4/8/16 pin

hornetstinger

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Noticed the power socket on the top edge of motherboards has changed, I think my AMD 870 has a 4 pin, the X58 has a 8 pin. One I'm looking at has a 8+4 and another one has 8+8

My PSU does have enough outputs but what if you don't populate all of them? ie can you get away with not connecting them all up?
 
depends on which board
some use the second EPS connector as an auxiliary to support higher power CPUs, and so only the primary 8-pin has to be connected
other boards split the VRMs and hence both connectors have to be used
as always, consult the mobo manual
 
hornetstinger said:
Noticed the power socket on the top edge of motherboards has changed, I think my AMD 870 has a 4 pin, the X58 has a 8 pin. One I'm looking at has a 8+4 and another one has 8+8

My PSU does have enough outputs but what if you don't populate all of them? ie can you get away with not connecting them all up?
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My Motherboard also has an extra 8 pin on top of them two 8 pins used for powering the 60 watt front USB-C charging socket
 
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Just checked my psu has a eight pin and the motherboard that is arriving has a eight in and four pin CPU area connectors.

So won't be able to connect the additional 4 pin
 
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hornetstinger said:
It's this PSU

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That has 1 x 8 pin eps
Quite possible you won't need the 4 pin
Would have to know the motherboard/read the board manual
There's also probably some sort of adapter
To go from whatever other connectors you have available
To convert it to the 4 pin
I definitely have a few of those somewhere that
Convert things to an 8 pin eps
Though never actually used any of them
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
That has 1 x 8 pin eps
Quite possible you won't need the 4 pin
Would have to know the motherboard/read the board manual
There's also probably some sort of adapter
To go from whatever other connectors you have available
To convert it to the 4 pin
I definitely have a few of those somewhere that
Convert things to an 8 pin eps
Though never actually used any of them
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I think I have a 4 pin somewhere, molex to 4 pin possibly?

Motherboard is this


From reading around 8 pin is fine, I'd only need the extra four pin for very power hungry CPU and when overclocking like mad
 
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hornetstinger said:
I think I have a 4 pin somewhere, molex to 4 pin possibly?

Motherboard is this


From reading around 8 pin is fine, I'd only need the extra four pin for very power hungry CPU and when overclocking like mad
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Yeah a lot of boards the extra is optional
Most likely molex to 4 pin yes
As usual I know i have the things somewhere
But actually finding them to double check is another matter
One day my pc room will get organised lol
Probably by someone else after I am gone
 
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