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08-24-2007 at 05:29:30 AM

Currently have a Asus P5K Premium mobo with a Thermaltake 700W PSU. The mobo has a 8 pin auxliary connector where 4 of the 8 pins have a removable cap on them. My PSU comes with both a 4pin and 8 pin connector. What's the recommended pin to use? My mobo states it can take either a 4 pin or an 8 pin (with the 4 covered pins uncapped). I read that by default going 4 pin is the best and you go 8 for SLI purposes (gives the mobo more power from the way it was explained to me). This is a P35 board so no SLI'ing will be happening. What pin do you recommend i attach? The 4 or 8? Or does it even matter.

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n°1741152
08-24-2007 at 07:09:06 AM

Even being the fact that it will run off 4pin... I would have though that if you have a PSU with an 8pin connector this would be a no brainer...
Plug the 8pin in and give the board the power support it really wants (and designed) to have.


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08-24-2007 at 08:28:46 AM

What chookman said.


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08-25-2007 at 03:14:49 AM

You'll see Intel boards with the same connector (meaning it has nothing to do with SLI).

 

It's really for spreading out the load on the PSU for the CPU.

 

Bottom line: if you have it, it doesn't hurt using it.


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