I just registered this account solely for this question. I hope you guys can help me out on this because I'm so lost.
In short, I had a pre-built Lenovo case that had Lenovo H50-50 LGA1150 CIH81M Motherboard in it. We recently upgraded the GPU and of course the PSU, but the pins on the motherboard are not compatible with the ones that come with the PSU. The PSU has the regular 20+4 pin cable, which doesn't suit my 14+4 motherboard pin slot. I couldn't find a 20 pin to 14 pin converter where I live and the only one I found online was on Amazon - sadly the seller doesn't ship to my country.
And then I bought a 24 pin to 14 pin adapter, thinking that maybe it'll work out or maybe I could find someone to modify it for me. (Saw on YT) It obviously didn't work out because the additional 4 pin slot was empty and the computer didn't boot up- it booted up for a second and then it turned off itself to protect the components inside.
After all of this I tried to find a cable that I could plug it into the 4 pin slot and found out a cable that adapts PCI-E cables into 4 pin CPU cables. The 4 pin slot that I'm trying to fill in isn't the CPU's power slot so I'm guessing that this may not work. I read it on this forum that if I do something wrong about this, I'm most likely going to end up with a fried motherboard so I figured it would be the best to ask you guys about this before buying the cable and ending up with nothing. I would love to update my motherboard but it doesn't seem that it's possible right now.
Not only that, I'm also having an issue with the USB3 and the HD Audio cable but for now on I'm only focused on the power issue. Thoughts on this?
My PC:
-Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20 GHz
-NVidia GT 720 2GB GDDR3
-SAMSUNG 8GB RAM 2rx8 PC3-12800U-11-13-B1 1600MHz
-Lenovo CIH81M LGA1150 Motherboard
The new components:
-Cougar STX 700W
-Asus STRIX GTX 1650 SUPER
-MSI MAG 100M Case
-G SKILL 8GB RAM F3-1600C11S-8GNT DDR3-1600 CL11-11-11-28 1.5V 1600MHz
In short, I had a pre-built Lenovo case that had Lenovo H50-50 LGA1150 CIH81M Motherboard in it. We recently upgraded the GPU and of course the PSU, but the pins on the motherboard are not compatible with the ones that come with the PSU. The PSU has the regular 20+4 pin cable, which doesn't suit my 14+4 motherboard pin slot. I couldn't find a 20 pin to 14 pin converter where I live and the only one I found online was on Amazon - sadly the seller doesn't ship to my country.
And then I bought a 24 pin to 14 pin adapter, thinking that maybe it'll work out or maybe I could find someone to modify it for me. (Saw on YT) It obviously didn't work out because the additional 4 pin slot was empty and the computer didn't boot up- it booted up for a second and then it turned off itself to protect the components inside.
After all of this I tried to find a cable that I could plug it into the 4 pin slot and found out a cable that adapts PCI-E cables into 4 pin CPU cables. The 4 pin slot that I'm trying to fill in isn't the CPU's power slot so I'm guessing that this may not work. I read it on this forum that if I do something wrong about this, I'm most likely going to end up with a fried motherboard so I figured it would be the best to ask you guys about this before buying the cable and ending up with nothing. I would love to update my motherboard but it doesn't seem that it's possible right now.
Not only that, I'm also having an issue with the USB3 and the HD Audio cable but for now on I'm only focused on the power issue. Thoughts on this?
My PC:
-Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20 GHz
-NVidia GT 720 2GB GDDR3
-SAMSUNG 8GB RAM 2rx8 PC3-12800U-11-13-B1 1600MHz
-Lenovo CIH81M LGA1150 Motherboard
The new components:
-Cougar STX 700W
-Asus STRIX GTX 1650 SUPER
-MSI MAG 100M Case
-G SKILL 8GB RAM F3-1600C11S-8GNT DDR3-1600 CL11-11-11-28 1.5V 1600MHz