Simple question I've been meaning to ask about. I bought an Asus a8n sli deluxe for my new computer (an AMD64 mobo). When I was plugging everything in, I found the EAX power lead from the PSU had 20 pins, but the EAX power connector on the mobo had 24 pins. Needless to say I used the grounds as a guide as to exactly where I should plug it in even with the extra four pins on the mobo and powered it up and everything worked. Been using it ever since like that and it's all worked perfectly with no apparent problems. But it doesn't say anywhere in the mobo's manual about this. I looked at a Pentium mobo I had lying around and that only had a 20 pin eax connector. I was wondering that perhaps 24 pin eax connectors is something to do with AMD mobos? When I bought the case it said it's PSU was AMD and P4 ready though when I got it it only said P4 ready on the box. Slim Vision

The extra 4 pins are for a motherboard with PCI Express. Your MOBO has that, correct? If so all you would need to do is get a different PSU. <===Lefty===

Oh I see. Yea it does have PCI-E. It's got two ports actually. Normally one PCI-E x16 and I think one PCI-E x1, but if I flip a connector it goes into SLI mode and makes both ports act as PCI-E x16 for using two identicle graphics cards. So if ever I want to use the SLI config I'll just need a new PSU that supports it. Okay that's great. Right now I've just got one graphics card in the PCI-E x16 slot so it's not a problem. Thanks for the info. Slim Vision

Adapters: 24 to 20 20 to 24

Great, thanks for that. Slim Vision

You're welcome. It's probably easier (and safer) using those than trying to rewire the connections.

Indeed. It will also save me a lot of hassle when getting a new PSU whewn I start using this SLI configuration, since I won't need to worry about making sure it has a 24pin connector or not. Slim Vision