CPU POWER INSTALLATION

Your motherboard’s got juice, so let’s sort out the CPU. Your EPS power cable looks like a PCIe power cable, although it usually has EPS or CPU written on the plug. Its pins are also different shapes, so there’s no way you can plug a PCIe power connector into a CPU connector. On a bigger chassis with better cable management, you’d run it up the back of the motherboard and into the eight-pin socket. In our case, there are no cut-outs to do that. There’s also not enough cable to run it from the side. We could run it straight up from the power supply, but that’s messy. Instead, we’ll unscrew some of the screws holding the mobo in place, near the socket, then thread the CPU power through the CPU socket cut-out on the mobo tray, then up into the power supply slot, letting the mobo stand-offs act as cable management space, before securing the motherboard back down.