The motherboard takes a full-size 24-pin ATX power link from the power supply, which handles most functions on the PC. Still, there's also a dedicated central processing unit (CPU) connection, usually ...

Scored myself a 9800gx2 evga, but when I cable up the 8 pin header on my motherboard, I get zilch. The powerswitch goes on, I get a power light, but absolutely nothing from the pc. No spinning fans, ...

[Martin] sent this query, along with the lead photo, into the tip line, and he makes a good point. Most development and evaluation boards have multiple rows of pin headers, often arriving loose in the ...

So here we just mounted the backplate, we see that the two heatsinks are nicely mounted secure. Now we insert the two supplied power connectors. One 6-pin and one 8-pin. Surprisingly enough the 8-pin ...