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Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:07:21 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Power Supply Help Needed...?

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Some gamer-type video cards require a 4-pin power connector. My PCP&C
supply has two such for connection to dual video cards in a SLI
configuration, as well as an extra SIX-pin for the motherboard. Tied off
'cuz I will never have such a setup. I'm not a gamer! Martin would have
to look at the PS & mobo manuals.

Ray Davison wrote:
> Steven Levine wrote:
>> In <4706CCF6.5010303@charter.net>, on 10/05/07
>> at 04:47 PM, Ray Davison said:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> And then what are you going to put in the four pin on the MB? Di
>>> Tyan tell you to just leave it open?
>>
>> I suspect Martin is confused. The 4-pin connector is square. The 24-pin
>> connector is straight-line, just like the 20-pin connector.
>
> There are twenty pin and twenty four pin MB connectors. Some PSs have a
> twenty pin and a four pin that clips on the end of the twenty. If the
> MB has a twenty you just leave off the four.
>
> The last bunch of PSs I got have a twenty pin, a four that clips on the
> end, and another four pin in parallel with the first on a longer cable.
> MB vendors put that four pin sometimes near the twenty and sometimes
> far away. But I would expect a total of twenty four. Martin says his
> has twenty eight. Not using all the connectors from the PS is common.
> Not using all the pins on the MB is not.
>
> Ray

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Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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