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Using an 8 pin power cable to power my cpu - but the original power cable was 10 pins. 2 pins are empty.?

Now i get a message saying I have low system voltage. Is this gonna impair performance? Are there adapters for this?This is for a DESKTOP. Dell XPS.

Answer:

What? What are you saying? What processor uses a 10 pin power connector? You did 'say' CPU! (Central Processing Unit) Or do you mean the 20 pin ATX Motherboard connector? (AMD's use no power to processor connector. Intel Pentium 4 and UP, use a four pin power connector, from the power supply to the motherboard. (Mobo) Edit: Low System Voltage will start with causing weird things to happen. Then the computer motherboard power headers,(Connectors), will burn up. I suggest you turn this computer off, un-plug it, and email me.

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