PLEASE MOVE TO GEN HARDWARE

[tapir]

Hello all,

Today I received a new 660W PSU (enermax) that I bought on eBay. The thing is huge and the build quality is obviously very high. However it has only got 24, 8 and 6 pin molex connectors to go into the motherboard, no traditional 4 pin connector. Looking at the 8 pin connector it looks like it's just two 4pin connectors joined together. Can i just plug half of the 8 pin connector into the 4 pin slot on my motherboard, or will this blow up my motherboard? I think I've seen 8-->4 pin converters for sale but my new video card is in tomorrow so I want to fire my rig back up. Obviously not if it's going to mean the death of my motherboard, though


Thanks for the advice

 

[Derektm]

Yes you can break the 8 pin connector apart and just plug 4 pins in.

 

[tapir]

Sweet. Does it matter which side gets plugged into the 4pin?

Also there is a 6pin connector which matches the pinout for my old 7900GTX. If my new card (8800GTS) has the same power input can I just plug the 6 pin directly into the video card?

 

[krylon]

Shipping kills the deal

 

[Alone]

In for one, thanks OP!

 

[tapir]

wha... how did this get in hot deals? i could have sworn i put this in Gen. Hardware. whoops...?