New Asus A8V-E MB, What Power Supply?

bobbertbobbert
edited April 2005 in Hardware
I purchased an Asus A8V-E DELUXE/CH1-11-AAY Via K8T890 Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard. The manual says it is a "eATX form factor 24 Pin connector". I cannot find any with this description. My manual says the MB must have a 24-pin connector. I have 2 24pin power supplies' that will fit into it BUT none of them have a wire in the #20 pin hole, it is open. And none of them has a –5V wire anyplace. My manual says it must have a White -5V wire there for it to work. All that I can find are open without any wire in the 20 spot and they will not work.
Please, can somebody tell me what form factor connector do I need? And would you please recommend 2 or 3 Power Supplies that are compatible with my motherboard, that has a "-5v WIRE" where I need it.
Thank you in advance

Comments

  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Most 24-pins psu's have a -5V wire. This wire is only used as a sense line, but somtimes peripherals needs it to function. On the MSI NF4, you might loose the onboard sound if you don't have the -5V for example. Not sure about your board though.

    Both the OCZ Modstream and Powerstream have that wire. I think the Fortron Source 24-pins psu's also have it but i'm not 100% sure.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited April 2005
    I belive antec's neo power has an adaptor with it for 24 pin. Also antec's new truepower 2.0 series are natively 24 pin. Also I belive ocz's powerstream psu's are 24 pin.And enermax's Fma series.
  • bobbertbobbert
    edited April 2005
    Gray Fox: Thank you for responding. Antec does show they have a –5V output on some of their models, I contacted them and this was their response:
    “Robert, We do not carry the 24-pin power supply with the -5V wire. It is no longer used. You might want to try and check the website or call the manufacturer of the motherboard and look
    for the hardware compatibility for it. Don Macagba”
    He could be wrong, but that was their response.
  • bobbertbobbert
    edited April 2005
    MackanzOCZ: Many thanks, I’ll check them out today.

    A few hrs. later, after checking some websites...

    MackanzOCZ: from what I can find out, the FORTRON SOURCE FSP460-60PFN-S is the only model from OCZ or Fortron that has Active PFC and Dual +12V and the –5V. I think I want all three options so if I want to use sometime with another MB. [I am setting this up to try XP 64 beta].. I would like to have more Watts but this is the best I have found. If you, or anyone else have any ideas, please tell me more as to what I need, OR don’t need, please let me know. In other words, I don’t know what I really need, just some thoughts that may be way off base. Thanks again
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    What you need mostly is a good 12V line. Preferably 30 amps+ on one 12V line or over that if there are 2X12V lines. A64 draws a lot of 12V. If you do not intend to overclock, you'll do fine with 400W and a respectable brand as long as it's native 24 pins and have that -5V line.
  • bobbertbobbert
    edited April 2005
    OK, Thanks.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited April 2005
    I run two dual opterons that are supposed to be EATX with normal cheap ATX PSU's and a 20 pin (atx) to 24pin (eatx) adapter.

    Cost 10 bucks

    work great.

    Tex
  • bobbertbobbert
    edited April 2005
    Tex: That is what I am using now. I thought I would upgrade. Mainly because of the PCI-e card. Thanks for the good advice.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited April 2005
    I'm doing the same thing on the new dfi UT ultra/amd64 3400+ with ATI x600 pci-e all-in-wonder and seems to be running perfect on a 520watt $33 TTGI psu.

    Good Luck

    Tex
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