4 pin 12v connector to 8 pin motherboard socket

hi.. I have a 6 pin connector and a 4 pin connector. i need to power 1660 super which has an 8 pin socket. i manged to connect the 6 pin and 2 of the 4 pin. but i didn't power the machine fearing some bad may happen 🔥🔥🔥 if its going to work i need to remove the extra 2 pins from the 4 pin...

Good day, Motherboards nowadays come with the extra 4 pin ATX power socket together with the regular 8 pin ATX socket. My question is can you buy that extra power cable? Because my power supply originally does not include that cable and I upgraded to a motherboard with that extra 4 pin ATX...

I have a Asus x470-f motherboard and Ryzen 5 3600x cpu my issue is that my PSU only has ONE 4 pin connector for the CPU and my motherboard CPU slot is a 8 pin, would I still be able to use my current powersupply by connecting the 4 pin into the 8 pin slot and having half of it empty?

Well couple of days ago my main PSU (500W) died and today I've got new PSU (550W) but it has only one 4 pin connector for CPU, PSU that died has 2x4 pins that are recommended for motherboard: My motherboard: Gigabyte B85M-D3H CPU: i5 4690 (non K) Is 4-pin connector enough power for stable CPU...

I bought a new CPU for my budget PC (i3-6100 CPU). I get micro stutters in like every 2-3 minutes and they can be really annoying after a while. Before this I had a worse CPU. Is the problem probably on the CPU power connector? Is 4 pins not enough for this CPU? I connected 4 pins in my MOBO's 8...

Hi guys, my ASRock Z97 Ex4 just died on me after moving, and this is the second time I had this mobo (first time had a manufacturer problem.) I'm hesitant to get the same one a third time because it doesn't seem that reliable after going down twice on me (I do really like how it looks though.)...