I posted this thread over in "what psu are you using w/a8n-sli". Of course it is just a small part of the problems that I'm experiening with this motherboard.
Anyone using an Antec NeoPower experiencing any problems? I sent mine in on an RMA because I thought it might be bad after a Seagate SATA crapped out. This happened before I even moved the PSU into new system w/A8N. It was runnin a MSI Neo2 Platinum. After installing the PSU into new setup with my ASUS board I experienced nothing but problems (this was runnin 1002 even). The system would boot but it was very weak and as soon as I put it under any load...reboot. I put the old PSU back in (a generic RaidMax 420) and the system runs great. The antec tech said that the PSU is fine and he's sending it back with a full test/voltage report.....I dunno, can't figure it out. ---- I don't want to keep the generic PSU running this system since it doesn't have very stable volts runnin, and for sure it won't hang once I get the second 6600GT.
Unfortunately I would rather sacrifice the OC for my stable RAID 0 setup with my Maxtors. I bought this Mobo because I was too impatient to wait for MSI to release its nForce4 SLI board and I'm regretting it ever since. At stock setting this board runs pretty well with 1002, and of course you know why i can't run anything other since it's impossible to keep my harddrives. I've used the BETAs with an old IDE Seagate 160 overclocking achievements can be reached but nothing compared to my old Neo2. Are any of you soooo fed up that you are looking to buy the gigabyte, or msi board. I expected to face one or two problems, but as the list grows so does my regret.
It is possible to run Maxtor Sata drives off of the Silicon Image contoller and still run whatever bios you would like. I did this for a while runnin and "decent" OC about 2.52. I noticed though, that the nforce controller runs the Sata drives better and faster that the silicon image, it is definitely evident when bechmarking. Mine showed about 12mb/s runnin 1002 for each test. Anyway, just a little note incase anyone is willing to make that leap.