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Psittac
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6 minutes ago, Psittac said:

Quick question, my motherboard has a eight pin and a four pin but the power supply only has two 8-pin cables. Can I plug in 1 8 to the eight pin? And can I also plug in an 8 pin to the four pin?

 

MB is gigabyte x870 eagle Wi-Fi 7

PSU is MSI mag a1000g pcie5

1x8pin will be enough unless you run a 7950X or 9950X at 100% load.

1x8pin can supply a continous load of 226w.

 

But yes. You can plug the 8 pin into the 4 pin and leave the half outside.

Not ideal of course.

 

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12 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

1x8pin will be enough unless you run a 7950X or 9950X at 100% load.

1x8pin can supply a continous load of 226w.

 

But yes. You can plug the 8 pin into the 4 pin and leave the half outside.

Not ideal of course.

 

There is a little evidence to support the lower resistance to the load gives more predictable voltages, and slightly better clocks(under PBO)

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2 minutes ago, Psittac said:

Turns out both of the 8-pin's could be split in half

yeah, that's standard 

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