Build concerning wiring:
Corsair 650hx
ASUS Maximus Formula III mobo
LianLi Lancool K62 case
I've got no idea what to do. I can't find any good guides on google, just simple things like "where does 'HD Audio' go," but I can't figure out the rest. Every guide I've found either barely applies to me or is from 2002 and backwards.
So I've got some cables springing from my case. "HD Audio" on basically the same cable as "AC 97." HDD LED, Power SW, and Power LED. I've got HD Audio and AC 97 sorted out. The last 3 are all 2 pin. No idea where they go.
From my power supply I have to coming from it 2 cables. I know where the 24 pin power cable goes to on my motherboard, but there's another cable. The 650hx's manual says it's 8 pin [I]and[/I] 4 pin, depending on what my motherboard has, as I can remove 4 of the 8 pins should I need to. Well my motherboard is misleading, it has 8 but originally 4 were covered by a rubber piece, and I'm under the impression that it would be bad if I plugged an 8 pin into it if it weren't mean to be.
And everything else. What else is there? What else do I need?
[url]http://www.pcityourself.com/building/frontPanelConnections.php[/url]
maybe this can help
Look at the Mobo and plug in the required cables. It really isn't difficult.
If you fail to do that, look at the manual that comes with the mobo.
[QUOTE=Encryption;26281921]Look at the Mobo and plug in the required cables. It really isn't difficult.
If you fail to do that, look at the manual that comes with the mobo.[/QUOTE]
"How do I do this?"
"Just do it"
Jesus christ every thread I make there's always at least one reply like this. Unhelpful. It obviously [I]is[/I] that difficult when A. I don't know what the "required cables" are, B. I can't just look at the mobo to figure out what to plug in and where and C. The manual is less than helpful.
at least for the computers that I have built, on the motherboard itself there were really small print that told me where to plug in the switches and stuff
[editline]25th November 2010[/editline]
here for example, this is my motherboard
[img]http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1681/captureai.png[/img]
see, if you look closely, you'll notice that it ways pled for power light, pwrbtn for power button, reset for obviously reset, and hdlet for HDD activity light. I'm pretty sure your motherboard will have something similar.
^^^
Winner.
Use your motherboards manual and/or other manuals from the products.
Awesome. It actually does. Like the rest of my motherboard, but it's at the very bottom in print twice as small as the rest, but it says basically that.
So, I've got my case's wires done. Plugged the 24 pin and 8 pin wires from my PSU to my mobo. Plugged my CPU heatsink's fan into "CPU_FAN."
Plugged my case's 4 fans into various 4 pins around my mobo. Plugged all of them into "CHA_FAN1" and upward to 3, then the 4th into "SYS_FAN." The fans themselves are 3 pins, although it seems like it's made to fit both. Is this a good or bad idea? My manuals don't say anything on what each individual fan input does (like the difference between SYS_FAN and CHA_FAN) and what I should do if my fans are 3 pin and the slots they should go into are 4 pin (4 male connectors sticking out, 3 female connectors going in).
Biggest question, how does my GPU work with power? My GPU is the GTX 580, it requires 1x 8-pin connector and 1x 6-pin connector from my PSU, but it doesn't specify exactly where I get these wires. My PSU only came with a bag of wires that don't seem to apply to me. My GPU manual says it came with the required wires, but it only came with 1x 8-pin to 2x 6 pin and 1x 6-pin to 2x some kind of weird connector that has 3 male sticking out, and one more bit where you'd think there'd be a male but instead there's just a black space.
Could I use the 2x 6-pin to 1x 8-pin (going into GPU) + 1x 6-pin to 2x 6-pin (from my PSU) to power the one 8-pin on the GPU, then I'm SOL on the 6-pin input the GPU requires, because my PSU didn't come with any 6-pin to 6-pin wires.
[editline]24th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=itsDivine;26284312]^^^
Winner.
Use your motherboards manual and/or other manuals from the products.[/QUOTE]
I have been. It's a bit of a challenge squeezing helpful info out of them but they've saved me a few times. For everything else I google. Google didn't even really help with wiring.
link to PSU?
because afaik any decent 550w+ PSU should have one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin
I'd resort to a local PC shop to be honest. It's probably 15 bucks to get it assembled, at least that's how much it is here.
[QUOTE=Jaehead;26284418]link to PSU?
because afaik any decent 550w+ PSU should have one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin[/QUOTE]
Corsair HX 650w
It doesn't have any simple 6-pin to 6-pin, only 6-pin to 2x 6-pin, would that work?
And it has nothing in 8 pin. So would my method of using the 1x 6-pin to 2x 6-pin + the adapter 2x 6-pin to 1x 8 pin into the GPU work?
Sorry, but I didn't really understand your question, so hopefully this will help
[img]http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3262/geforcegtx580power.jpg[/img]
the HX650 comes with four 6+2 PCI-E cables which look like this, I think all of them are modular cables so they'll be in a bag or something included with the PSU
[img]http://www.pleasureandpain.info/pci-e.jpg[/img]
for the 6 pin connector you just plug the 6 pin part in
for the 8 pin connector you clip the extra 2 pins hanging off to the side of the 6 pin part and plug the now 8 pin connector in
Should say in the manual for the motherboard where HD_AUDIO goes.
as for all the cables, you need
24 pin, goes into the right side of the motherboard
8 pin, goes in usually the top left of the motherboard, often comes as two 4 pin, in thsi case clip them together and treat them as one 8 pin
PCI-E power, goes in the graphics card (in this case it's one six pin and one 6+2 pin)
SATA power, goes into your hard drive and optical drive, will have several connectors on one cable, for your PSU all the SATA cables come separate like the PCI-E
as well as SATA power you need to plug a SATA cable into the optical drive and hard drive, these are flat rounded cables and are often red or yellow, the other end of these then go into the SATA connectors on your motherboard which are usually just above the bottom right of your motherboard
sometimes the SATA ports are turned 90 degrees to the right, this is usually when the SATA connectors are in line with a PCI-E port. this is done so that when you have a long graphics card installed in the slot you're not going to block off any of the SATA connectors
front panel connectors (the small fiddly cables that come with the case), usually the bottom right of the mobo, check your motherboard manual for better help with these
front USB, similar to the front panel connectors but in one plastic block
front audio ports, again comes as one plastic block but might have two blocks on one cable, in this case you plug the one labelled HD into the audio connectors on your motherboard which are usually near the bottom left of the motherboard
you also need to plug any fans in, if they have small blocks of 3 or 4 pins they go into fan headers on your motherboard, if they have large 4 pin connectors there will be matching connectors on another separate cable for your PSU
the fan that comes on the heatsink for your CPU needs to go on a specific fan header labelled CPU_Fan or similar, this will be located somewhere near the CPU socket
that covers all of it I think, sorry if it's hard to understand I haven't been awake long
Also, make sure to not confuse the firewire/USB headers, they look exactly the same.
I does say on the cable which is which
[QUOTE=FINLEY;26288553]I does say on the cable which is which[/QUOTE]
True, but the header looks the same, so its easy to assume they are all USB.
Posting from the computer right now :smile:
Just this morning I figured out that thing with the 6-pin converting to 2-pin. I dunno why I didn't see the 2-pins hanging off the 6-pins before.
And seeing as today was Thanksgiving, a lot of people were buzzing around my house while I was staring at a manual for the fiftieth time and told be about the SATA power cables. From then on it was smooth sailing....
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