To create backwards compatibility most modern power supplies allow you to disconnect the last 4 pins of the main connector. It is also possible to create forward compatibility by using an adapter.
In total there are ober 12 versions of the ATX standard, but they are so similar that you do not need to worry about compatibility With the introduction of ATX12 V2.0 are change was made to a system with a 24-pins connector. If you don’t 75W will flow through your Molex cable. This reduces the risk of overloading your power supply. Please make sure you connect both molex to different cable strains. Need another PCI-6 pin cable to power your graphics card? Use the “2x Molex to 1x PCI-E 6-pin” adapter. Old power supply unit or simply lacking the required number of SATA power connectors? Use a Molex to SATA connector to power your latest hard disk drive. Basically they were superseded by the USB stick. For those of you who do not remember these were square magnetic disks that could contain up to 1.44 MB of data.
These guys were used to power floppy disk drives. Mini-Molex / Floppy connectorĬompletely obsolete, but some PSU’s still come with a mini-molex connector. Thanks to their L-shape the SATA power connector can only connected the right way. All modern DVD-players, hard disk drives and SSD’s are powered by SATA power. The SATA connector is the guy that made the Molex obsolete. Keep in mind that they can be extremely difficult to detach. Thanks to its angular side you cannot go wrong when connecting a Molex cable. However their power draw is limited so nowadays most of their purpose has been replaced by PCI-E cables and SATA cables. Even some graphics cards like the Geforce 7800 GS were equipped with Molex. In the past these guys were often used to connect Hard drives, CD-ROM players, etc. Molex connectors have been around for a very long time and can deliver 5V (red) or 12V (Yellow) to hardware peripherals. With it’s 8 pins this connector can provide up to 150W per cable. A graphics card with a single 6+2-pin connector can draw up to 225W (75W from the motherboard + 150W from the cable). More expensive graphic cards require the 6+2 pin PCI-E connector. So if your Graphic card contains a single 6-pin connectors it can draw up to 150W (75W from the motherboard + 75W from the cable). The PCI-E 6-pin connector can supply an additional 75W per cable. The left 2 pins of the 6+2 pin connector on the right is detached to provide backwards compatibility with 6-pin graphic cards. To solve that issue the PCI-E connector was introduced. Faster dedicated graphics cards require much more power. The motherboard can provide a maximum of 75W through its PCI-E interface slot. It is also possible that your 8-pin cable can be split into two segments to provide backwards compatibility with cheaper motherboards. Obviously you only need to use one of these cables. Most PSU’s provide two cables one with 4-pins and one with 8-pins. For regular usage there is absolutely no need for the additional pins. The extra 4 pins ensure that enough power can be provided to the cpu when overclocking. More expensive “overclocking” motherboards have 8-pin connectors. Nowadays it is the P4, or EPS connector, to provide the cpu with power.Ĭheap motherboards are equipped with a 4-pins connector. With overclocked cpu’s drawing as much as 200W a need to provide power directly to the CPU was created. P4 (EPS Connector)Īt some point in time the motherboard’s pins were no longer sufficient to provide the processor (cpu) with power. A 24-pins cable is backwards compatible with a 20-pins motherboard, often this cable can be split into 20- and 4-pins (like in the image above).
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