I have a PSU that only has a 4 pin connector for the CPU connector on my motherboard. The motherboard supports 8pin EPS ATX12V, so would it be safe to use a molex male adapter to a 4pin CPU power connector? In other words, making a 4+4 ATX12V using the 4pin connected directly to the PSU and a molex adapter for the other 4 pins. I tried seeing if anyone has done this but I had no luck in finding a similar situation. Is this a safe idea? I want to overclock my cpu so I think the addition 4pins being used would make it more stable.
As you can see the PSU says eps12v but newegg messed that part up.. So I guess its not really a good idea to have the 2 4pin rails come from different sources then? I know for a fact that there are adapters from 2 male molex to 8pin ATX12V so I thought it would be possible to try what I was thinking, but I'm not gonna risk it if its never been done before. Besides my cpu isn't too powerful, but I want to overclock it when my build is finished (should be today). People are getting a 100% overclock so I thought having the extra 4pins would make it more stable.
First, there's no way your CPU needs the 8 pins of current, 4 will be plenty even at a massive overclock. As for the adapter, I misundertood -- I thought you were planning to make your own. You've got a good PS, so it should be able to support an adapter, but I still wouldn't do it.
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i had a similar problem i just plugged the 4 pin in...but i am only using one core...cant figure out why because ive now got an 8 pin in and still only using 1 core.
