P7 Power Supply Connector

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P7 power supply connector.

If you look carefully at the picture above you can see. They connect the power supply to the motherboard on at baby at and lpx motherboards. More buying choices 11 06 3 used new offers amazon s choice for atx power adapter. It is often refered to as an eps12v cable.

Alternatively referred to as the at style connector p8 connector and p9 connector the p8 and p9 are ibm power connectors. Gpu video card power connectors this is a 6 or 8 pin power connector that feeds higher end gpu s whose power requirements are much too high to be fed through the motherboard slot. Dc power connector p7 there are only 2 cables that connect to the hard drive power cable from the power supply and the data cable that connects from the drive to the motherboard. Plugging an atx power supply into ac power while the p1 connector is not connected to a load will destroy the power supply.

The original atx systems had 20 pin main connector p1. With the introduction of atx motherboards and power supplies were replaced by the atx style connector. Eyeboot 24 pin to 8 pin power supply atx psu adapter cable for dell motherboards. The 8 pin 12 volt cable is polarized so it can only be plugged into the 8 pin motherboard connector correctly.

For the operation basics of smps psu see our power supply tutorial. Get it as soon as thu oct 1. The picture is an example of this connector. Standard atx power supplies typically have the main power connector p1 additional 12v connectors as well as peripheral floppy drive serial ata and pci express receptacles which we will describe below.

Free shipping on your first order shipped by amazon. Depending on the power supply the connector may contain one 12 volt rail in all 8 pins or two 12 volt rails taking up 4 pins apiece. These supplies feature two main power connectors p8 and p9 each with 6 pins that attach the power supply to the motherboard.