First build thread

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:14

im trying to find the right ports to plug my front panel headers into the mobo and am having some difficulty

power led
power led+

hdaudio which has an ac97 wire attached

power sw

hdd led

usb

reset sw

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:17

All the front wire connectors go to the bunch of pins at the bottom right of the board, right in the corner.

The USB and Hd audio(leave the AC97part dangling) goes along the bottom of the board.

This is in the manual

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:20

Page 34+35

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:20

the psu only has a 2x 4pin connector where thegraphics card needs 2 x 6pin. Is there meant to be an adaptor with the psu or the gpu?

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:21

The 2X4pin join together to go next to the cpu socket.

in the box of the PSU will be the PCI-E cables you need.

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:27

The PCI-E cables have red ends?

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:29

pci-e cables go from 8 pin to 6 pin dangling off is another 6 pin and 2pin

edit: yes they have red ends

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:30

Thats right, some cards need all 8pin (6+2pin) as they are that powerful.

Just push two of the 6pins in and leave the two 2pins dangling.

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:32

shall i use 2 different cables or just one?

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:33

USe two different cables to balance the load across the PSU.

So you have two red connectors on the PSU? each cable has two ends 2X (6+2pins)

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:34

also the cpu is connected to the psu with an 8pin. are the 2 x 4 pin meant to dangle?

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:35

Thats right, the PSU has both a 8pin and 2X4pin,, use either

Some motherboards use a 4pin connection only, some need two 8pin stuck in them.

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:36

there are 2 8pin red connectors free on the psu - i have 2 identical forementioned cables.

i was thiniking i might have to use the second slot to power the front case fan

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:38

Not sure i follow,

The front case fan will use a flat four pin connector with slightly angled edges?

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:40

front case fan is 3 pin but there is no free 3 pin in reach of the wire.

is it possible to plug it into a 4 pin using a 3pin?

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:42

does it look like this? on the left?

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:43

the one on the right

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:49

Thats weird, is there any sort of adapter that converts it in to a 4pin molex

Melax · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:52

yes but there is no spare molex on the mobo as the only availabe one is taken by the back case fan

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:55

You need to remove the rear case fan from that molex on the motherboard.

That is for when you have three graphic cards and the motherboard needs more power to run them.

All fans plug directly into the PSU cables!!!!

Except the Gelid cooler which does go directly into the board.