ATX Power Supply AUX Cable
along with the 6 pin AUX connect, or which I also just found out is called a P6 connector according to an article that tomshardware did on PSUs.
Now my question is does the P6 connector HAVE to be connected? I feel stupid for asking this but of all the power supplies that I've seen on Newegg this is the only power supply that I found that lists the AUX connector as included with the supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159047
I'm looking to get a power supply that will work with my system that is not necessarily quiet but not as loud as my old one. I was also looking into Active PFC, having taken some power classes in school this stuff kinda interested me and I figure I might as well have a pretty efficient supply.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Also here are the specs on my computer, I had a 400W supply that came with the motherboard when I bought some of these components used from a guy at school a couple of years ago and I'm not sure if maybe I should go for a higher wattage PSU.
ASUS CUV4X-D w/ PIII 1GHz
1152 MB SDRAM
3 Optical Drives (DVD-ROM, DVD-RW DL, CD-RW)
2 IDE Hard Drives (80 GB, 60 GB)
1 AGP GeForce2 32MB
1 PCI ATI TNT2 16 MB (I run a dual monitor setup)
1 Sound Blaster Live Value
1 USB2.0 PCI card (iPod is usually the only thing connected to this)
1 NIC
1 Promise Ultra133 Controller card
1 Floppy/Media Card Reader
Is 400W enough? There were 2 other IDE hard drives in the system until I took them out because they weren't getting used anymore. The system ran fine from what I could tell with all of that stuff.
Now my question is does the P6 connector HAVE to be connected? I feel stupid for asking this but of all the power supplies that I've seen on Newegg this is the only power supply that I found that lists the AUX connector as included with the supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159047
I'm looking to get a power supply that will work with my system that is not necessarily quiet but not as loud as my old one. I was also looking into Active PFC, having taken some power classes in school this stuff kinda interested me and I figure I might as well have a pretty efficient supply.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Also here are the specs on my computer, I had a 400W supply that came with the motherboard when I bought some of these components used from a guy at school a couple of years ago and I'm not sure if maybe I should go for a higher wattage PSU.
ASUS CUV4X-D w/ PIII 1GHz
1152 MB SDRAM
3 Optical Drives (DVD-ROM, DVD-RW DL, CD-RW)
2 IDE Hard Drives (80 GB, 60 GB)
1 AGP GeForce2 32MB
1 PCI ATI TNT2 16 MB (I run a dual monitor setup)
1 Sound Blaster Live Value
1 USB2.0 PCI card (iPod is usually the only thing connected to this)
1 NIC
1 Promise Ultra133 Controller card
1 Floppy/Media Card Reader
Is 400W enough? There were 2 other IDE hard drives in the system until I took them out because they weren't getting used anymore. The system ran fine from what I could tell with all of that stuff.
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Even then, the +6 is moderately irregular. Your 400w is just fine, and if you go to build a new system, we'll let you know what PSU you need for the given board.
So this is what the connectors on my motherboard look as an example:
If your current set-up is running fine, I'd leave it.
It is probably not up to the task of powering your setup, or it has progressively weakened over time such that failures are beginning to appear now. It's interesting to see how important the power supply has become in a PC build these days - in some cases, it can be one of the most expensive components now, whereas ten years ago no one would have suspected this to become the case.