[Aquaman78]

My MSI motherboard finally gave up the ghost after giving me almost 3 years of service. 4 of the 6.3v caps bulged. I have a new board and ram on the way and will continue using my Phenom II 955 BE. The new board has already been shipped by the egg and this evening I was reading more reviews on the board and just realized that it has an 8 pin CPU power socket whereas my 500w PSU only has a single 4 pin plug. I know that some boards will work just fine with just 4 wires, and I know that 4 wires is ample to power my CPU, even overclocked. My question is, will the M5A97 cooperate with just 4 wires? I know a lot of you guys are gonna say to get another PSU, but this Antec has had no issues running my system...I don't run an SLI setup or multiple hdds.

[Super Nade]

You should have no problems. Which Antec unit do you have?

PS: Your MSI board can be fixed. Check my sig for more information.

[Aquaman78]

I considered recapping it, but couldn't find the motivation to do so. I was long overdue on switching to an AM3+ board, and this failure just gave me the incentive to do so. At least now I'll have a board with solid caps. I figured 4 pins powering the CPU would be sufficient since they powered it on the previous MB. Just wanted to make sure the Asus didn't have some odd current routing and throw a fit about not getting power from all of the leads. My PSU is an Antec Basiq 500w