Sometime today I have to install a PSU and I have basically no idea how to do that
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Someone was like "take pictures" and I was like oh that's a good idea and so I'm trying and they just all look like someone's last known photograph. This is some Blair Witch Project shit. Resident Evil cutscene with a fake VHS filter
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Oh hey look! It's the connector that I will not be able to use Windows 11 because I refuse to hook it up. Fuck DRM and fuck Microsoft LOL
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Note: I don't actually know if the mobo connector labeled "TPM" has anything to do with the TPM. I just wanted an excuse to complain about Windows 11
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Okay this is weird. I've got
- Little strip periodically marked with wide metal plugs
- Plug type with four teeth
- Existing dongle connecting four-teeth to wide plug??
Is the wide plug "SATA"? Can I just go ahead and connect the four-teeth to the SATA ribbon and not worry?
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Most stuff is covered by the main motherboard cable, CPU cable and GPU cable.
Case fans should ideally be connected to motherboard case fan headers for fan control. Sometimes they are hooked up to PSU or PSU via fan controller. You very likely don't have a fan controller though.
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If you only have M.2 drives, that's it. If you have SATA SSDs and hard drives, those need SATA power. EVGA gives you multiple SATA power cables and one of them can hook up 3-4 drives. BluRay, DVD, etc. similar.
Ancient stuff uses molex connectors. It's unlikely you need those.
Those are adaptors turning legacy molex cables from a PSU into SATA power. Your EVGA PSU doesn't have any of those and just has the proper SATA power cables. If you needed to hook up legacy molex stuff you'd need a cable converting the other way around.
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Plug in cable to PSU one at a time and run it to where it goes: motherboard (right side of motherboard), then CPU (top left of motherboard), then GPU, then a single SATA one. You only need multiple SATA ones plugged into PSU if you have a ton of drives or it's too far apart.
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I'm not sure but I think the molex is powering the little light on front of the case
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Power/activity LED and powe /reset buttons are usually powered by tiny little pins that go into a ridiculously hard to deal with set of pins on the lower right of motherboard, not PSU. Each pin is generally separate. Horrible. Recent mobos have thing that detaches to help.
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