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Written by John Chen   
Tuesday, 08 November 2005
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Connectors

Enermax has done a really great job with the mix match of connectors on their cables.  Unlike other companies that put all the same connectors on a single cable, Enermax mixed up the connectors so that you won't need as many cables for your system.  For example, instead of having a single cable with two SATA connectors, Enermax has the cable with a 4pin Molex, a SATA, another 4pin Molex, and then followed by another SATA.  This means that if you include older PATA drives with your SATA drives, you will only need one cable to stretch to your hard drive cage, instead of two.  There is a total of two 4pin floppy connectors, eight SATA connectors, and eight 4pin Molex connectors.  Connectors sure are plentiful.  For those who run high end gaming systems with dual video cards, there are two PCI-E connectors included.  The 24pin native ATX connector allows the extra four pins to be snapped off to fit older motherboards that use 20pin ATX headers.  The CPU dedicated 12v cable comes native as an 8pin connector.  For the majority of motherboards that do not use an 8pin header, the cable allows the connector to split into two 4pin connectors.  This eliminates the need to include two separate cables.  Lastly, there is a fan RPM monitor header to allow monitoring of the fan in the Liberty.  The shot below shows the Liberty installed in the Thermaltake Swing case.  I only needed a single cable to power my SATA drive, DVD+/-RW, and floppy drive.

 



 
 
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