Buyers Remorse? PSU Question!

[JMWarren]

Hey Guys

I picked up an Antech TruePower 550 today to replace my old, shitty, 450 generic. I plan to use it in my old system until I build a new rig in the summer. I'm kinda worried now that it's only a 20pin PSU. Is this a big deal? I've read the stickied thread and am still on the fence.

Mike

 

[ribbon13]

Not really. It puts out decent power. It may limit overclocking ability. Or so I've heard. Adapters are available, or you just match pin1 to pin1

 

[diabloII]

a truepower550 is pretty expensive, you could have gotten a good 24pin psu with that money

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I wouldn't call it a bad buy. You probably could have done a little better, but Antec is a solid brand and I think the whole 20 or 24 pin thing is being blown out of proportion by some people.

 

[JMWarren]

I kinda feel the same way. My new rig will probably not have a high end graphics card on it. It will however have an OC'd AMD AXP64, a couple of gigs of ram, a couple of raptors, a couple of EIDE drives and a couple of optical drives. It won't be for games but photo editing.

As i understand it the extra 4 pins are for the pci-e video cards.

Mike

 

[golgotha]

You bought a good power supply, don't worry about it.

 

[JMWarren]

The only thing i'm really concerned about is not having PCI-e power connectors.

Its really the first part in a slow build and i just don't want to end up replacing it becasue its incompatible with a MB or Graphics card.

Mike

 

[Nocturnal]

I bought one and installed it into my AMD 64 system and it's fine. It works like a champ.

 

[Amaroque]

I can tell you from experience that the Antec True550 is a nice PSU. It should work fine, but if you just bought it, you might want to exchange it for a TP-II 550. It has the 24 pin, and PCIe connectors.

 

[Chaotic42]

Be careful with it. Mine toasted my system. It may not have been powerful enough for the computer.