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I am a PSU newb, please help!

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TheAstrohaut

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I am in a dire need of a tutorial that explains how to wire PSU cables to motherboard, optical drive, hard disk drive, case fans, and anything else that I missed. I have searched all over, but couldn't find a decent tutorial. Please let me know if you know of such tutorial. It doesn't have to be a video tutorial, I would much rather prefer a written tutorial. Thank You!
 
What's confusing you exactly?

1. 20/24 Pin connector: This cable is the main source of power for your motherboard/peripherals and should be pretty obvious as there's only 1 of this cable and its quite wide (12x2) Should look like this.
2. 4/8 Pin connector: This is another cable that is fitted to the motherboard, it should also be the only cable of its appearance from your PSU. Typically can be separated from 8 to 2 4 pin connectors at the end. Should look something like this. On the left is a connector that can be split into 2 4 pins, on the right is the typical 8 pin.
3. Case fans: These should be connected to the motherboard itself if you can, however many times you'll find there aren't enough 3/4 pin headers to do so. In which case most case fans also have Molex connections as well, this cable should looks like this.
4. Hard Drives/Optical Disc Drives: If both of these are modern parts then they'll likely be SATA data and power driven. These cables look like this, there should be a number of these connections from your PSU. These are the power cables only so make sure to secure the data cables as well.
 
krnmastersgt said:
4. Hard Drives/Optical Disc Drives: If both of these are modern parts then they'll likely be SATA data and power driven. These cables look like this, there should be a number of these connections from your PSU. These are the power cables only so make sure to secure the data cables as well.
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That link is actually to a SATA data cable. The SATA power cable looks like this.
 
mfenn said:
That link is actually to a SATA data cable. The SATA power cable looks like this.
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Yeah I felt something was off when looking at the cable header. But cables are pretty simple nowadays, they have enough notable traits that you shouldn't readily be confused about which goes where or anything like that.
 
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