Hi all. My new board has a 8 pin EPS but there's also a 4 pin too which apparently aids in higher overclocks. The PSU I am looking at only has a 8 pin but has plenty of power. I have an old 4 pin I cut off the PSU of an old P4 Dell machine.. Could I make a Molex - 4 pin? It looks like it's two 12v and two ground.
Sometimes they do yes but there's only one. The board has two, an 8 pin and a 4 pin. You connect the 8 pin for regular use and the 4 pin when using high overclocks (ed. Both at the same time). The board has a 8+2+2 power stage.
i believe you can do what you're describing but you may need more than one molex, I'm sure we sold adaptors for older PSUs in the shop i worked in years ago, back when boards first started to add additional power connectors.
molex is two grounds a 12v and a 5v. I personally wouldn't want to risk it just in case as youd'd be pulling power down 1 wire rather than two.
You could probably knock up a couple of molex -> EPS 4-pin loom quite easily though - perhaps two Molex -> EPS 4-pin, to split the load? It would be worth knowing which PSU rail (if more than one 12v rail) supplies each of the molexes/EPS 4-pin Else, if it'll juice 3 GPUs (six PCI-E power), what about an adapter from a surplus PCI-E 6-pin?
Thanks for the info guys ! I was going to do a dual molex to the two 12v and ground. Yeah I've seen them. I may aswell wait and see if an 8 pin can go in with the rest overhanging. I've done that a few times in the past but a couple of times there's been something in the way of it going in down the side Also guys.. The PSU I'm hoping to get has a single 12v rail so there's no guessing involved
