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Using 20 pin PS with gigabyte ds3?

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darkhorror

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I have an Antec TruePower 500W( regual Truepower before 2.0), it has a 20Pin connector not a 24 pin. I am getting a gigabyte DS3, x1800xt, and E6300. I was wondering if it will work ok and not hurt anything.

I have been looking online and reading very mixed things, for some it works great others doesnt' work at all.
 
Originally posted by: darkhorror
I have an Antec TruePower 500W( regual Truepower before 2.0), it has a 20Pin connector not a 24 pin. I am getting a gigabyte DS3, x1800xt, and E6300. I was wondering if it will work ok and not hurt anything.

I have been looking online and reading very mixed things, for some it works great others doesnt' work at all.
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There are adapters that work A-OK. That's about all you need. If you have some stability issues or something of that nature then you can get a new one. It's easier to try a $10 adapter than to go buy a new PSU just because you think maybe your current one may not work. No need to spend money if you don't have to right?
 
i'm not quite sure that will work on that setup - the 20pin PSUs have trouble supplying power to a high end PCIe video card and CPU simultaneously. the X1800XT sucks up a metric crapload of power (from personal experience), and if you plan on doing overclocking, which i'd imagine is the reason for the e6300 and DS3 combo, then you'll want the extra stability of a 24-pin PSU.
 
Antec doesn't actually list a 500W TruePower, either 480 or 550. The 480W does have 28A on the 12V rail, which might be just barely enough, and the 550W is 30A which is I think what is recommended for total 12V power for high-end PCIe cards. Even though your PSU probably does have enough power on the 12V line, having to run at near its maximum capacity at all times on the single rail might make it unstable. With a newer PSU with two 12V rails, even if their combined maximum output is still only 30A, it'll probably be more reliably stable.

But as cmdrdredd said, give it a shot first, it can't hurt anything, but if you have stability issues and see that the voltages are too low in monitoring, then the PSU probably isn't handling it well.
 
looks like it's the 550. I will be trying it out, I also read somewhere that the adapter doesn't really do anything compaired to just plugging it in. It simply moves the trouble spot from one place to another. I am not sure if thats true, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to hurt anything if I were to try it out.

I also was hoping that someone had actually tried it.
 
Anyone else got any input???

I am thinking about just ordering another PS. I don't really want to get the components on thursday find out that my current one doesn't work then order another one and have to wait untill next week to use it. But then again it would be nice if I could save the money and use the one I have.

If I do have to order a new one what would you suggest?

I was looking at this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103931 as it's on sale for a good bit off, makes price decent.
 
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