Nforce 4 specs asking for ATX v2.0 PSU

[Monkey muppet]

I've tried googling for specs but none can tell me (I think my tireness isn't helping me)

I'm looking at the MSI K8N Neo4 Diamond nForce Sli board but it's asking for a ATX v2.0 compliant PSU.

What is this and do I have it??

It will be put into an Antec Sonata with the true 380w PSU

any advice always welcome

 

[nitro28]

those are newer power supplys that generally have a pci-e connector, serial ata connectors. I have one now, the fortron blue 500 watt. It also has the 24 pin connector that most of these new boards use. 380watt will be pushing it anyway if you are going to run 6800gt's or better in SLI.

 

[kd2777]

If you have the TRUE380 than you do not have it. I also have the Fortron blue 500 and love it. Nice cabling and lots of power.

kd

 

[Monkey muppet]

darn it.

I was going to buy a kick arse motherboard then everything else as budget so I'm future proffing.

ie: Good motherboard on the 939 combined with the 3000 Newcastle and one 6600gt.

One year later upgrade to the 4000 or what ever is available and a second 6600gt.

I've looked at the specs of the motherboard with the power requirements the current PSU is more than capable (ATM), will have to get a 480 or the 500 in the next upgrade

 

[Monkey muppet]

Thinking about it more logically:

the new ATX standard is the 24pin (four extra pins for more juice down the 12v rail). Now I remember somewhere where you can either use the old standard 20pin connector and it works (the extra 12v pins sends the power to the PCIx16 slot) or use a 20->24 pin adaptor.

SATA is not a problem as I have those (plus you can get the 'Y' adaptor if you need more)