New build in progress, need help opty 170 a8n-sli deluxe

AFTER A FRUSTRATING 10 MINUTES WRITING THIS POST AND HAVING IT DELETED BECAUSE OF NORTON INTERNET SECURITY BEING A PIECE OF **** AND DELETING MY COOKIE, HERE IS MY POST AGAIN RETYPED.

It's 4:30am so bare with any bad typing, incoherent sentence fragments or whatever, sorry about that.

I have a new computer that I have most of the parts for and have started building today and need some advice. I am going to cut to the chase because I spent 10 minutes typing up 8 paragraphs before and then losing it and I don't really feel like retyping them because I have a 10 hour work day ahead of me today before I can play with my computer again, that aside, here are the specs of my new computer.

a8n-sli deluxe r. 1.02
opteron 170 dual core 0546
XP-120 (god it was a piece of **** to install) - thermalright 120mm fan
raptor + 200GB seagate 7200rpm internal HD's
audigy xi-fi soundcard
asus dual layer dvd burner 16x
corsair 2x512mb ddr400 xms cas2
floppy drive
thermaltake armor series - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133154
ati x300se 256mb pci-e (temporary)

psu - need suggestion mine isn't compatible with this motherboard. I need something that will be able to power the above system (with 2 powerful GPU's in SLI mode), be stable, be QUIET, fit in my case, be compatible with my motherboard, be somewhat decently priced.

considering - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817711001

haven't selected because it's $209


Another question, after hours of building this system I came to the awesome portion of connecting my current PSU to the motherboard and finding out 20pin wasn't going to work with it. (I stupidly thought the +4 pin +12V connector was the extra +4 I needed to fit a 24 pin motherboard.) I won't be able to get the new PSU ordered until Tuesday, so I won't have it until Thursday and maybe Friday of next week. With the artic silver I applied need to be reapplied? I'm not used to not having this initial burn-in so late after applying the thermal compound. I didn't know if it would be unreliable as to the cooling if left to harden without having the initial phase. Hope you guys can help and understand my middle of the night/morning blabbering, thanks.

Don't get the 600W, it doesn't have a good rep and is dual rail when single is better nowadays. The OCZ520 Powerstream, however, would be a great choice.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817711002
Bound to be around cheaper somewhere though.

On the SLI side of things, I still think SLI is marketing hype and it's better bang for buck to go with the best single card you can/want to afford.

I'd recommend that OCZ520 anyway but as far as I understand it a 20 pin PSU will power yr board fine (if its got the amps that is) as long as you plug an extra 4 pin molex into the molex socket next to the pci-e slot. That extra socket does the same thing as the extra 4 pins. So when you get the 24 pin PSU you don't need to plug the extra molex in.

Yea my current PSU is the silent pure power thermalright (or thermaltake, I can't remember) 480W PSU. I really like it because it's been stable, quiet, and nice for me but the 20 pin connector worried me. so if I connect the 4pin molex to the +12V connector by the CPU, I can connect the 20 pin connector to the 24 pin power and still be able to boot without any issues? It would help out a TON. I just want to test all my components and get a head start on any RMA's I might need. I bought the opty 170 OEM and it's been about 10 days since I received it, I have 4 left to get it tested and I was getting worried. If you honestly know I can use the 20 pin connector and give it a go, please let me know and I will do it. Thanks.

edit: in response to your SLI hype, I was planning on buying the two BEST cards on the market at the time of my purchase. which right now would be 2x7800GTXOC 512MB.

Re Power supply

vixro said:

psu - need suggestion mine isn't compatible with this motherboard. I need something that will be able to power the above system (with 2 powerful GPU's in SLI mode), be stable, be QUIET, fit in my case, be compatible with my motherboard, be somewhat decently priced.

considering - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817711001

haven't selected because it's $209

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Even given the price, I'm considering the PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 Express/SLI. Yes it is pricy, but my luck in the past with their PS's is great. I am not happy with my modular plug 500 watt.

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=T51SLIhttp://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=T51SLI

GL

BG

Yeah, if you're going to spend $200 on a powersupply, make it the PC power and cooling 510w sli. Otherwise you can go with the OCZ 520w powerstream, the fortron 550w PLG, or the silverstone 560w.

Okay, I am up and running with the regular 20 pin power supply and no issues on that field, but I have a problem. I use a thermaltake 120mm fan with the pci slot as the controller but I am having a problem with the controller. The fan seems to want to run at full speed, then drop down to my controller speed at random times. I have cool n quiet disabled and qfan disabled, I removed the jumper from the fan so it knows to take the pci slot's setting, but I can't control it past POST for some reason. The fan sounds like a jet engine at 2600rpm and it's DEAD quiet at 1800rpm which is my setting. There it went down to 1800rpm again, then back to 2600rpm, blah. Temps are going from 28c to 31c idle as the fan changes and messes around. Any ideas?