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I'm building my first PC and noticed my motherboard has 2 8 pin power ports. My psu provided cpu power cable is a splitter cable. Do I use the splitter cable to connect both ports on the cpu, or do I use two separate 8 pin cables?

 

Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI

PSU: Thermaltake toughpower gf A3 750W

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I'm building my first PC and noticed my motherboard has 2 8 pin power ports. My psu provided cpu power cable is a splitter cable. Do I use the splitter cable to connect both ports on the cpu, or do I use two separate 8 pin cables?

 

Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI

PSU: Thermaltake toughpower gf A3 750W

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3 minutes ago, Umlauttt said:

 

I'm building my first PC and noticed my motherboard has 2 8 pin power ports. My psu provided cpu power cable is a splitter cable. Do I use the splitter cable to connect both ports on the cpu, or do I use two separate 8 pin cables?

 

Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI

PSU: Thermaltake toughpower gf A3 750W

What CPU do you have? It is almost never necessary, as one 8 pin is usually enough.

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Blue will go to most graphics cards. Red will go to one of the 2 8 pin power ports. Plug both parts of the 4+4 pin connector into the same 8 pin power port.

A cable that goes from 1 8 pin to 2 6+2 pin connectors on the other side like these will always go to a GPU and not the motherboard.

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I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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8 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

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Blue will go to most graphics cards. Red will go to one of the 2 8 pin power ports. Plug both parts of the 4+4 pin connector into the same 8 pin power port.

A cable that goes from 1 8 pin to 2 8 pin connectors on the other side like these will always go to a GPU and not the motherboard.

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This is the cable I have, will it work for both CPU power ports.

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Just now, Umlauttt said:

This is the cable I have, will it work for both CPU power ports.

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That's the right cable

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

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CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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