New Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Manual Available

[colm]

Hi folks,

I've now got all of my goodies except my new motherboard, estimated arrival date is 12th December 2004... Hope I get it before christmas!

http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a...-d/overview.htm

The manual for the motherboard is online (uk site is broken)

http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket9..._sli_deluxe.zip

My new graphics card states minimum psu at 450W, but it's an SLI graphics card and mobo, so I wonder what the power requirements are for 2 cards

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/cop...800_Series.html

I'm looking for a !silent! psu that will support 2 sli graphics cards and the athlon 64 3500+ Looks like I need >= 500 from the motherboard manual, but the 450W requirement for a single graphics card alone has thrown me....

Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks

[colm]

New estimated date of arrival 17th December, then it needs to get posted out to me.

I'm not getting this before January am I?

:-(

[benners]

I always get the biggest PSU I can afford, plenty of molex connectors for upgrades and fancy lights. I have only fitted one silent PSU and it was a Tagan, felt pretty solid and the bloke has had no problems with it.

Scan have built an SLI machine link and they are using a 480w Tagan so you should be ok with that wattage

[colm]

Thanks for the reply - I was about to go for the Tagan TG480-U01 480W Silent PSU

, but at the last minute changed over to the Akasa 460W Active PFC 12cm Fan Ultra Quiet PSU - Black Nickel. 3 reasons for this really.

1. in quoted "normal" operation the Akasa was 2 dB(A) quieter (18).

2. My case is black and the Akasa is "black nickel" I don't know wwhat the tagan one is (product shot showed just the box)

3. Akasa was £10 cheaper

Downside is obviously that the Akasa is 20W less beefy but I'll take my chances and see what happens when the time comes to plug in graphics card number 2 (at least 6 months from now...)

New estimated mobo delivery date 20th December.... :-((

[colm]

In a moment of movie inspired madness, Asus have released a trailer for their new motherboard!

http://event.asus.com/sli/index.htm

Not listened with the sound on, cause I'm at work, but I'm guessing it's surely the same guy as on all the video trailers

"Beyond the mists of time, in a world beyond our ken..."

Gets my juices going though!

:-D

[cpfc]

Hopefully I get my board in the morning. Just working out a slipstreamed disk for it.