As I recently received a "use it or lose it" type command from the Mrs, I'm planning to revive a circa 2004 mid-tower all-aluminum ATX case PC. It was equipped with an Antec True480 ATX PSU that was powered an AMB Athlon64 3000+ CPU mounted to an MSI K8N Neo2 Platnum mainboard. The Antec True480 did the job without fail, but seeing the new "modular" PSUs makes the integrated "rat's nest" wiring harness attached to the old PSU look pretty feeble by comparison.
I found a lightly-used PC build package that's predicated on an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend ATX LGA 1700 mainboard employing an Intel Core 17-12700K 3.6GHz 12-Core CPU. I'm sure that my age shows here, but I will not be adding a dGPU card and, instead, will use the integrated graphics provided by the CPU. There are more components in the package, but they're not exactly power hogs, so I won't muddy the water by listing them in this post.
The guy that I'm buying the components from recommended an 850W PSU for my build, so I started reading up on the available choices - with low noise being very high on the list of desired features - but that's when I picked up on something that may [or may not] complicate matters: the arrival of ATX 3.0 PSUs.
Once again, I don't wish to complicate things, so I'll simply ask anyone who's up on the new PSU standard if, by purchasing an ATX 3.0 PSU, are you rendering a "last generation" mainboard - like the ASRock Z690 Steel Legend we wish to use in our next PC - redundant? Put another way, are the new ATX 3.0 PSUs backward compatible with older ATX mainboards like the one we plan to use?
Thank you kindly for any help.
I found a lightly-used PC build package that's predicated on an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend ATX LGA 1700 mainboard employing an Intel Core 17-12700K 3.6GHz 12-Core CPU. I'm sure that my age shows here, but I will not be adding a dGPU card and, instead, will use the integrated graphics provided by the CPU. There are more components in the package, but they're not exactly power hogs, so I won't muddy the water by listing them in this post.
The guy that I'm buying the components from recommended an 850W PSU for my build, so I started reading up on the available choices - with low noise being very high on the list of desired features - but that's when I picked up on something that may [or may not] complicate matters: the arrival of ATX 3.0 PSUs.
Once again, I don't wish to complicate things, so I'll simply ask anyone who's up on the new PSU standard if, by purchasing an ATX 3.0 PSU, are you rendering a "last generation" mainboard - like the ASRock Z690 Steel Legend we wish to use in our next PC - redundant? Put another way, are the new ATX 3.0 PSUs backward compatible with older ATX mainboards like the one we plan to use?
Thank you kindly for any help.
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