installing 8 pin ATX on ASUS H170-M plus motherboard.

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
A

Aniket Awati

Reputable
Oct 25, 2014
22
0
4,510
I want to installing 8 pin ATX connector on my ASUS H170-M plus motherboard with CPU i5 6402p RAM crucial 8 GB DDR 4.I m running Nvidia GT 610 2 GB graphics card on this ASUS board and components.Whole build working fine with 4 pin ATX.My pc build genuinely need 8 pin ATX power for working more effectively with this graphics card?
 
Solution
Aeacus
The 8-pin EPS cable is for additional stable power for CPU and that's needed when you: 1. OC your CPU 2. Have higher TDP CPU, starting from 95W e.g Core i7.
Since you have Core i5 in there which is 65W and you can't OC it, it works just fine with only 4-pin EPS power cable connected.
Sort by date Sort by votes
Aeacus

Aeacus

Titan
Ambassador
Mar 21, 2015
11,822
1,674
80,390
The 8-pin EPS cable is for additional stable power for CPU and that's needed when you: 1. OC your CPU 2. Have higher TDP CPU, starting from 95W e.g Core i7.
Since you have Core i5 in there which is 65W and you can't OC it, it works just fine with only 4-pin EPS power cable connected.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom