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You only need the 8 pin eps. The other 4 pin isn't necessary and is only used for heavy overclocking. Which won't really happen with Ambient cooling. Plus the 8 pin eps can provide 384w of power easily. Which even a heavily overclocked 3950x won't reach. 

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I have a SeaSonic FOCUS 750 W 80+ Gold PSU, and a asus tuf x570 mobo, the mobo has a 8 plus 4 pin eatx, will this PSU work,and if so what cord goes into those plugs?

 

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You only need the 8 pin eps. The other 4 pin isn't necessary and is only used for heavy overclocking. Which won't really happen with Ambient cooling. Plus the 8 pin eps can provide 384w of power easily. Which even a heavily overclocked 3950x won't reach. 

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

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1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

You only need the 8 pin eps. The other 4 pin isn't necessary and is only used for heavy overclocking. Which won't really happen with Ambient cooling. Plus the 8 pin eps can provide 384w of power easily. Which even a heavily overclocked 3950x won't reach. 

Okay, cause I have a 3900x cpu but I dont really plan on overclocking it, thanks

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