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Are the pin-outs on a 3-year old PS compatible with todays hardware?

The Sauce

The Sauce

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I have a 3 year-old Corsair 650HX sitting around here and I am going to be building a new i5 or i7 system, probably with a 5830. Will this work or are there new mobo/vid pinouts which will be incompatible?
 
There's lot of stuff that changed but you might be lucky. Some motherboards now require a secondary 4 pin connector (2 12v circuits) and I noticed some motherboard connectors are even different now, there's like 6 or so pins less. Normally the PSU has it broken down so you can use on new or old motherboards. Not sure if they were like this 3 years ago or not. You might be ok.
 
The 650HX is going to be fine. They still make it. Has 4 6+2 pin PCIe connectors so you're set on the video card side of things. Has a splittable 8 pin CPU power (4+4) so you're good there too. Gobs of power on the 12V rail.

They haven't changed any of the pinouts on much of anything in the past 3 years. The only thing they added around that timeframe was the 8 pin PCIe but you have that with the 6+2 so you're good to go.

Zero issues using that on a current build.
 
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