Soldato
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I'm just in the process of building my new PC and it's been a good while since I did anything with power supplies and I've never dealt with some of the newer things like multiple PCIe sockets on GPUs, I've also never used a modular PSU before either so I'd like a little guidance if I may
Motherboard lead
This one I'm ok with, the two plugs go into the two sockets they're next to in the PSU and the big one the other end goes on the motherboard.
CPU lead
This one I feel reasonably confident with, one end plugs into one of the PCIe/CPU sockets on the PSU that sit below the big motherboard socket, the other end goes into ATX12v1 on the motherboard
I have a second one of these CPU leads, and I think I'm right in thinking I could plug it into the other CPU socket on the PSU and then split the other end and put the resulting 4 pin plug into ATV12v2 on the motherboard but this is optional and more if you are planning on doing power hungry overclocking etc? I'm not going be doing anything like that so I don't need to use this second lead right?
GPU leads
Now this is where I'm a little less certain. I have two PCIe leads with the PSU which have a solid 8 pin plug at one end which I can see goes into one of the PCIe sockets on the PSU (next to the smaller SATA sockets) what I'm a it unsure about is the the other end. This goes into a 6+2 pin plug and then in a y configuration into a second 6+2 pin plug. The GPU I have is a 6750XT and has two 8 pin sockets on it. Can I just use one of these PCIe leads and simply plug in both of the 6+2pin plugs into the GPU? I'm guessing that's ok, in the same way as you used to have molex leads with two or three connectors along it's length so you could power two or three devices, same with SATA?
Motherboard lead
This one I'm ok with, the two plugs go into the two sockets they're next to in the PSU and the big one the other end goes on the motherboard.
CPU lead
This one I feel reasonably confident with, one end plugs into one of the PCIe/CPU sockets on the PSU that sit below the big motherboard socket, the other end goes into ATX12v1 on the motherboard
I have a second one of these CPU leads, and I think I'm right in thinking I could plug it into the other CPU socket on the PSU and then split the other end and put the resulting 4 pin plug into ATV12v2 on the motherboard but this is optional and more if you are planning on doing power hungry overclocking etc? I'm not going be doing anything like that so I don't need to use this second lead right?
GPU leads
Now this is where I'm a little less certain. I have two PCIe leads with the PSU which have a solid 8 pin plug at one end which I can see goes into one of the PCIe sockets on the PSU (next to the smaller SATA sockets) what I'm a it unsure about is the the other end. This goes into a 6+2 pin plug and then in a y configuration into a second 6+2 pin plug. The GPU I have is a 6750XT and has two 8 pin sockets on it. Can I just use one of these PCIe leads and simply plug in both of the 6+2pin plugs into the GPU? I'm guessing that's ok, in the same way as you used to have molex leads with two or three connectors along it's length so you could power two or three devices, same with SATA?