance gain or loss. If you are anything like myself you wont have the knack for waiting any longer...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Note* The posts that I referred to were the direct result of just one idiot whom, in my opinion was just tryin to kill a board not just a Gigabyte but any board. As far as I know there hasnt been any real problems in the mosfet area. I wouldnt trade my Gigabyte for an Asus for many reasons...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Unfortunately this seems to be the only real setback for this board. When i installed all 4 512 stix it was just too tight so i pulled 2 of them. I've since obtained an ASUS SLI Board and the mem spacing is a lot more accomadating. Thats not to say it's a better board by no means. I still use...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Your friends prob. is quite simple really, he needs to first make an nvidia SATA storage controller floppy from the packaged cd with a working pc. (states in the manual) Then set to boot from (CRITICAL) an ide optical drive, as the os begins to install press F6 and load the drivers from the...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Anytime weshuang, you'll really like that board. SIL, you wont see in device mngr. if you dont have the drivers loaded or if you have SIL disabled in bios. I prefer to just disable SIL, Really of no use unless you have a bunch of SATA HDD's.
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Yes anything to help. After your OS has been installed, hook up your sata drive to the NVIDIA SATA(Yellow)ports. Open Bios, disable RAID on the ports you select, reboot and install the latest Nforce 4 stand alone drivers from the Nvidia driver dl site, Note* When asked to install Nvidia IDE...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Here is a lil secret i found. If you install NFORCE chipset drivers DO NOT!!!!!! install the Nvidia IDE drivers. Huge conflicts with data transfer rates. Blue screen (Machine Exception) when transfer rates are reduced by the Nvidia IDE drivers. MOBO Gigabyte Ga-K8NXP-SLI...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    There is no mosfet prob. That guy just burned up his board(user abuse)thats all. I've had the same board since the release in Dec. and i have not had prob. 1.
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    Still the best SLI board on the market.
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    PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

    Wrong!!!!!!!!!! Putting it on SIL wil cause you perfomance loss due to the data has to travel the PCI bus. On the Nvidia ports it operate straight off the chip no PCI bus involved. Hence better, faster data transfer.