First post, by Almoststew1990
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I am thinking of building a Socket A PC. If a Socket A board has a 4-pin 12v "CPU power connector" in addition to the 20-pin ATX power connector, will the CPU (say a ~50watt Athlon 1GHz) use the 12v rail, or is there some other reason why these boards have the separate 4-pin power connector?
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