OPB, a question about your Neo4 + booster setup.

[Brum Man]

Hello.

I posted this qustion in another thread but it got a bit lost. I see that you have a Neo Nforce 4 board and are using an OCZ boster on it. The question that I have is that the Neo has a 24 pin ATX socket does it not? But the booster only has a 20 pin connector that takes the supply to the booster. So do you have a 20 pin or 24 pin powers supply, and if you have a 24 pin one is there any mod you have done that has allowed you to take all 24 pins of the power supply to the motherboard socket, eg made up a new connector for the booster?

Cheers.

[Onepagebook]

ok..you can try that or ask OPP if that's true,
20 pin atx power can still plug in the 24 pin atx mobo..
only a way to plug in , you can't go wrong with that!;)

[Brum Man]

So I yake it you have a 20 pin power supply?

I see what you are saying that it is ok to use a 20 pin power supply, but the main reason that I ask is that if I bought a 24 pin power supply, which I will be doing in the next month I would be a bit peeved if using the booster limited me to only using 20 of the 24 pins. If I have them there I would want to use them all.

Anyone with any suggerstions?

Thanks for your help

[thephenom]

So I yake it you have a 20 pin power supply?

I see what you are saying that it is ok to use a 20 pin power supply, but the main reason that I ask is that if I bought a 24 pin power supply, which I will be doing in the next month I would be a bit peeved if using the booster limited me to only using 20 of the 24 pins. If I have them there I would want to use them all.

Anyone with any suggerstions?

Thanks for your help
20 pin psu will work fine in a 24 pin socket, but I'm not sure if the 24 pin psu will work on the 20 pin booster.

[choseone214]

ok say you have an ocz 520 it uses a 24pin molex right. now the oputput of the booster is 20pins.. you can still plug this into a 24pin molex motherboard the other 4pins on the molex are jsut for stabilty..

on the gigabyte nf4 you can use a 20pin molex even though its a 24pin board..

is this what oyu wanted to know?

[OPPAINTER]

I use a 24 pin PSU and the 20 pin booster. Works for me.

OPP

[D_o_S]

Enermax has solved this problem well, because their 24 pin connector consists of 2 parts - the 20pin part and the 4 pin part. This way, you plug in th 4 pin part directly into the mobo...

http://www.enermax.com.tw/upload/clgcable1111.jpg

[Brum Man]

Enermax has solved this problem well, because their 24 pin connector consists of 2 parts - the 20pin part and the 4 pin part. This way, you plug in th 4 pin part directly into the mobo...

http://www.enermax.com.tw/upload/clgcable1111.jpgThis is what I wanted to see.

This way you can plug the 20 pin part of the power supply in to the booster, and then plug the other 4 pins (with the extra 3,5,12,ground), straight into the board, competly bypassing the booster! Now to mention it, I think I have heard that the OCZ powerstream has something like this.

[Onepagebook]

That's smart !:D
Sorry about misunderstanding.

[del_fuego]

Now to mention it, I think I have heard that the OCZ powerstream has something like this.

That is correct, same design.

[Brum Man]

Ok so we seem to have found a way around using all the 24 pinsof the ATX plug, even though the booster is only 24 pin. Buy a power supply where the 24 pins is in 2 parts, 20 pins and 4 pins.

Plug the 20 pin bit in the the booster supply and then the booster in to the mobo, and put the extra 4 pins directly in to the mobo.

But why don't OCZ re-thinnk the sesign of the booster power supply for the 24 pin power supplies, like ones that don't have the option of splitting the 24 pins in two.

Here's what I was thinking. The booster supply is basically a 20 pin --> 20 pin extension cable with the power cables for the molex plugs that go to the booster tagged in at one end. As below:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/eb01pjas/Peter.jpg

Would it not be possible to instead of using a 20-->20 pin cable, using a 24-->24 pin extension and then just tagging the cables in to the same pins that they are currently? This would then allow all the people usin 24 pin power supplies to easily use all of the 24 pins to supply power to the board.

I think I'm on a mission :p:

[googles]

This is what I wanted to see.

This way you can plug the 20 pin part of the power supply in to the booster, and then plug the other 4 pins (with the extra 3,5,12,ground), straight into the board, competly bypassing the booster! Now to mention it, I think I have heard that the OCZ powerstream has something like this.


yea thats a possible solution but will the additional 4 pin from psu be able to reach the socket on the mobo after connecting the 20 pins to the booster...guess its going to be a mess of wires around the atx header

[Brum Man]

Yeh I see waht you mean if the cables are attatched all the way down, you may not be able to get the extra reach needed. I guess I'll find out in the next few days, when I order my new ATX2.0 OCZ Powerstream. It is going to be a proper mess though, like you say around the Plug!!

Still nothingto be heard from the OCZ guys? Don't you like me! :)