Asus T2-AE1 anyone?

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Anyone bought one? First impressions?
Can see no reviews anywhere...
Thanks in advance.
 
Anyone bought one? First impressions?
Can see no reviews anywhere...
Thanks in advance.
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S754 with SIS chipset. It uses the same chipset as the K8S-MX
Asus board. You might try doing a search on K8S-MX in Google,
to see if there are any problems with the chipset or any
compatibility issues with AGP video cards. You could also
search on SIS 760GX, in case other motherboard brands
are using the chipset.

Paul
 
Paul said:
S754 with SIS chipset. It uses the same chipset as the K8S-MX
Asus board. You might try doing a search on K8S-MX in Google,
to see if there are any problems with the chipset or any
compatibility issues with AGP video cards. You could also
search on SIS 760GX, in case other motherboard brands
are using the chipset.

Paul
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Thanks for that Paul.
My main concern is whether the included 200W PSU will be sufficient to
power a mid-range video card, Athlon 64 CPU, a SATA hard drive or two,
DVD burner etc.
 
Thanks for that Paul.
My main concern is whether the included 200W PSU will be sufficient to
power a mid-range video card, Athlon 64 CPU, a SATA hard drive or two,
DVD burner etc.
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There are some real power measurements for Athlon64 here. The
Winchester looks pretty good. You can use the real power
measurements to apply a correction to the takaman data below.

http://www.hardtecs4u.com/reviews/2005/leistungsmessung_intel/index7.php

This site will allow you to calculate needed power.

http://takaman.jp/D/?english

Notes on Takaman data:
1) CPU estimates are based on TDP, which will be on the high side.
2) Memory powers are more reasonable than some other power supply
estimator sites. (Download some micron.com DDR datasheets to see
for yourself what real numbers are like.)
3) Listed disk drive power is for startup only (i.e. during motor
spinup). The +12V will drop to 0.5A or so, once the drive is
running at speed. The optical drive listed below is a
"power footprint" number (similar to a TDP) and is not
representative of real power, but I don't have any real numbers
to correct it. I tried looking one night for real optical drive
power numbers from ODD manufacturers, but couldn't find any.

************
From takaman...
your parts (or equivalents) QTY 3.3V 5V 12V W
M/B Athlon Motherboard - with ATX12V Conn (estimated) 1 3.0 2.0 0.3 23.5
CPU Athlon64 3400+ 1 7.4 88.8
CPU Fan HEDGEHOG-294M w/DELTA 6800rpm 1 0.5 6.0
Memory PC3200 512MB 16chip(32Mx8) NANYA 2 0.82 8.2
FDD Mitsumi D359M3D/D353M3D 1 0.32 1.6
HDD HGST IC35L020AVER07 30GB/7200rpm 1 1.13 2.0 29.6
LITEON LTC-48161H (DVDx4/Rx24/CDx32) 1 1.5 1.5 25.5
Video(AGP) Leadtek WinFast A350 TDH (FX5900) 1 3.5 3.5 59.5
Mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical USB and PS/2 1 0.1 0.5
Keyboard Microsoft Natural Keyboard series 1 0.5 2.5
Case Fan 109R0812G402 80x80x25mm 4500rpm 1 0.37 4.4
The required specs of your pc is as follows.
3.3V line MAX 2.7 A or above
5V line MAX 9.9 A or above : **very important
12V line MAX 16.6 A or above : **very important
3.3 +5V combined MAX 58.8 W or above : *important
3.3 +5 +12V combined MAX 258 W or above
total output 268 W or above

Now, apply a couple corrections

your parts (or equivalents) QTY 3.3V 5V 12V W
M/B Athlon Motherboard - with ATX12V Conn (estimated) 1 3.0 2.0 0.3 23.5
3500+ winchester 90nm 1 3.2 38.6
CPU Fan HEDGEHOG-294M w/DELTA 6800rpm 1 0.5 6.0
Memory PC3200 512MB 16chip(32Mx8) NANYA 2 0.82 8.2
FDD Mitsumi D359M3D/D353M3D 1 0.32 1.6
HDD HGST IC35L020AVER07 30GB/7200rpm 1 1.13 0.5 11.6
LITEON LTC-48161H (DVDx4/Rx24/CDx32) 1 1.5 1.5 25.5
Video(AGP) Leadtek WinFast A350 TDH (FX5900) 1 3.5 3.5 59.5
Mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical USB and PS/2 1 0.1 0.5
Keyboard Microsoft Natural Keyboard series 1 0.5 2.5
Case Fan 109R0812G402 80x80x25mm 4500rpm 1 0.37 4.4
The required specs of your pc is as follows.
3.3V line MAX 2.7 A or above
5V line MAX 9.9 A or above : **very important
12V line MAX 10.9 A or above : **very important
3.3 +5V combined MAX 58.8 W or above : *important
3.3 +5 +12V combined MAX 190 W or above
total output 200 W or above (allocates [email protected] ...)
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OK. You have good reason to be concerned. The Asus supply
has 3.3@14 5@21 12@10 and +5VSB@2 . The +12V is pretty
weak, if you plan on using a video card like a FX5900.
If you use a video card without a separate drive cable,
expect video card power to drop to around 30W or so (about
half the power listed above).

For additional sanity testing, these xbitlabs articles have
real power measurements of some video cards. You can correct
the takaman numbers with the data in here.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-powercons.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-vs-nv-power.html

HTH,
Paul
 
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