Though this motherboard provides 8-pin ATX 12V power connector, it can still work if you adopt a traditional 4-pin ATX 12V power supply. To use the 4-pin ATX power supply, please plug your power supply along with Pin 1 and Pin 5.

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4-Pin ATX 12V Power Supply Installation

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SLI/XFIRE Power Connector

(4-pin SLI/XFIRE_PWR1)

(see p.14 No. 31)

SLI/XFIRE_POWER1

It is not necessary to use this connector, but please connect it with a hard disk power connecor when two graphics cards are plugged to this motherboard.

IEEE 1394 Header

Besides one default IEEE 1394

(9-pin FRONT_1394)

port on the I/O panel, there

(see p.14 No. 34)

is one IEEE 1394 header

 

(FRONT_1394) on this

 

motherboard. This IEEE 1394

 

header can support one IEEE

 

1394 port.

 

 

Serial port Header

This COM1 header supports a

(9-pin COM1)

serial port module.

(see p.14 No. 32)

 

HDMI_SPDIF Header

HDMI_SPDIF header, providing

(2-pin HDMI_SPDIF1)

SPDIF audio output to HDMI

(see p.14 No. 33)

VGA card, allows the system to

 

connect HDMI Digital TV/

 

projector/LCD devices. Please

 

connect the HDMI_SPDIF

 

connector of HDMI VGA card to

 

this header.

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ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional manual Port on the I/O panel, there