what is that for

[Marcelo Valerio]

Hi!

 

Im almost finished to assembly my set up and Im not so sure if I have to connect something here 

or if I should leave it without anything connected to it

 

if I have to connect something which cable would or connection should I place there

 

ill upload a picture to help identify the problem

thanks in advance

[Lurick]

It used to be part of really old jumper style when you had to tell the drive the master, slave setup. There are rare use cases for the jumper still but 99% of the time you don't need it.

[Shreyas1]

I don't think you are supposed to put anything there.

[Marcelo Valerio]

thanks man!

i had no idea about  it

 

so i guess i probably wont be using it ;D

 

 

[Drak3]

That's for jumpers, and completely unneeded for most builds. Don't worry about connecting anything there.

[Marcelo Valerio]

by any chance would you know what is this?

and where should i connect it?

[Oshino Shinobu]

5 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

I don't think you are supposed to put anything there.

Depends on the system. They're there for a reason, just very few systems actually require them anymore. 

 

They're jumper pins for Reduced Power Spinup (two left pins) and Spread Spectrum Clocking (two right pins). 

 

You don't see them on SSDs because RPS and SSC aren't related to solid state storage. 

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

by any chance would you know what is this?

and where should i connect it?

 

 

Molex connector (with only two pins, for providing power to something, possibly a fan controller if it's from your case, or lighting). 

 

You'd connect it to a molex connector from your PSU. They'll look similar to SATA power cables in that they'll have multiple connectors in a series on a single cable. 

 

EDIT: Also, thanks for using in-focus and in frame pictures. So many times it's a matter of "What's this?", followed by a blurry picture of something black, half cut off in the corner of the picture. 

[Marcelo Valerio]

@Oshino Shinobu man you spoke alien to me right know no idea what you sad about the stuff, but it sounds really cool

it made me wish to do some research on what you sad so i can grasp a little bit better what you have just sad up there

 

and about the second picture

 

by any chance it would connect into something like this?

[DocSwag]

2 minutes ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

@Oshino Shinobu man you spoke alien to me right know no idea what you sad about the stuff, but it sounds really cool

it made me wish to do some research on what you sad so i can grasp a little bit better what you have just sad up there

 

and about the second picture

 

by any chance it would connect into something like this?

Molex connectors can be connected to your power supply and usually can be adapted to something else (sata power, pcie 6 pin, etc.). Most likely you won't need to worry about it.

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

@Oshino Shinobu man you spoke alien to me right know no idea what you sad about the stuff, but it sounds really cool

it made me wish to do some research on what you sad so i can grasp a little bit better what you have just sad up there

 

and about the second picture

 

by any chance it would connect into something like this?

If it's about the RPS and SSC jumpers, you really don't need to know about it. Anything half recent isn't going to need them. Honestly, I'm surprised they're still included on modern drives, I don't think drive manufacturers even include the jumpers for them. 

 

Yep. By the looks of things it's for the fan controller built into the case. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Molex connectors can be connected to your power supply and usually can be adapted to something else (sata power, pcie 6 pin, etc.). Most likely you won't need to worry about it.

But the thing he's plugging in is also a molex connector, no adapting going on, just molex to molex. From the looks of it, it's for a fan controller built into the case, given that the wires run up to the front panel. 

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

But the thing he's plugging in is also a molex connector, no adapting going on just molex to molex. 

Oops, got confused. In that case just plug the thing into the other thing  

[Marcelo Valerio]

i think it is for the fun stuff

 

ill connect the thing into the thing

and then into the power supply 

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

ll connect the thing into the thing

and then into the power supply 

PC building in a nutshell really. Connect thing A to thing B. 

[Marcelo Valerio]

the other thing that i would like to know is

in my motherboard there is a 3.1 2nd gen usb connector

what do i have to do to take advantage of it

because with the case and motherboad cables i´m not sure that i saw anythig that i could connected to that and replace the ports 2.0 for this one

 

any suggestion on adapter that i should buy

or maybe any cable that maybe came along with my motherboard or case

that i should be searching for

the case is a corsair 780t and the motherboard is asus z370e

[Oshino Shinobu]

9 minutes ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

the other thing that i would like to know is

in my motherboard there is a 3.1 2nd gen usb connector

what do i have to do to take advantage of it

because with the case and motherboad cables i´m not sure that i saw anythig that i could connected to that and replace the ports 2.0 for this one

 

any suggestion on adapter that i should buy

or maybe any cable that maybe came along with my motherboard or case

that i should be searching for

the case is a corsair 780t and the motherboard is asus z370e

 

If you're case has 5.25" bays at the front, you could buy a 5.25" front bay panel that has USB 3.1 Gen 2 (most of the time they'll be USB Type C). If not, you should be able to find an add in card that sits in a PCI bracket and connects to the header. 

 

There's still very little that uses the new header, so you haven't really got many options. I can only seem to find PCI brackets that connect to the header, so it's going to be at the back of the case. There's already 2 3.1 Gen 2 ports at the back of the case (One Type A and one Type C) so unless you really need 3 3.1 Gen 2 ports, I wouldn't bother with it. You can try looking around for 3.1 Gen 2 5.25" panels, but I can't seem to find any. 

 

Something like this https://www.amazon.com/Front-Header-Type-C-Female-Extension/dp/B074XQRY1N/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1513448235&sr=1-5&keywords=USB+3.1+Front+Panel+Header

[Marcelo Valerio]

@Oshino Shinobu thanks a lot man!

and thank you very much everybody that assisted me in the process of build my very first pc

now I only have left is to install my gpu and the blueray reader and see if my pc will start without exploding ;D