For a none Gaming/OC board, does 4pin or 8 pin CPU power matter?

[Gimpymoo]

Does it matter if the board utilises 4pin ATX12v or 8pin EPS12v?

If no overclocking is taking place?

Query is relating to B450M boards with a 3200G.

Thanks.

 

[Jacky60]

I don't understand the question but I do understand that you should definitely plug ALL power connectors on a mobo with power afaik. Happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure you want every socket on the mobo designed to receive power actually getting power.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Sorry if the question was confusing.

What I meant was if one board uses 4 pins, the other uses 8 pins, is the 4 pin one inferior in any way?

 

[Tetras]

The 8 pin has a higher power limit so it suggests that the board and the VRMs may be designed to deliver moar power.

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

For a 3200G it wont matter, only thing it might make a difference on is the high power Ryzen 9's

 

[Gimpymoo]

The 8 pin has a higher power limit so it suggests that the board and the VRMs may be designed to deliver moar power.

For a 3200G it wont matter, only thing it might make a difference on is the high power Ryzen 9's

Thank you for the replies.

Yes, that does make sense.

As said, even though are lower end boards, one would expect the 8pin one to have more power should I want to upgrade in the future and as @Tetras says, maybe the VRMs are a little better, who knows.

Infact, screw it, am going to go full ATX, am finding at budget price, mATX has too many compromises. A single fan header is a joke and would prefer more than 2 DIMM slots anyway.

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

Thank you for the replies.

Yes, that does make sense.

As said, even though are lower end boards, one would expect the 8pin one to have more power should I want to upgrade in the future and as @Tetras says, maybe the VRMs are a little better, who knows.

Infact, screw it, am going to go full ATX, am finding at budget price, mATX has too many compromises. A single fan header is a joke and would prefer more than 2 DIMM slots anyway.

Plenty of mATX boards out there with more fan headers and ram slots, mine is mATX has 4 fan headers, 4 rams slots and 2 NVME slots.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Plenty of mATX boards out there with more fan headers and ram slots, mine is mATX has 4 fan headers, 4 rams slots and 2 NVME slots.

Oddly, I was looking at the AsRock PRO4 earlier and will probably get that one

£20 more than what I was looking at but seems a well specced board.