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List of Socket 462 motherboards with 12V 4pin power connector

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These days Athlon and Athlon XP are often dismissed for high-end Windows 98 or early XP PCs for their reliance of the 5V rail which is a weak point of modern PSUs. Some late boards however inherited the P4/s478 4pin 12V ATX power connector to offload the 5V rail. I think because of this these boards might be of interest to those who are concerned about aging PSUs. I didn't find any list about them so here is one of some of the boards I know to have that.

MOBO                                            Chipset
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Abit AT7-MAX2                                   VIA KT400
Abit KD7 series (vanilla/-B/-G/-S/-RAID)        VIA KT400
Abit NF7 series (vanilla/-M/-S/-S2/-S2G)        nForce2
Albatron KM400A Pro                             VIA KM400
Asus A7V8X-LA                                   VIA KM400
DFI KM266PRO-MLV                                VIA KM266
DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B                       nForce2
DFI NFII Ultra-INFINITY                         nForce2
ECS Elitegroup N2U400-A                         nForce2
Epox EP-8RDA3+                                  nForce2
EPoX EP-8RDA+PRO                                nForce2
EPOX EP-8VTAI                                   VIA KT880
FIC AU13                                        nForce2
FIC AM39L                                       VIA KM400
FIC K7M-NF18G                                   nForce2
FIC K7MNF-64                                    nForce2
Gigabyte GA-7N400 (vanilla/Pro/Pro2)            nForce2
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP                               nForce2
Gigabyte GA-7VASFS                              VIA KT600
MSI KM2M Combo-L                                VIA KM266
MSI KM3M-V                                      VIA KM266
MSI KM4M-V                                      VIA KM400
MSI KT2 Combo                                   VIA KT266A
MSI KT3 Ultra2-C                                VIA KT333
MSI KT6 Delta                                   VIA KT600
MSI KT6V                                        VIA KT600
MSI KT880 Delta-FSR                             VIA KT880
MSI K7N2 Delta/Delta2/Delta2 Platinum           nForce2
MSI K7N2GM-L                                    nForce2
PC CHIPS M825G(/M825LU V7.2c)                   VIA KM266
PC CHIPS M863G                                  SiS 741GX
PC CHIPS M848ALU (not all variants)             SiS 748
Shuttle AN35N-Ultra                             nForce2
Shuttle MN31/N                                  nForce2
Soltek SL-75FRN2-L/SL-75FRN2-RL                 nForce2
Soltek SL-KT600-RL                              VIA KT600

There are also some barebones with non-standard form factor boards from ASUS and Shuttle I know about, but those being non-standard, I ignored them. If anyone has other models to add to the list, feel free to do so.

Edit 08-24-22: List updated with new suggested boards. Also it looks like I missed an earlier topic with a similar purpose. I don't mind if the two get merged, but I think it's more readable if the first comments has a continuously updated list.

Last edited by RandomStranger on 2022-08-24, 07:45. Edited 2 times in total.

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Reply 2 of 7, by TrashPanda

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TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:28:

https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … _A_motherboards

While that list is useful it doesnt specifically list which of the 12v boards has the P4 4 pin power connector, this list is for that purpose as quite a few of the 12v boards have it as an option and not baseline.

Obviously we are not at all interested in 5v boards or 12v boards without the connector.

Reply 3 of 7, by TheMobRules

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:33:
TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:28:

https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … _A_motherboards

While that list is useful it doesnt specifically list which of the 12v boards has the P4 4 pin power connector, this list is for that purpose as quite a few of the 12v boards have it as an option and not baseline.

Obviously we are not at all interested in 5v boards or 12v boards without the connector.

Huh? The purpose of that list was precisely to document which socket A boards have the 4 pin ATX 12V connector and use a 12V VRM:

Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?

Reply 4 of 7, by AlexZ

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I have MSI KT6V (VIA KT600), Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 (NVIDIA nForce2) and Epox EP-8RDA3+ (NVIDIA nForce2). All of them have 12V 4pin connector. The Epox board is missing in your list.

Athlon XP is great as a dual boot late Windows 98 and early Windows XP rig.

Pentium III 900E,ECS P6BXT-A+,384MB,GeForce FX 5600, Voodoo 2,Yamaha SM718
Athlon 64 3400+,Gigabyte GA-K8NE,2GB,GeForce GTX 275,Audigy 2 ZS
Phenom II X4 955,Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3,8GB,GeForce GTX 780
Vishera FX-8370,Asus 990FX,32GB,GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Reply 5 of 7, by luk1999

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You can also add to your list:
* MSI KT2 Combo (KT266A with SDR and DDR)
* MSI KT3 Ultra2-C
* MSI KT6 Delta
* SOLTEK SL-KT600-RL

Quite a lot of KT600/KT880 non-value models had P4 +12 V connector.

P4 3.4E, P4C800-E Deluxe, 1 GB RAM, X800PRO 128 MB AGP, SB Audigy, XP SP2
XP2000+, KT2 Combo, 512 MB RAM, GF4Ti4200 64 MB AGP, FM801, Me
C500, Garry, 128 MB RAM, Voodoo 2 12 MB, TNT2 PRO 32 MB, ALS100 Plus+, 98SE

Reply 6 of 7, by Tetrium

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TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:47:
TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:33:
TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:28:

https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … _A_motherboards

While that list is useful it doesnt specifically list which of the 12v boards has the P4 4 pin power connector, this list is for that purpose as quite a few of the 12v boards have it as an option and not baseline.

Obviously we are not at all interested in 5v boards or 12v boards without the connector.

Huh? The purpose of that list was precisely to document which socket A boards have the 4 pin ATX 12V connector and use a 12V VRM:

Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?

I've always wondered if there are sA boards with 5v VRM which actually do have a 12V 4 pin connector (so for which the existence of the 4p 12V connector is kinda misleading).

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Reply 7 of 7, by TrashPanda

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TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:47:
TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:33:
TheMobRules wrote on 2022-08-23, 13:28:

https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … _A_motherboards

While that list is useful it doesnt specifically list which of the 12v boards has the P4 4 pin power connector, this list is for that purpose as quite a few of the 12v boards have it as an option and not baseline.

Obviously we are not at all interested in 5v boards or 12v boards without the connector.

Huh? The purpose of that list was precisely to document which socket A boards have the 4 pin ATX 12V connector and use a 12V VRM:

Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?

You can see on that list there are 12v boards that either use a Molex setup to get 12v power or dont have the P4 connector except as an option, the list itself doesnt signify which of the boards has the connector physically on the board.

There are also a good number of boards missing from that list, it needs to be updated, the socket 370 motherboard list also needs updating.

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