Virtually every modern power supply comes with a 24 pin ATX power connector. The majority of these have a detachable 4 pin connection that allows it to be converted to 20 pin and fit older mother boards.
Some new PSU's however do not have this facility. E.g. Within the new Enermax 82+ series the 425W PSU does have a detachable section, but the 525W & 625W versions do not (as I've recently found out). To use one of these power supplies with an older format motherboard this adaptor is necessary.
I believe a number of the new larger power supplies are not backwards compatible with 20 pin motherboards. Of course it's unlikely that a system based around an old 20 pin board would need the amount of power supplied ... Read More:
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Virtually every modern power supply comes with a 24 pin ATX power connector. The majority of these have a detachable 4 pin connection that allows it to be converted to 20 pin and fit older mother boards.
Some new PSU's however do not have this facility. E.g. Within the new Enermax 82+ series the 425W PSU does have a detachable section, but the 525W & 625W versions do not (as I've recently found out). To use one of these power supplies with an older format motherboard this adaptor is necessary.
I believe a number of the new larger power supplies are not backwards compatible with 20 pin motherboards. Of course it's unlikely that a system based around an old 20 pin board would need the amount of power supplied ... Read More:
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I bought one of these to replace my original ASRock K7SX8E motherboard which suddenly failed, rather than completely replace my old Socket A AMD XP2600+ based system.
This is a very useful motherboard for use as a replacement or when building a system based on the now obsolete Socket A processor.
Installation was easy, though the manual doesn't really tell you a great
deal. There's a lot of support for older hardware, such as IDE hard drives and CD/DVD drives and 1 Floppy drive. There's also a parallel printer port and even a COM1 communications port, and ASRock have even provided a bracket with a COM1 socket on it.
Audio is provided by C-Media AC'97 Onboard Audio and there's 64Mb of Onboard Graphics RAM shared with ... Read More:
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Nice bit of kit this. My Northbridge chipset fan was noisy when new but my PC is now 3 years old and the fan sounds like soneone drilling. The installation does require you to extract the motherboard to pinch out the existing pins which attach the Northbridge fan but once these are out it's pretty simple to line up and attach the brackets and pins for the new cooler. It comes with thermal paste but you'll need to clean up the old paste on the Northbridge first. Methanol is a great solvent for this. Positioning the cooler can be a bit tricky if you already have a large cooling fan for you CPU but the asymmetric vane arrangement and adjustable brackets permit you to twist the cooler round to fit it in snug against the CPU cooler vanes. Just ... Read More:
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Nice bit of kit this. My Northbridge chipset fan was noisy when new but my PC is now 3 years old and the fan sounds like soneone drilling. The installation does require you to extract the motherboard to pinch out the existing pins which attach the Northbridge fan but once these are out it's pretty simple to line up and attach the brackets and pins for the new cooler. It comes with thermal paste but you'll need to clean up the old paste on the Northbridge first. Methanol is a great solvent for this. Positioning the cooler can be a bit tricky if you already have a large cooling fan for you CPU but the asymmetric vane arrangement and adjustable brackets permit you to twist the cooler round to fit it in snug against the CPU cooler vanes. Just ... Read More:
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Great board for both overclockers and gamers, FSB speeds are insane if you know what you're doing, but requires voltmods if you seriously want to overclock your processor, only 4 phase power so the vdroop is horrendous.
The jumpers are a bit fiddly when enabling both PCI-E slots for crossfire, asus boards switch automatically without the need for jumpers, but at this price i can't grumble.
The board layout is really good from the view of cable management, keeps everything really tidy, my only wish is they had put a fan on the northbridge to keep it a little cooler.
I ran into a compatibility problem with this board, my Compro Videomate E800 wouldn't work, it was detected in windows but the drivers would't install, ... Read More:
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All worked first hand as expected. I am using this for a media centre type of computer. I installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU trying to minimise energy avoiding to lose performance, some silent fans, resulting in a very low noise box suitable for the living room (under TV).
I am running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE 4.1 and all the mythtv goodies and two tv cards. The machine is very stable, running 24 hrs, recording and playing flawlessly. Also used it to watch DVDs, streaming music to my Sounbridge, etc.
I was worried that the chipset was not supported by the Linux kernel, but those kernels guys sorted out quickly. I had nothing special to do. The nvidia video driver was also automatically detected and setup. Not a complain ... Read More:
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All worked first hand as expected. I am using this for a media centre type of computer. I installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU trying to minimise energy avoiding to lose performance, some silent fans, resulting in a very low noise box suitable for the living room (under TV).
I am running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE 4.1 and all the mythtv goodies and two tv cards. The machine is very stable, running 24 hrs, recording and playing flawlessly. Also used it to watch DVDs, streaming music to my Sounbridge, etc.
I was worried that the chipset was not supported by the Linux kernel, but those kernels guys sorted out quickly. I had nothing special to do. The nvidia video driver was also automatically detected and setup. Not a complain ... Read More:
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Had this board running on my system for a couple of months now, and have had no problems at all. Initially before i bought it i was concerned about the fitting of the CPU fan as it looked extremley close to the chipset fan, But the CPU fan went in with room to spare. Other connections are well thought out and allow room for air to get round them. The documentation is easy to follow and explained clearly, all the connectors for the board (SATA/IDE, USB, Firewire..etc) are in with the motherboard.
But if your computer case came without mounting screws you'll need to buy the paper washers/screws and motherboard jackscrews to fit the board to the case.
I dont have any regrets getting this board.
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Had this board running on my system for a couple of months now, and have had no problems at all. Initially before i bought it i was concerned about the fitting of the CPU fan as it looked extremley close to the chipset fan, But the CPU fan went in with room to spare. Other connections are well thought out and allow room for air to get round them. The documentation is easy to follow and explained clearly, all the connectors for the board (SATA/IDE, USB, Firewire..etc) are in with the motherboard.
But if your computer case came without mounting screws you'll need to buy the paper washers/screws and motherboard jackscrews to fit the board to the case.
I dont have any regrets getting this board.
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