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Dempsey22

Dempsey22

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Hi all,

I started my build last night but I just want to check a few things before I continue cabling things up.

I have the BeQuiet Power Zone 650w which looks like this

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I have the main ATX connector which is 20+4 on one end and 20+8 on the other. I connected the 20+8 to the 2 slots saying MB on the PSU and then the 20+4 to the MB itself. I have another cable which connects to the P8 slot on PSU and it has 4+4 on the other end saying CPU 1 and CPU 2 ? Do both of these need to connected or what?

I'm running Gigabyte Z87-D3HP with 4670k.

Any help would be appreciated :)
 
Some motherboards have a square 4 pin socket located near the CPU and some have an 8 pin rectangle socket located near the CPU. Its to give the CPU more power.

The Z87-D3HP has a black 8 pin rectangle socket at the top of the motherboard adjacent the long heatsink. It goes in there.
 
varkanoid said:
Some motherboards have a square 4 pin socket located near the CPU and some have an 8 pin rectangle socket located near the CPU. Its to give the CPU more power.

The Z87-D3HP has a black 8 pin rectangle socket at the top of the motherboard adjacent the long heatsink. It goes in there.
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So I put the connectors saying CPU 1 & CPU 2 and plug it in there?
 
Yes. You will find on more overclocking orientated boards an 8 pin socket to give the CPU more power and stability.

Sometimes the 8 pin plug is made of two 4 pin plugs and you will see a small lip which is supposed to hold them together but more times the not it doesnt and its a pita when trying to plug them in!

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varkanoid said:
Yes.
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Perfect thanks.

This is my first time ever building a computer so just wanted to make sure. ;)

One more thing I need to question is I have 5 case fans and 2 CPU fans ( Noctua NH-D14 ). I have the 2 CPU fans connected to the CPU Fan & CPU Fan OPT on the mobo.

With the 5 case fans should I run them all off the mobo ? or some off mobo and some off PSU ?

Is this just personal reference or is there any difference?

Thanks for your help.
 
Use all the fan headers on the motherboard it makes for neater cable control. Then any left over use from PSU. Alternatively I like to use a fan controller in a 5.25" bay because I like to control the speed of all my fans and my motherboard does not have fan speed control in the bios.

Its partly down to preference. If you connect everything up only to find one of the fans is particularly noisy unless that socket can be controlled to alter the speed you are stuck with it. Then you have to think of limiting the speed by adding a resistor cable or whatever.

Hence why I prefer a fan controller.
 
I have 2 splitters at the moment, I can power 2 fans off 1 header so am I best running them all off mobo ?

This is what its looking like at the moment. Excuse the mess but its my first build and I'm not routing everything final as I'm waiting on 290 non reference plus I'm individually sleeving the wires but waiting on heatshrink to arrive.

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You can do if you want just remember splitters reduce the power to each fan so they dont run as fast as rated.

its fine, mine is a bit of a mess anyway.
 
I did, two apache fans using a splitter one wouldnt turn unless you flicked it so I avoid using them.

just looked at the one above its powered via SATA. Didnt read it properly.

I think splitters are okay running from the PSU but not from motherboard fan headers for the power.
 
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Fired it up earlier and went to BIOS screen :) I couldn't install Windows as I can't find the disc have to go digging tomorrow.

The only issue I'm having is whats in the picture. This first happened when I was plugging in the USB mouse into the back panel/IO shield. Happened a few times randomly after that. Any ideas?? Hope its something stupid :confused:

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Looks like a video card issue. Is it securely plugged in ? Make sure its in the PCI-E slot properly and that the power connectors to the video card are plugged in.
 
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