10 year old power supply and ryzen 5 2600

[mau rice]

hey guys,

i broke my old motherboard destroyed the bios after 12 year in use... dont ask how i did it..

i invested in new hardware and wanted to save money and did not buy a new powersupply so the situation :

mainboard with 8 pin power supply          and            a powersupply with 2 x 4 pin and 1x 6 pin

can i use the 2 x 4 pin to power my cpu?

 

thanks guys

 

powersupply from corsair 450 W

Mainboard : Gigabyte aurous gaming b450

[3 Lions]

What PSU is it? 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

What PSU is it? 

If it has 8 pins for motherboard power, it's probably a proprietary Dell something or other.

[Fasauceome]

6 minutes ago, mau rice said:

wanted to save money and did not buy a new powersupply

A 12 year old, proprietary power supply needs to be chucked, sorry. Saving money should be secondary to ensuring your components don't get busted. Spend $40 or more on a decent PSU, it's worth saving for.

[Stefan Payne]

28 minutes ago, mau rice said:

and did not buy a new powersupply so the situation

Big mistake.

You must not combine old Power Supplys with modern components. That's asking for trouble and wanting to either destroy the stuff you have or have unnecessary Problems like random reboots, shutdowns, stuff like that.

[Guest]

23 hours ago, mau rice said:

powersupply from corsair 450 W

 

A Corsair 450W what?  That narrows it down to about four different models.

 

Either way... forget it.  I don't care who makes the PSU.  If it's 10 years+ old and you don't know how to refurbish one yourself, it should be replaced.