Hi Everyone
Right, i have read many forums/articles/stickies ^ on power supplies, but still havent got much of an idea if my new PSU will work with my system. I've also bought a new XFX 8800GTS GPU. (I havent installed either of these).
This is the PSU i've bought:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=223827
From what i can gather the 12V rails are the important ones. On the box it says:+12V1 16A. +12V2 20A. +12V3 16A. So it has 3 rails?
My computer is fairly standard (Asus P5N-MX MBD, CD/DVD drive, 3GB RAM, Internet connector thing, 22inch monitor and now the graphics card).
From the link's FAQs, you can see that the PSU has the 'usual' connectors, and when i bought it i thought it had a pci-e connector, but it doesnt. It has an adapter from a 4-pin molex to the 6-pin pci-e. Will this power my graphics card?
Also there are like 4 4-pin molex wires coming out of the unit, does it matter which one i choose as the one to connect to the adapter.
So the +12v1 etc thing i mentioned... Does it mean some of the wires come from v1, some from v2, and some from v3. If so, there is only a max of 20A on the v2 rail, whereas my graphics card says that nvidia recommend '400W supply (with 12V current rating of 26A)'.
Also ^^, in the graphics card box, it says that 'XFX does not support the use of two 4-pin to one 6-pin power cable converter for these graphics cards. They are only designed to work with high performance power supplies using 6-pin PCI-e cables'. So from the sound of that i need to get another PSU, but other people have said that it works fine... based on this
http://answers.yahoo.com/quest...=20070816083455AAk4htd
Is it worth ?risking? it, just to see if it works like the man on Yahoo. Im so confused, would someone (johnnyguru
) be able to explain in simpletons terms, or just say if it will or wont work.
Thanks ever so much.
Right, i have read many forums/articles/stickies ^ on power supplies, but still havent got much of an idea if my new PSU will work with my system. I've also bought a new XFX 8800GTS GPU. (I havent installed either of these).
This is the PSU i've bought:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=223827
From what i can gather the 12V rails are the important ones. On the box it says:+12V1 16A. +12V2 20A. +12V3 16A. So it has 3 rails?
My computer is fairly standard (Asus P5N-MX MBD, CD/DVD drive, 3GB RAM, Internet connector thing, 22inch monitor and now the graphics card).
From the link's FAQs, you can see that the PSU has the 'usual' connectors, and when i bought it i thought it had a pci-e connector, but it doesnt. It has an adapter from a 4-pin molex to the 6-pin pci-e. Will this power my graphics card?
Also there are like 4 4-pin molex wires coming out of the unit, does it matter which one i choose as the one to connect to the adapter.
So the +12v1 etc thing i mentioned... Does it mean some of the wires come from v1, some from v2, and some from v3. If so, there is only a max of 20A on the v2 rail, whereas my graphics card says that nvidia recommend '400W supply (with 12V current rating of 26A)'.
Also ^^, in the graphics card box, it says that 'XFX does not support the use of two 4-pin to one 6-pin power cable converter for these graphics cards. They are only designed to work with high performance power supplies using 6-pin PCI-e cables'. So from the sound of that i need to get another PSU, but other people have said that it works fine... based on this
http://answers.yahoo.com/quest...=20070816083455AAk4htd
Is it worth ?risking? it, just to see if it works like the man on Yahoo. Im so confused, would someone (johnnyguru
) be able to explain in simpletons terms, or just say if it will or wont work.Thanks ever so much.
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