----DFI Lanparty NF4 ULTRA-D---- not have PCI-e plug?

[Battlewaffle]

For those of you with this mainboard, have a question for ya.
I have the manual to this board (board is at home, so I can't look at it). However, the OCZ Modstream 520w PS comes with a dedicated 6pin PCI-e power lead, but it looks like this mainboard doesn't have a PCI-e power socket. Is there normally a 6pin PCI-e lead on most mainboards that this DFI just doesn't have?

Does it supply power to that bus through the regular ATX power lead? I see no 6pin socket at all on the DFI

 

[MTSteel]

You are correct, no 6 pin on the board. Just be sure to plug in the 24 pin, the 4 pin, the 4 ping molex, and the 4 pin floppy type power connector and all will be fine
I do not have the answer to how the PCIe gets its power.

 

[MTSteel]

Some info from a DFI rep

pretty much the answer right here. 6600GT SLI cards do not have their own power and therefore get the power from the 4-pin molex on the board. 6800GT's and above have their own 12v power requirements that come direct from the psu.

ATI cards are the same essentially...those with no power connector pull their power from the 4-pin 12v molex. Those with their own power connector do not.

the 4-pin floppy connector is to provide extra stable power to the most power-hungry region on the motherboard.

as I have said before, you can decide not to plug anything in to these places if you so choose.

but

DFI doesn't put them on the motherboard unless there is a reason to have them. Too many times we have seen users with underpowered psu's or not connecting BOTH of these plugs up with power and having all sorts of issues, which went away instantly by giving power to these two locations, and also having a psu that meets minimum specs (24-pin native + 480w minimum)

 

[imported_Kensai]

The 75W that the PCI-E bus supplies comes from the 24 pin connector. The 6 pin PCI-E connector goes to specific high end video cards like the 6800 and x850.

 

[Battlewaffle]

Ah, that's right. Duh, the X850 XT I have does have a 6pin on it. Oops. Thanks for the help guys. Sorry for the oversight.

 

[imported_Kensai]

No problem. That's what we're here for right?