Power Supply Sata Cables

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lucky7

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This is my first build so forgive me for my stupid questions. Anyway i have a gigabyte p35-ds3l and an ocz gamestream 700. Ive plugged most things in but one question i have is all the sata cables. There are so many sata cables coming from the power supply and all i need is 2. They also have like 3 connectors per cable and stuff. Since i only need to connect two wat do i do with the other ones. Just dont connect them to anything?
 
Don't feel bad! I one sata type optical drive that I have to run one of the rails upto while the two sata hard drves are plugged into the other one. Eventually I will lose the other ide optical for a sata cd writer. But I now simply have to do the same here by using some plastic ties to lightly hold them together and over to one side as much as possible.
 
thx, will there be other wires that u dont have to plug in. Like there is a cpu 2 connector. I plugged the cpu 1 connector into the slot but wat use could the second one have? Also where do u plug in the connector named p7, p8.....
thx for all the help guys
 
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p1 to p8 is the POWER cables. These are 4pin cables. The bigger ones go into ur hard drive, and the smaller ones go into floppy
 
Those would be for the standard ide type drives while Sata II models see the wider flat plug. Sata I drives can use either type of power plug while still using the same thin data cable. The other difference between Sata I + II is the mode not cable position jumpers seen one the early models.

OCZ numbered the power plugs for sata drives as well as the ide molex type. The board here has 6 sata ports so I guess the 700w GameXStream works out well for that.
 
haha yea i wont even be using the p1-p9 drives cause i already plugged my hard drive and optical drive into the sata power supply cables. Now on trying to hide those giant things.....
 
I had picked up a package of plastic ties along with the pair the Antec 900 case comes with but still haven't decided which way I will route them. Lately I've been rearranging drives and had to put the old ide drive back in temporarily until getting things reinstalled the way I want them

From there I'll reroute some of the harness and secure them out of the way. I'll likely see the top usb and eSata ports plugged in as well while not worrying about the audio jacks there. At least that harness is rather easy over the OCZ's dual 12v cpu leads where one hangs free when used on single cpu model boards. The AMD FX-74s would be the ones for desktops where you would use the second feed.
 
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