Question about the ports on motherboards

Andy Green

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Dec 23, 2013
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Hi there.

I haven't upgraded my board in a couple of years, so i thought i would.

On the board i have already, there is the 25 pin for the power & another 4 pin port on another part of the board (for extra oomph i guess).

On the new board i am getting - instead if the four pin port, there is now an eight pin port.

My PSU hasnt got the connector for the eight pins, only four. Will it make much of a difference just plugging in the four pins. im guessing the other four are there if you use bigger GPUS etc and need the extra power.

I not new to pc's just not seen the eight pins on a board before