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RE: Congratulations on this important step! A wild idea...

If that is correct, that is a very elegant way of disabling more stuff on the mobo

Ah, but it's not correct, at least for every mobo I've looked at.

The various leads for each voltage are joined together on the board. It follows that the only effect of disconnecting some of (say) the 12-volt lines is to increase the load on the others.

The aim of going from P20 to P24 as the ATX standard was to increase the overall power capacity: you can still use a PSU with a P20 plug to power a P24 socketed mobo without disabling this or that. I wouldn't generally recommend it but IME it's possible.

As "proof", our neighbour is happily running her computer on a six-year-old P20 PSU I've lent her while I sort out a warranty claim on her P24 OCZ unit. Apart from the noisy fan, last I heard, it's fine.

HTH

Dave


Edits: 06/06/10
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