4 Pin to 8 Pin

[Kravatie1]

I've built a PC for someone and i want to do a quick test boot

 

But the PSU is 4 Pin for CPU power and the motherboard is 8 Pin for CPU power,

 

I do have a 4 Pin to 8 Pin adapter coming soon but as a test boot would i be able to run an AMD Athlon 860K on the 4 pin temporarily or is it not worth the risk?

 

btw the PSU is 500W 

[SLAYR]

The worst thing that would happen is the board not booting, or the system crashing under high cpu load.

[scobie56]

using my bored and my CPU i had my 4690k running on 4 pin power for a long time it should be fine but like @SLAYR said the worst thing that will happen is it will not post, boot, or be stable at high loads

 

[Kravatie1]

thanks

 

i'll try it now and see what happens

[MajorJRL73]

Yes and in fact the 4 pin to 8 pin is not going to necessarily be better anyways due to it still being a 4 pin. Just in case you weren't sure the 4 pin goes in the middle 4 pins with 2 pins on each side. 

[SLAYR]

7 minutes ago, MajorJRL73 said:

Yes and in fact the 4 pin to 8 pin is not going to necessarily be better anyways due to it still being a 4 pin. Just in case you weren't sure the 4 pin goes in the middle 4 pins with 2 pins on each side. 

No the 4 pin would sit on one of the sides, an eight pin is split in exactly in half to be used on boards with a just a 4pin, also because the connector wouldn't be keyed right to fit in the middle.

[Kravatie1]

it works

 

just the CPU is rather hot