i cant find the cable on my psu to hook into my cpu

[gokitty199]

rosewill 700w psu, my friend is building his pc through skype and im helping him, we have not been able to find a 8pin cpu power cable, closest thing we could find was the 6+2 pcie cable, his manual says there is one for processor but he can not find it anywhere. the psu has all the cables built into it.

 

[Gam3r01]

Link to specific PSU and motherboard?
It most likely has a 4 pin CPU connector on the psu, and the motherboard might need an 8 pin.

 

[smorizio]

kitty on newer power supply it two black four pin plugs. some have a clip in the middle of them to lock them together.

 

[Gam3r01]

kitty on newer power supply it two black four pin plugs. some have a clip in the middle of them to lock them together.

Your picture gets me every time.

 

[smorizio]

kitty on newer power supply it two black four pin plugs. some have a clip in the middle of them to lock them together.
http://www.buildcomputers.net/images/4-pin-p4-cpu-connector.jpg

 

[gokitty199]

hes lookin. and he would have to, it was a sales build on newegg for cristmas and its no longer avalable

 

[smorizio]

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/17-182-173-07.jpg
if the power supply cables are the same there should be two with white tags saying cpu-1 cpu-2 on them.

 

[gokitty199]

found a 8 pin cable that goes into a 4 pin as well

 

[photonboy]

found a 8 pin cable that goes into a 4 pin as well

If you mean it splits into two, 4-pin cables then YES THAT IS THE ONE. It splits for backwards compatibility but you use both.

 

[gokitty199]

found a 8 pin cable that goes into a 4 pin as well

If you mean it splits into two, 4-pin cables then YES THAT IS THE ONE. It splits for backwards compatibility but you use both.

no it comes from the psu as a 8 pin, then it goes to another connecter which is a 4 pin. the manual shows a 8 pin for the processor, as well as a 4 pin so i imagin that this is for both kinds of motherboards.

 

[photonboy]

found a 8 pin cable that goes into a 4 pin as well

If you mean it splits into two, 4-pin cables then YES THAT IS THE ONE. It splits for backwards compatibility but you use both.

no it comes from the psu as a 8 pin, then it goes to another connecter which is a 4 pin. the manual shows a 8 pin for the processor, as well as a 4 pin so i imagin that this is for both kinds of motherboards.

Most current power supplies have an 8-pin connector which can be split into two, 4-pin connectors. Both are for the CPU on different motherboards.

What you appear to have is BOTH on the same main cable with the 4-pin only connecting to some of the 8-pin lines. The companies looked at this and said "Hey, why not just make a splittable 8-pin instead?"