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The most useless piece of hardware... ever!

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I was going to tell you guys why this is completely useless, but I then thought it would be fun to let you figure it out yourself.

BTW, CompUSA B&M sells this exact thing.
 
the killerNIC is a steal at $200, or whatever it costs!!! ~200 for a 5 fps increase and that awesome heatsink totally make the price worth it!
 
OK, since you guys are having a hard time figuring this out... this 20-pin to 24-pin adapter does not wire-up the extra 4 pins. Since a 20-pin plug will fit into a 24-pin socket anyway, this adapter isn't an adapter at all. If anything, all it gives you is an extra 5 inches (please resist the double entendre!).

Yeah, and I agree, I'd rather spend $10 on this "killer" adapter than $200 on the killerNIC.
 
This item http://www.directron.com/24to20pin6in.html is not useless at all.
The point of this is to plug a 24 pin power supply into a 20 pin motherboard.
24 pin plugs do not fit into 20 pin sockets.

That being said, most good power supplies allow you to *split* the 24 pin adaptor into a 20 pin and a 4 pin.
Though, if you are replacing a power supply on an old 20 pin mobo, its possible you'll just stick a cheapo junk power supply in it.
Usually the junk power supplies do not allow you to split the adaptor into the 20 and 4 pin sections.
 
If your motherboard happens to have a capacitor right next to the ATX socket, it would not be useless.

The adapters to go the other way, from a 20-pin supply to a 24-pin motherboard, those are useless.
 
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