motherboard power supply?

[SephirothPD]

Just ordered my new system. But im a bit confused about which or both 12v ports on the mother board to use. The new boards have the old port and a new 4 pin one.
Dont want to fry my cpu but at the same time i dont want it crashing due to lack of power. Can some one clear this up for me.. thanks

 

[xeenrecoil]

heya Sephiroth;

With the introduction of the p4 intel decided the p4 would need more stable power so it introduced a new standard for ATX, which included a second 12v power plug, its a square 4-pin plug, some manufactures also use what they call an "easy plug" which is a standard Molex plug which circumvents requiring a special "P4 Ready" power supply. AMD later adopted this standard as their own to fill their ever increasing power consumption needs. Now if your motherboard has both the 4-pin square plug, and the "easy plug" DO NOT plug in both at the same time. However one of them will be required for normal power operations.

 

[SephirothPD]

thanks for replie, but im still abit confused. Is the easy plug something like 12 pins long. Therefore i can use either the long plug or the 4 pin plug to power my board....???

 

[Crashman]

There are no 12-pin long 12v supplemental power connections. How OLD is this board you're refering to, is it AT or something?

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[SephirothPD]

was just geusing at 12 pin. Im just on about the standard ATX power cable. My new board has that and a 4 pin one...
Do I use one or both?

 

[jlanka]

both

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[SephirothPD]

cheers

 

[Worf101]

My ASUS A8V Deluxe requires that BOTH the 20 and the 4 pin power lines be plugged in at the same time or the system will NOT boot. I just changed HSF units so I know exactly what's in there and both are hooked up now. So go fig?

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[ChipDeath]

Always Both.

OH yeah - RTFM!

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[Crashman]

OK, a quick rundown:
ATX: 20-pin double row
newer server style ATX: 24-pin double row
ATX 12v: 4-pin square
AT: 12-pin flat, 2 connectors
older server supplemental power: 6-pin flat (same style as 1 AT connector).

Now, YOUR board should have the standard 20-pin ATX and 4-pin ATX12v connectors. You would use both.

If you had an older server board, you'd use the 20-pin and 6-pin.

If you had an older Dell board, you'd use the 20-pin and 6-pin, but you'd need a Dell power supply as well since Dell re-arranged the wires.

So it looks for you to be 20-pin and 4-pin.

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[xeenrecoil]

heh

There must be an illiteracy problem around the world, or perhaps its lack of general terms and knowledge, whatever the problem is, its definately annoying, i explain that the "easy plug" is a molex connector, and the guy doesnt know what a molex connector is when they have been around so long i cant even remember when they were actually introduced, over 10 years for sure.
I thought I gave a detailed explaination, I dunno I cant figure it...