I bought a new Z490 motherboard last week and went to install it, only to find that my existing PSU didn't have the right cables (non-modular, so no way to swap them out). I then went out to get a new, fully modular PSU so I would more likely have a compatible PSU for the board. I got home with it and went to install it, only to find out it doesn't have the necessary CPU power cables either. The board has a 8+4 CPU connector and my power supply only has 8 and 6+2 cables. Any idea what I could do to get the right cables?
#Don't have cables
static haven
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are you going to be liquid nitrogen cooling the system? it only needs the cpu 8 pin power. the 4 pin extra is for exotic cooling and overclocking where you would be pulling more power than 160 watts x4 to the cpu.
static haven
So it doesn't need both? There are gaps in my knowledge with building and I've never built with a z series board before. I'm just really worried that I'm going to end up underpowering my system. I was thinking about doing light overclocking, but nothing too intense.