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Buyers Remorse? PSU Question!

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JMWarren

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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
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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