arctic T2 + ATX2 mobo?

lozza23_uk · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:05

oh the hassle, does this belong in a case section, or a mobo section.

anyway here goes.

The arctic cooling T2 case. comes with a nice quiet PSU. but I think it only has 20pins.

Quote from their site:
"For ATX there is no motherboard that requires an ATX 2.0 PSU or a 24 pin plug. If the PSU provides enough continuous power at the 12 Volt rail (as ours), all configurations will work fine. Our PSU is tested with a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 and a NVIDIA 6800 Ultra VGA board.
Using the 20 pin mainboard plug at mainboards with 24 pin socket you have to install in addition a 5.25" power plug in case there is such a socket (depending to the mainboard manufacturer) to get the power for the VGA board. Don't use a 20 to 24 pin adapter!"

its the last line that concerns me. how am I meant to plug a 20pin PSU into a 24pin hole on a mobo?

any ideas?

Wyvern971 · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:07

leave the last 4 pins empty works fine

lozza23_uk · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:15

does it really?
but now, how to tell first and lat 4 pins apart?

vanandjuanunited · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:16

There is a clip to line up in the socket.

lozza23_uk · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:18

yeah, just assumed it would be in the middle of the 24pins, not lopsided.

how odd. well, no worries then. will go ahead and buy the bits i need

Wyvern971 · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:34

lozza23_uk said:
yeah, just assumed it would be in the middle of the 24pins, not lopsided.

how odd. well, no worries then. will go ahead and buy the bits i need

It will work fine, it doesn't go in the middle (it goes in lop sided)
As shown nyah

lozza23_uk · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:11

ahh so, as shown in the picture, it is difficult to tell which side of the mobo it should go in. I can leave the blanks on the left or the right.

sure i would soon find out, it will either work or it wont