{"id":9859,"date":"2021-12-03T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=9859"},"modified":"2021-12-03T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T09:00:06","slug":"can-i-connect-a-6-pin-pci-e-into-a-4-pin","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/can-i-connect-a-6-pin-pcie-into-a-4-pin\/73499.html","title":{"rendered":"Can I Connect a 6 Pin Pci-e Into a 4 Pin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i dont know a lot about computers so im sorry if this is hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>i recently lost my power supply to my PC it was a APX-450 (ATX 2.03 [P4]),<br \/>\ni bought a new one which is a ATX-600 WCE-P4<br \/>\nwhen i saw the connections in what i believe is the mother board?..<br \/>\ni saw that there is a connection of only 4 pins available and the new power supply has a 6 pin minimum..<br \/>\ncan i just plug the 6 pin into the 4 pin and leave the 2 pins hanging there?<br \/>\nor is it possible to somehow cut off the 2 wires ?<br \/>\nany help would be appreciate \ud83d\ude42 thank you. (a bit urgent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":14},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9859","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/9859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}