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Can a GA-H57M-USB3 with 24 pin ATX and 12 Volt 4 pin power connector work?

My power supply only has a 24 pin ATX and a 12 volt 4 pin (instead of 8 pins) power connector. Can a GA-H57M-USB3 work? I'll be using a Core i3 540 with 4 GB ram and will not be using any expansion cards.

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Re: Can a GA-H57M-USB3 with 24 pin ATX and 12 Volt 4 pin power connector work?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2010, 05:01:54 pm »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Well in theory it should work with a 4 pin connection but I'll bet it doesn't. The easiest thing is to get an adapter cable and just split the connection so you have two four pin connectors.

I hope you are intending to use a good quality PSU?  
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Re: Can a GA-H57M-USB3 with 24 pin ATX and 12 Volt 4 pin power connector work?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2010, 07:50:16 pm »
I'll try it first with the single 12V 4 pin connector since that's the original power supply built in into the case (antec fusion black 430) . Fortunately I just found out that i have another power supply (Hiper 580W sli ready psu) somewhere which should have the 8 pin 12V connector so in the end I should be fine. I still have to buy the mainboard, is it indicated how to connect the 4 pin connector?
Thanks for your quick anwer!

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Re: Can a GA-H57M-USB3 with 24 pin ATX and 12 Volt 4 pin power connector work?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 07:57:01 pm »
The connectors for the extra 12v lines are foolproof in that they only fit one way round.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
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Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
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Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy