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Old 01-06-2004, 11:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Kids Power needs for GA-7N400-L nforce 2

I was wondering what kind of power I need for this board. I hope I bought a good enough power supply. I never delt with a nforce 2 chipset before.

I am building:
Athlon XP 2200+
Kingston 512MB DDR333
Western Digital HD 40 gig
Sony CD-RW
Iomega Zip Drive
2 Case fans
1 Volcano 12 HSF
9000 Series 4x AGP Radeon 64MB DDR

Ok so the above is my power consumption needs.
I have in supply a 400 watt A1 ATX P4/P3/AMD Power supply
with the below output:

+3.3V = 15.0A
+5.0V = 30.0A
-5V = 0.6A
+12V = 15A
-12V = 0.6A
+5V-SB = 2.0A

I don't quite have all my parts yet but as I look at it I am kind of scared that I bought a weak power supply. The 15A on the +12 is scarying me the most.

Does anyone out there have close to what I am running and it works for them?? Please help me!

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Old 01-06-2004, 11:30 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Iturea,
I have the Pro version of the board, and though ive had no problems since day one, many have and mainly due to weak power supplys and incompatible memory.

I try and help useres with their boards wherever I find them, and as such have gatherd info and various links for some diff forums, so have a look at this and see what you think
Gigabyte Nforce2 Power Supply FAQ .

Personally if I were building a system today, the power supply I would strongly consider isFortron 530 Review as it seems to be an excellent value.

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Thanks for the links and info. I am going to try to fire this thing up today when my HSF come in and see if it works but it looks like my 12V rail is not going to hold up like I originally thought. NFORCE2 is a power hungry sucker I am figuring out!
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