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Purchasing a i9-9900K - Water Cooler or Air Cooler?

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Boy, Bob, my debt-list to you is growing and growing. With Xmas coming up, will have a real struggle😄

What can but say? A great big Thanks. Will need to check what the OS to buy is, £

Rick Almeida

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Eureka!

Finally got Windows 10 installed. NVidia drivers updated, etc, etc.

Just one snag. I have a dire need to fit a card reader, an Akasa. However, I cannot find a single spare 4-in straight line USB header anywhere on the motherboard. Additionally, I need a USB port too. That I can take care of buying an internal USB ports on a PCI-e card, but not that 4-pin USB header.

As I have only managed this new build thanks to the wizards here, hence I throw this out there again, for the final finish.

Rick Almeida

4-pin headers were used on the now long-obsolete USB1 ports...I haven't seen one of those on a motherboard for several generations now.  The Maximus XI boards won't have them.

Card readers are pretty cheap...I'd recommend you just get a USB 2 or 3 version that'll connect directly to one of the available 9 pin (USB2) or 19-pin (USB3) dual-port headers...or an external one that connects to one of the front/back panel USB sockets.

 

Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc
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Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE
Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro
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Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090
Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz,
3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU
Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro
PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box

Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090
Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus,
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3 hours ago, w6kd said:

4-pin headers were used on the now long-obsolete USB1 ports...I haven't seen one of those on a motherboard for several generations now.  The Maximus XI boards won't have them.

Card readers are pretty cheap...I'd recommend you just get a USB 2 or 3 version that'll connect directly to one of the available 9 pin (USB2) or 19-pin (USB3) dual-port headers...or an external one that connects to one of the front/back panel USB sockets.

 

Thanks, Bob. Have spent the entire night researching that.

Akasa have come out with a card reader that does exactly what you have advised, except the wholesaler I bought mine from, two days ago, is an obsolete model with that 4-pin header, and no one I have searched for, has that latest Akasa, so have dropped their sales people a line. I prefer front-mounted 5.25-bay card readers as I have a tendency with USB devices that when I put them down, can never find then again!😁

Rick Almeida

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