Anyone know what the name of the square 12v PSU plug that goes into some motherboards is called? Just Im looking to buy one but not sure what its called. Also does anyone know what v wires go where in this plug? Ive got an old PSU which Im wanting to use but it doesnt have this 12v plug on it so my idea is to just chop one of the molexs off and rewire to this new square plug. Anyone know if thats possible? Not sure if this should be in modding Cheers.
I'm pretty sure that's the P4 power plug, used to power something on a P4 processor presumably. Not completely sure though.
Yeah I was asking the techie bloke at work the other day and thats what he said, but I have them on both my socket A board and 754 board. Ive just set up my 754 board earlier on this evening and it said in the manual I had to connect it. Ta Pete.
P=IV thats the begger responsible for those extra wires. while it was introduced, in the 'P4' update of ATX, its used on virtually all. i have a dual XEON system, each CPU can take about 80whatts. so 160=IV take I to be 12 or 5, it depends on the mobo this as most of the voltage control is now done by the mobo, so the 12v header was provided to address the need. The current becomes very high, and as such you need a hefty power supply, a wire that won't get hot. this is even more important on the motherboard.
