[Dilerious]

I'm wanting to upgrade my Power Supply in my new computer to fit with my new motherboard, the reason I had to upgrade the motherboard is because the old one was out of date. So I got a new motherboard, but the powersupply in the pc is old, and wont fit the motherboard sockets.
I wanted to know, because the other components were old too, if I would have to upgrade my hard drive and/or my CD Drives?
I dont know if any of the sockets have changed to plug in the HDD and CD drives.

[girasquid]

What kind of power connections do your hard/optical drives have?

[MorphiusFaydal]

You HDD and CD/DVD drives are probably on an IDE cable, and I have seen very few motherboards that have completely done away with IDE cables. You should be safe for now.

I'm guessing you have a 20-pin powersupply and a 24-pin motherboard? I was in the same position not long ago. I bought a CoolerMaster power supply, 550w, for about $40 (USD, that is..).

[Dilerious]

I think the book that came with the motherboard said it supports 20 & 24 pin sockets. And it came with some cables, with black ends that arn't currently in my pc, from what I remember that is. I think it's just the white ended cables. I don't know the names of these cables unfortunatly ;[

[MorphiusFaydal]

The white ended cables are usually called "Molex" connectors, and the black ended ones are SATA connectors.

You really want to check what the board supports as far as 20 and 24 pin power supplies. Plugging in the wrong one could have dire results for your brand new hardware. If it has a 24-pin ATX slot, I would play it safe and get a 24-pin power supply.

[Dilerious]

The book said it supports ATX 20 & 24 pin, and looking at a website, I think I found the right one for what I need. Both the motherboard, and the power supply on this website says it supports both 20 & 24 pin.

[MorphiusFaydal]

Then I guess you're set.

[d4t4ch17d]

Dilerious, on 19 Feb, 2008 - 08:32 AM, said:

I'm wanting to upgrade my Power Supply in my new computer to fit with my new motherboard, the reason I had to upgrade the motherboard is because the old one was out of date. So I got a new motherboard, but the powersupply in the pc is old, and wont fit the motherboard sockets.
I wanted to know, because the other components were old too, if I would have to upgrade my hard drive and/or my CD Drives?
I dont know if any of the sockets have changed to plug in the HDD and CD drives.

The problem is not whether the connection interfaces have changed, its whether your current PSU can supply the current wattage necessary for the entire PC.

As for the 20pin/24pin connection for the motherboard, that can be overcome by simply using a converter which cost less than $1. It will just provide a split off the 12v, 3.3v, 5v, and ground from the original 20pin. As for new connections for optical drives, they still have a molex interface. The only change would occur when upgrading from an PATA to a SATA drive, but you can get a converter for your molex adapter to fit the new SATA drives.

Main thing to check is how many watts the PSU you currently have can push out, if it's at 550W or 600W you are fine. Unless you are throwing in some 8800GTXs using SLI, then I would suggest a lot more wattage. Also, make sure your new motherboard doesn't require an 4pin/8pin auxiliary power, because if your PSU doesn't have that, then you will need a new PSU. The question is real vague to be honest, if you want to tell us what CPU you are looking into, the RAM, video cards (physics accelerator?), etc. Then we can give you a more concrete direction!