[Pc_Support] ATX 2.0 PSU needed

[Damien McKenna]

I need a new ATX 2.0 PSU, my current one is not up to the tasks I'm asking of it.

The current PSU I have in our PC is an Antec SL400.  It powers a Gigabyte nForce 4 SLI motherboard with an Athlon64/3000, 512mb PC2700 DDR, two Maxtor ATA-133 drives (160gb, 80gb), an ATI X700 Pro PCI-Express video card, an LG GSA4183 DVD burner, an array of USB devices and the SCSI card I got the other day.  Everything was fine this evening with the above components.

Tonight I finally got the correct cabling necessary to install a DLT drive and as soon as I got it wired correctly the PCI-Express card stopped working and the motherboard started beeping when it was turned on.  The weird part is that it booted twice while I was getting the card & drive set up correctly and indeed may have worked perfectly once, but on a third boot I was greeted with four short beeps and no POST signal!

This was an immediate throw back to when our previous PCI-e video card gave up the ghost and was replaced with our current card.

I spent a little time fiddling with different attachments to see if I could work out what was going on and finally I've tracked down the problem: the PSU isn't good enough.

The PSU is an Antec SL400:
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=25400
http://www.antec.com/specs/sl400_spe.html
It has a 20pin connector which suggests its ATX 1.0 rather than 2.0.  Its also driving a heck of a lot of stuff that it probably isn't able for, namely the DLT drive along with the rest.

So I'm on the market for a new ATX2.0 PSU.  Any suggestions for something reliable but not too expensive?  We've been sinking more into our PC lately than I like.

Thanks.

Damien