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Question: I see it has an 8 pin power connector not far from the CPU. Do you have to have an 8 pin psu plug? or can you use 4 pin plug?
Document: I bought this board along with an Intel i7 Quad-Core and 16GB of memory to upgrade my failing Compaq SR5123WM desktop. This board fit well inside the Comppaq case. I did replace the system fan and power supply, because neither would work with the new motherboard.Probably the biggest 'gotcha' with this board is the CPU power connector. Version 1.0 of this board has a 4-pin connector. Version 1.1 has an 8-pin connector.
I haven't plugged it in or put my PC together yet, I just wanted to let customers know that it ships with 2 SATA 3 CABLES. I didn't  know this because it isn't (or at least I didn't notice it) in product description, and oddly, "box contents" isn't on the retail box either, and also, there ARE two versions of this mobo, one with std. CPU 4-pin power and another with the 8-pin (HDE, I believe).
I ordered a 4-pin to 8-pin adapter when I ordered the board just in case. Turns out they sent me a version 1.1 board, so I needed the power adapter.I installled the board, and had it up and running on the first try. Installed Win7, and everything is good.
My Gateway motherboard crapped out so I bought this used Gigabyte mb to fix it.at a good price. I'm not a repair technician but have enough background to attempt to replace the mb. After a pretty easy swap out I noted I need a 4 to 8 pin adapter cable. Amazon Prime got it to me in a few more days. Installed the power cable and figured out how to install the drivers with the CD that came with the mb.
i purchased 4 of these mobos 3 from newegg and 1 from amazon and they all came with a 8pin cpu12v connecter when the graphic and description says its 4 so make sure your power supply comeswith a 8 pin cpu cable. i highly advise against using a adapter to convert a 8 pin to a 4 pincable unless you have a very low power cpu and even then your risking it. aside from that itsa great board that supports turbo cpus and sata3 which is all i wanted
You would think that when buying brand new computer hardware it would be exactly what you pay for. BRAND NEW. Something that is new usually tends to work. I've had this motherboard for five hours and it is already fried. Why? Because the 24 pin connector slot doesn't work. It doesn't fit right. It's flimsy and the cord can easily fall out with the tiniest bump of the tower, which is what happened to me. And now ever since it fell out, it won't turn on.
I using the onboard graphics using the CPU HD4000 GPU, so I still have  plenty of room for expansion in the future. The BIOS is now UEFI, more capacity, flexible and compatible, we can even use the mouse when making changes to the BIOS, that's really cool. I'm very happy with this motherboard.
The UEFI bios is a joy to use and in combination with Windows Defender can eliminate rootkits which operate below the level of the Windows operating system. I am using two Kingston 120GB solid state drives, one with Windows 8, on the SATA 3 port and the other with Windows 8.1 on a SATA2 port. Sequential read for Windows 8 is 443 MB/s, and for Windows 8.1 192 MB/s.
good board and I built a new pc for my VMware Virtual Machines withCorsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHzIntel Core i7-3770 Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155Antec VP-450 450 Watt Energy Star Certified Power SupplyI am happy
I bought this for a purpose-built computer that is a digital audio workstation (I use it with my digital piano). I don't require a lot of performance. Just a reliable mother board (I have an i3 processor in it). This motherboard has been reliable and offered good performance. And it was/is super cheap.I really like that it has 4 slots for RAM so I can upgrade that if necessary. I hate motherboards that are so cheap they don't have 4 slots.
Answer: Hi Katrin, you can have a 4 pin plug and It should work just fine. I have mine with a 4 pin and it works like a charm. Hope it helps.