Can I safely use a PSU with an ATX 12v 4-pin for a board that has a EPS 12v 8-pin?
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There's many similar questions to this, and because the answers vary depending on the setup, I want to ask for my friend's specific setup. He recently upgraded to a Core i5 gaming build, so he has this leftover build composed of some old parts he has lying around: Intel Core2Duo E8400 stock speed 3…
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Information: Page 16 of the manual to the motherboard says that the 8-pin connector is for supplying power to the CPU. Method 1: If you look at the pinout of the 8-pin socket and the 4-pin cable (figures 1 and 2 below respectively), you will notice …
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