Rule #1 Harassment of others is strictly forbidden.If needed, you can message the team behind PCMR.įor an in-depth explanation of our rules don't forget to check our rules wiki page.Owning a console does not necessarily make you a 'peasant'.You can be banned if you conduct yourself like that here. We are not a community where members feign stupidity when posting and commenting because they find it funny. We are a community where many of its members share similar opinions about the main topics, and sometimes end up having private jokes amongst ourselves. This is a normal subreddit with occasional tongue-in-cheek humor elements. This is not a satirical or 'circlejerk subreddit'.It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR.This includes build help, tech support, and any kind of doubt one might have about PC ownership. Every kind of PC related content is welcome here.Everybody is welcome here, even those that have yet to ascend.Begin your ascension today! General Information I'm not worried about power draw since I don't plan on overclocking my Q6600.Official Subreddit of the PC Master Race We're the largest community of PC enthusiasts on the Internet. I find it odd that the 8-pin doesn't work and the 4-pin does, but I guess if it's not broken, don't fix it.Īny idea why the 4 pin would work and the 8 pin wouldnt? I didn't think twice about it until I read your post about it happening to someone else. ![]() I normally use the 8 pin connector on my graphics card, along with another 6 pin (GTX280) but since I'm replacing the motherboard, I tried booting it without the graphics card installed to see if the 8-pin was indeed required - thus, I tried the 8-pin since it was the proper shape for the motherboard. The 8-pin connector on my PSU (it's actually a 6 pin with a piggyback of 2 extra pins) plugged into the motherboard's CPU 8-pin slot kept my computer from booting. I replaced my old microATX motherboard with an EVGA 680i (used, but witnessed working). I presume it's because I never use the modular PSU's, but all the PC's I build with a 4-pin connector in the 8-pin slot all work - so if it ain't broke why fix it? It is strange though how there is never any mention of this in the manuals (if you look at the pin layout in the manual though you can kind of figure it out, but it's not very clear). I had one person I went to and I couldn't believe how much they'd got running off a 300w PSU and wondered why it had gone - 2 internal hard drives, 2 DVD drives, and 4 external hard drives, USB ADSL modem, mobile phone charging, and sat nav charging (as well as the PC!!).īut even though I'm using such high powered PSU's I've never once yet come across an 8-pin connector on any of them, they all have the 4-pin and the 6-pin PCI-E connectors, but as of yet no 8-pin. I've built numerous ones with just the 4-pin connector on and no 8-pin.Īlso the PSU's I get always seem to come with 4-pin cables anyway - I always try and use 750w PSU's regardless of whether or not it's overkill for the PC I'm making (I'd rather the person have more power there, especially when they start plugging things into the USB ports like sat-navs, and mobile phones, and external hard drives and forget how much extra power all these things are pulling from the main PSU!) - also a lower wattage PSU might be running at it's limit and burn out faster (like trying to drive a car all the time at it's top engine speed!). I then built a few computers with this on, the first one I came across whilst actually building a new PC had a plastic cover over the extra 4 pins. ![]() ![]() I removed the connector, re-plugged the 4-pin connector back in and it started working again fine (why they didn't do that themselves is beyond me?). I've built a number of PC's now with this, the first one I came across was someone who'd built their own PC, had it running with just 4-pins, got a convertor for it, and ever since they added the convertor the PC stopped booting, so they called me out to take a look at it.
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