We had hard rubbish here last week. I didn't go to far afield looking for shopping, but someone just down the street turfed a thing in a case, and a second mobo in its box. Both have memory, bonus, 2x8gb sticks in one, and I think its a 4 in the other.

Never looked closely at an i5 age mobo before, its got some weird 6pin power connector on the mobo I've not seen before, so I'll have to poke through the extra bits n pieces and see if there's anything that suits.

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Never looked closely at an i5 age mobo before, its got some weird 6pin power connector on the mobo I've not seen before, so I'll have to poke through the extra bits n pieces and see if there's anything that suits.

Is that a Dell motherboard? I've been researching upgrading the video
card in my Optiplex 5070, and in order to support a video card with a
power connector I need a bigger power supply, and in order to do that I
need to get a power adapter from the power supply to a smaller pin
connector on the motherboard.



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Hi Spec,

On Saturday May 18 2024, Spectre said to Vorlon:

Never looked closely at an i5 age mobo before, its got some weird 6pin power connector on the mobo I've not seen before, so I'll have to poke through the extra bits n pieces and see if there's anything that suits.

Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin, and
then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

The only place I'v seen 6 pin connectors are on video cards, that require
more than the PCIe bus can supply. (-;

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On 19 May 2024, Vorlon said the following...

Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin, and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

as pF mentioned, it's probably a dell machine with their wonky PSU. there are a few videos on youtube showing how to make adapter cables or doing case/power supply swaps that need the adapter

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Is that a Dell motherboard? I've been researching upgrading the video
card in my Optiplex 5070, and in order to support a video card with a power connector I need a bigger power supply, and in order to do that I need to get a power adapter from the power supply to a smaller pin connector on the motherboard.

Ahh no, although I'm using a Optiplex 990 for the daily compute. She's an ASROCK mobo with some kind of i5 installed in it. Seems weird to supply
extra 12v to the mobo to supply a video card. A lot of the cards require a seperate 12v from the supply directly. For which the adapters are around out there.

This thing has a 6pin molex on the mobo, will be the extra 12v for the CPU I expect given its location. But while I've come across 2 and 4 pin variants before I've not seen this 6..

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Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin, and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

Its closer to the CPU than the bus so it could I guess supply both.
Definitely got the standard ATX header.. If in doubt get the manual out, yes it came with those too :) Its listed as ATX 12v, current test supply doesn't have it available. Definitely closer to the CPU than the BUS.

The more interesting part originally was that both have extra memory :) All DDR3

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Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin,
and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

To which Bf2K+ replies...

My new Gigabyte MB has an 8-pin power connector instead of the 4-pin...
but you can plug a 4-pin connector into it if that is what your ATX power supply has...

It seems to me that I ahve also seen 6-pin connectors on some MBs but I
might be mistaken...

I know my ATX power supply has the 8-pin connector that can be split in
half to give you 4-pins if that is what your mb needs.


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Ahh no, although I'm using a Optiplex 990 for the daily compute. She's
an ASROCK mobo with some kind of i5 installed in it. Seems weird to supply extra 12v to the mobo to supply a video card. A lot of the cards require a seperate 12v from the supply directly. For which the adapters are around out there.

Yeah, right - I'm not sure what I was thinking. I've bought off-lease
Dells for the past 10+ years and not messed with the innards, I'm way
out of touch. Was given a video card with a 4 and 6-pin power
connector, apparently some people power them off of SATA power but have
concerns about it. I'll stick with a GTX 1030 for the time being.

I think I want to go back to building from scratch again with my next
PC, but I've got some learning to do.




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Yeah, right - I'm not sure what I was thinking. I've bought off-lease Dells for the past 10+ years and not messed with the innards, I'm way
out of touch. Was given a video card with a 4 and 6-pin power
connector, apparently some people power them off of SATA power but have concerns about it. I'll stick with a GTX 1030 for the time being.

I haven't seen a card with the extra power requirements come past in recent times. #1 Son gave me a GTX 1050ti to meet min specs for a game he wants to play with, it doesn't require extra power either. In the past I've generally just used an adapter on a regular SATA line.

I was also have a moment of either dyslexia, poor eyesight ( a given these days), or both, but it is in fact an 8 pin header, not 6.. probably added to the confusion.for what its also worth, the 4 pin supply isn't sufficient to
get it powered up either.

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Hi spec,

On Sunday May 19 2024, Spectre said to Vorlon:

Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin,
and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

Its closer to the CPU than the bus so it could I guess supply both. Definitely got the standard ATX header.. If in doubt get the manual
out, yes it came with those too :) Its listed as ATX 12v, current test supply doesn't have it available. Definitely closer to the CPU than the BUS.

Oh ATX12v. I haven't seen one of those since the initial P4 release from
Intel. The newer mb's don't have or need that. You *will* require the use of that power connector (Unless the manual say's otherwise).. It's been to long since having anything with those on 'em...



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Hi Fusion,

On Sunday May 19 2024, Fusion said to Vorlon:

Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin,
and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

as pF mentioned, it's probably a dell machine with their wonky PSU.
there are a few videos on youtube showing how to make adapter cables or doing case/power supply swaps that need the adapter

As spec reveiled in a latter message it's a "ATX 12v" connector. They are
for powering the CPU, and was initially release when Intel did the
first/second generation of P4 CPU's.

Yeah, both Dell and HP are guilty of using non-standard power connections
for there small form factor mb's...


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Hi Bf2k+,

On Sunday May 19 2024, Bf2k+ said to Vorlon:

Are you shure it's for power? There should be the normal atx 24 pin,
and then the cpu 4 pin near the cpu.

My new Gigabyte MB has an 8-pin power connector instead of the 4-pin...
but you can plug a 4-pin connector into it if that is what your ATX

[...]

half to give you 4-pins if that is what your mb needs.

ATX 12v, is a different beast! It's pins are all in a row and are to power
the extra juice that the initial P4's required.



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Hi Poindexter,

On Sunday May 19 2024, Poindexter Fortran said to Spectre:

Was given a video card with a 4 and 6-pin power
connector, apparently some people power them off of SATA power but
have concerns about it.

Alot of the newer video cards draw way more power and amp's than what the
PCIe bus can supply. So they come with a 4/6 pin power connector. A lot of
the newer PSU's have those power rails/leads for them now...

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