Crosshair V Power connectors

[vingasolina]

Hi there

im looking at building a new system with the crosshair V with TB card and the FX-8150

but ive noticed it has 8 pin + 4 pin + 4 pin molex now my PSU only has 1 x 8 pin im not looking to overclock so i was wondering if it would work with only the 8 pin pluged in

also a little bit of info on what exacly the extra 4 pin and the molex are for would be apreciated.

thanks

[kkn]

i use 24, 8 and molex on mine

[wolverine7074]

I ran mine with a 4 pin pluged into the 8 pin header and a 4 pin in the 4 pin header and it ran fine
the molex is for SLI/Crossfire plug it in when you are running more than one GPU

[DaemonCantor]

I guess Asus made some confusion when making this Board. so here's the Simple solution so that you don't have to dig through a Year of Post just to find the Answer.

1) Plug in the 4+4(8pin)
2) Plug in the 20+4(24pin)
3) 4pin Molex(This isn't only supply for SLI/Crossfire, it's Additional Board Power for Stability)
4) if you OC or going to use the FX CPU plug in the other 4pin connector and if your PSU doesn't have it then Buy a Molex to ATX adapter. otherwise don't worry about it.

I hope this Helped.

[MrLarkins]

so , if I'm running a FX6100 and one GTX 680 then I should use the 24 pin plug, 8 pin plug, and the 4 pin plug, but NOT the molex plug...right?

Can I run the FX6100 (not OC) with just the 24 main and 8 pin and not the other 2?

Or

Do I need ALL power connectors b/c of the FX and GTX 680?

[wackywazup]

well if you are worried about it 100% you can buy a molex adapter that goes to atx4 pin so you can plug that 4 pin in but i belive that 4 pin is for overclocking the cpu and helping supply more power now if your running a new bulldozer cpu your gonna want that 8 pin pluged so if you dont plan to overclock that 4pin isnt needed

[wolverine7074]

I guess Asus made some confusion when making this Board. so here's the Simple solution so that you don't have to dig through a Year of Post just to find the Answer.

1) Plug in the 4+4(8pin)
2) Plug in the 20+4(24pin)
3) 4pin Molex(This isn't only supply for SLI/Crossfire, it's Additional Board Power for Stability)
4) if you OC or going to use the FX CPU plug in the other 4pin connector and if your PSU doesn't have it then Buy a Molex to ATX adapter. otherwise don't worry about it.

I hope this Helped.

sorry about the miss on the molex connector I thought it was for the SLI/Crossfire like it was on my older Asus A8N-SLI board I had