Wire extension question

[sean126]

I am going to extented some of my wires so I can modify my case and hide the wires.

1. I bought a 24 to 24 pin extension. I just realized my psu has 20+4. The motherboard is 24 pin.

Will this 24 to 24 pin extension work without blowing my motherboard or psu or do I need to get a 24 to 20+4 extension?

2. Will just a regular headphone/microphone extension wire work with my hd audio wire coming from the front panel of the case....or do I need to just splice them for it to work? (My case has wires for hd audio or ac 97. I believe my motherboard needs hd audio.)

Thanks.

[Yellowhello]

For the motherboard extention, a 24 to 24 will work just fine. The only difference between a 24 and a 20+4 is that you can move the +4 wires out of the way so you can use it on an older motherboard.

I don't know about the audio, though.

[Dr. V]

Whoa wait a second...how the hell do you connect the front panel HD audio to your motherboard? I'm pretty sure it's a standard 7-pin connector (with one of the slots that has no pin). Never have I seen a motherboard that uses a 3.5mm connector onto the actual board. If this is what you're talking about, it will definitely not work.

We may need a bit more detail. I know I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about.

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[sean126]

On the antec 900 case....they have a headphone/microphone jack, you connect these plugs to the motherboard. My case has both...HD audio and AC97. My motherboard has a 9 pin slot on it. The HD has 9 wires and the AC has 7 wires. I believe my MB manual said I have to use the HD audio connection.

After looking again at the website where I was going to buy my extension ...I think I found the answer. They only sell the extension that has 7 wires in it, I assume it will only work on the AC97 and not on the HD audio wire.

I guess I have to splice, using a cat 5 wire to lengthen it.

[Dread]

If you're talking about using wire you bought from RadioShack or another retailer to extend your existing wires, the critical part is they should be equal to or of a larger ga. wire. Never go smaller. Ideally you should get the exact same ga. or 1 size larger if you plan on lengthening them more than
about 25% than the original wire.

[sean126]

Thanks Dread...I didn't know that.

I was browsing another forum and seen where this guy did an excellet mod job on the antec 900 and was saying how he had to lengthen headphone/mic wires on the case and that you could use either telephone cable (I assume this is different than the regular telephone cords you see all over) or cat 5 wire...which is ethernet cord wires. (I know they have cat 6 and cat 5...but he said cat 5)

I assumed he knew what he was talking about...but I will double check my ethernet wires with the wires I want to extend for the guages of them since you mentioned it. Thanks for the heads up Dread.