philscomputerlab wrote:kithylin wrote:
This gigabyte board I'm using, I'm using a modern'ish (it's still old.. before we had 80+ standards) Thermal Take TR-2 435 watt power supply, with most of it's power diverted to the +12v side in my 3200+ system and it's running overclocked at 2528 mhz just hunky dory without problems.
Could you please check what rating it has on the 5V rail? Mine have 20A, which people say is pushing it.
I don't know if it's because of having the 24 amps on +5v or not, but the socket 462 motherboards -WITH- the P4 slot, should be drawing cpu power entirely from the +12v rail. Where as the older socket 462 motherboards -WITHOUT- the P4 plug, were the ones that you had to worry about enough amps on the +5v side.
If you're worried about it, here's a subsidiary of FSP Group way back in the AthlonXP days that sold high-amperage +5v rail power supplies in all of their models:
http://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?_from=R40&_sop … K:MEFSRCHX:SRCH
There's a black one in the list with 420 watts that has a whole 42 amps on +5v for just $37.99, I found a 520-watt one with 52 amps on +5v last year for $25 on ebay from TTGI and it's running happily powering my KT133A socket 462 system (no P4 plug).