Motherboard Power Connection

[Ke1vin]

I got to the part in the book where I plug in the Power Connection to the motherboard.

I'm okay with plugging in the 24 Pin connector, but.... (See image below )

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[Nate152]

The 8 pin is mandatory, I don't know how stable your pc would be plugging a 4 pin into the 8 pin. The 4 pin is only needed for extreme overclocking but it won't hurt anything to connect them both.

Your psu has two 4+4 pin atx power cables, combine one to connect to the 8 pin and use half of the other to connect to the 4 pin.

[Ke1vin]

I just noticed there is a problem with the connector - to - socket pin key patterns.

The end of the cable that connects to the PSU socket matches the square and curved key pattern, however,
the other end that plugs into the mother board socket - only half of the connector matches the 8 Pin socket on the mother board.

The motherboard socket pattern is:
O [ ] [ ] O ( As seen looking into the connector )
[ ] O [ ] O

The cable pattern is:
O [ ] O O ( As seen from behind the connector as it would plug into the socket )
[ ] O O O

The other 4 Pin Mother board socket pattern is:
O [ ]
[ ] O

In summary, I have 2 cables with 8-Pin connectors that plug into the PSU fine, but the other side of the cables that plug into the mother board, only the left side of the connector matches the sockets on the mother board

Is it possible that if I plug in half of one cable connector into the 8 Pin socket and half of the other cable connector into the 4 Pin socket that the power requirements will be met?

This build could scar me for life...lol

[Ke1vin]

If you look at the picture from the manual, they show an example of connecting to only one side of the 8 Pin connector.
I wish Asus support wasn't so hard to get in touch with.. I tried and they have certain required entries like BIOS version and such, which I can't
get because nothing has power yet.

[Nate152]

It's ok you can still use the 4+4 pin to connect to the 8 pin, it doesn't need to match. It is keyed so it will only fit one way, a O shaped pin will fit into a square socket, but a square pin won't fit in a O shaped socket.

Go ahead and connect the 4+4 pin cable to the 8 pin cpu power connector, it should fit.

[Ke1vin]

And I won't need to connect anything to the smaller 4 Pin Socket?

Unless of course I want to OC at 50Ghz... LOL

Thanx so much Nate152

[Nate152]

You're welcome

Since you have power cables for both the 8 pin and 4 pin connect them both, it won't hurt anything and will ensure stability. If you ever decide to do any overclocking it's already connected. 🙂

[Ke1vin]

Nate152,
I don't know if you're into Star Citizen.. but, Oh Yeah I'm thinking OC-ing will be in my future.

[Nate152]

I don't have star citizen but I will certainly check that game out since you mentioned it.

Overclocking will give you more performance but if you're already hitting your monitors refresh rate there is no need to but I do anyway just because I can. The ROG boards are great overclockers and if you have good cooling and got a decent cpu from intel (all cpu's are not created equal and some will need more and some will need less voltage for the same speed) you should be able to hit 4.9GHz - 5.0GHz.

Once you get your pc together and want to venture in overclocking and would like some help, I'll gladly help you it's easy to overclock your cpu.

Since you brought it up here is my 3770k at 5.0GHz. Click on the picture a few times to make it bigger so you can read cpu-z and real temp.

[Nate152]

I don't have star citizen but I will have to check it out since you mentioned it. 🙂

Overclocking will give you more performance but if you're hitting your monitors refresh rate there really is no need to but I do because it's fun and I like to see what my pc is capable of. Once you get your pc together and want to venture into overclocking and need a hand I can help you, it's easy to overclock your cpu.

Here is my 3770k at 5.0GHz, click on the picture a couple times to make it bigger so you can read it.