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I just got new parts in for an upgrade, I'm having an issue with the CPU power connectors. 

Motherboard is a gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Ice rev1 and a i5 14600kf.

 

There's 2 8 pin connectors for the CPU. 

 

But my PSU, Corsair RM850x only has 3 connectors for pcie/CPU, and I'm using 2 of those for the 4070ti.

 

Can I use only 1 8pin connector for the CPU?

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EPS is for CPU, and PCIe is for GPU,

 

RM 850x should have 2 EPS 4+4 cables

 

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Ryzen 5 5600 |16GB DDR4 3200Mhz | B450 | GTX 1080 ti [further details on my profile]

PC configs I used before:

  1. Pentium G4500 | 4GB/8GB DDR4 2133Mhz | H110 | GTX 1050
  2. Ryzen 3 1200 3,5Ghz / OC:4Ghz | 8GB DDR4 2133Mhz / 16GB 3200Mhz | B450 | GTX 1050
  3. Ryzen 3 1200 3,5Ghz | 16GB 3200Mhz | B450 | GTX 1080 ti
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1 hour ago, HolaImBob said:

I just got new parts in for an upgrade, I'm having an issue with the CPU power connectors. 

Motherboard is a gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Ice rev1 and a i5 14600kf.

 

There's 2 8 pin connectors for the CPU. 

 

But my PSU, Corsair RM850x only has 3 connectors for pcie/CPU, and I'm using 2 of those for the 4070ti.

 

Can I use only 1 8pin connector for the CPU?

RM850x has 2 connectors for CPU and then 3 others PCie connectors

Pretty sure of it as I have one and use all of them 🙂

 

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