ATX 4 pin to 8 pin adapter

D.Roberts

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ATX 4 pin to 8 pin adapter (FIXED PLEASE READ)

Hi all need some advice please :)

I promised the kids I would build them a PC from my old system as my mate gave me his old parts.

I used the PSU though and I now have an issue.

The motherboard I am going to use for the kids build has an ATX 8 pin connector but my PSU does not it only has an ATX 4 pin :(

I was looking at this on OCUK

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-063-AK&groupid=1929&catid=153

And thought great :).

The system I am building is

CPU Q6700
MB Striker Extreme (old one)
GPU ATI 4890
MEM 4x1GB sticks

Power supply is a TRUST 520W (not the best but I cant afford a new one) so full specs are

http://www.trust.com/en/all-products/14996-520w-psu-big-fan

Would I have issues I WILL NOT BE OVERCLOCKING AT ALL :)

Thanks
 
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that cable will be fine, I went from a AMD system to intel system and did the same thing as my current PSU at the time only had a 4 pin connecter.

the cable did he job fine and had no issues
 
the 1 I had at the time was a 500w OCZ thing which I still have laying about as a spare.

give the PSU a try, should be able to cope with the system you posted as nothing too taxing on power
 
I am just worrying that it will be trying to pull to much from the wires.

I cant seem to figure out what my system will draw in Watts

CPU
GPU etc etc

thanks for the response mate is there all so some one here that might confirm I should be ok or will the wires melt with this setup? :(
 
Have you tried to power up with only the 4 pin connected?

The old Asus P6T boards used to come with an 8 pin connector, and they had a cover fitted over half of it, exposing 4 pins. It still worked OK, I suppose they only required the full 8 pin connector when over clocking?
 
Well bleeding hell so it does :O

Thanks mushtafa :) thats great and this should please the kids no end I might even build this thing tonight so they can play a little Mine Craft tomorrow (They have been bugging me for weeks to play it).

Thanks :)
 
That psu is garbage and the only place I would put that is in the bin. The website link doesn't even give the capabilities of the rails and I can't find them anywhere else either.
 
I was worried about that tbh mate :(

I just found this psu and it will be much better even though it does not have 8pin ATX

would this be ok?

Thanks again all for the help
 
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crap your right I was in a rush and thought it was the official OCZ site LOL hang on :)

Thanks for letting me know

P.S

U now need to edit your quote LOL :P
 
The Trust 520w PSU would probably be okay if you dont tax your machine with an overclock. Reason why motherboards used to allow either 4 pin or 8 pin ATX connector was mainly to allow extra juice to be used when you did decide to overclock. So 4 pin for normal operation and 8 pin for overclocking. You also used to see 4 pin ATX connectors coupled with a molex connector on the motherboard too.

Really I would go and buy a decent cheap 400/500w PSU if you can afford it.
Corsair Builder Series or EVGA. Even a decent 450w PSU would suffice.
 
WellI give up

Ive built this thing and I cant get it to work right.

I boot from CD and once it gets past the windows screen its just black so I cant even install windows I am thinking its a combination of power being drawn from GPU and missing that 8pin ATX

The gpu I have reqiures 2x||PCI-e connections this PSU only has one so I am using the molex adapter thing.

Other than lack of power i have no clue as this pc worked perfect before :(
 
nah I aint got another PSU :( and really cant spend any money on parts just yet.

Thanks for all the help every one I shall see what I can do in the future if I ever get some spare moneys :)
 
What does the sticker on the side of the psu state for the +12v rail? I bet it's nowhere near 520w and you are running a fairly power hungry cpu and gpu.
 
I have been having all sorts of issues but it aint just PSU I swapped my old 750 back in and still had issues installing windows.

I now have managed to install win7 but keep getting blue screens this is a joke.

I think its because once I got the pc to install windows I swapped back to crappy PSU whice in turn cant power the cpu,gpu so blue screened.

I put an old 8800 in and now seems fine so either

A GPU is dieing
B PSU cant power GPU as it reqiures a 2x 6pin PCI-e cable :(

Gutted as this was going to be for the kids now its looking less likely.
 
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