4 pin vs 8 pin for i7 2600

BigCue96

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Looking to buy a i7 2600 within the week

Not planning not to overclock, not a K processor anyways

Wanna save money and NOT buy a new motherboard--- however----

My current MOBO only has a 4 pin connections for the CPU

I've been reading around and the extra 4 pins on MOBO's is for stability, and not does not diliver extra wattage but I am skeptical cause I've also read from a AMD user that his rig would post or boot and his CPU was at 95 watts-- as is the i7 2600

Any help is appreciated
 
In no way should you compare AMD users' experience with those of Intel users. Night/Day. Stability *is* extra wattage for VRMs, etc.

You will be absolutely fine with a 4-pin power connector only.

Edit: I am assuming your current motherbaord is socket-compatible with the i7 2600.
 




Yeah I'm not looking to do all that, just light gaming and I'm pretty sure it is from what I can tell -- there's not a lot of information on the MOBO

I pulled it out of a Inspiron I had just sitting around with a LGA1155 socket running a cheap pentium G645-- but I'm almost 95% sure it's compatible

If not I'll suck it up and cough up the dough for a cheap $50 MOBO no biggie, just rather not spend the cash cause this one has everything I need for now