20pin on a 24pin mobo

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unsay may side effect if your mobo has 24pin and you are only using a 20pin psu. ug mo gamit kag 20pin to 24pin adapter unsa man sad ang iya advantage?

[EarlZ]

unsay may side effect if your mobo has 24pin and you are only using a 20pin psu. ug mo gamit kag 20pin to 24pin adapter unsa man sad ang iya advantage?

There should be a separate 4pin located somewhere else in the motherboard, that extra 4pin is used to supply additional 12v to the motherboard, if there isnt any and the board boots then its simply not required for operation.
On my end im using a 24Pin + 8pin + 4pin(molex) for the Abit IP35-E the extra 8pin ensures that the CPU gets a dedicated dual 12v line.

[parts]

paksita nimog mobo master earlz oi.,..ehehe..

[StyM]

currently using a 20pin psu on a 24pin mobo, its on my amd x2 3800+ system...
so far ok ang performance, never been turned off since may almost a year now...
system is on full load, currently doing distributed computing...

[EarlZ]

paksita nimog mobo master earlz oi.,..ehehe..

Its just your avg P35 chipset motherboard, E denotes the low end model of the series.

The 8pin and 4pin on my motherboard is totally optional and is not required for the entire system to run.

[simoko]

most mboard manuals mo ingon na sila nga puede ra 20 pins psu interface...there is an instruction on how to plug the 20pins to the 24pins slot...wala ra man effect so far sa ako na try but kung dili ka comfortable then buy the 20-to-24pins adapter nalang...last time ni buy ko tag 200 man tingali tu...

[EarlZ]

True there are no side effects if the motherboard was designed for 20pin operation only.