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What are ATX power rails?
Standard ATX power supplies have several power rails, used by various components. Our DC-DC converters take 12V in and produce several ATX compliant voltages as follows:

Rail Circuit Type Board Type Comments

12V

3.5", 5.25 motors, fans, P4 power mostly P4 boards (lots of power), FET drive on all boards (little power). Use PW-120/200  when using 3.5" drives or P4s
5V General M/B and disk circuitry, Memory, laptop drive motors All Boards All our DC-DC converters have adequate power on this rail
3.3V CPU core, Memory EPIA-5000, 800, V, M-10000, CL, EPIA-MS,  etc All our DC-DC converters have adequate power on this rail
-12V Some older serial comm. chipsets EPIA-M, EPIA-M2 (EPIA-5000/800/V does not use the -12V for serial ports) Check the serial driver chipset. Modern serial chipsets do not use the -12V rail.
-5V Obsolete NONE Removed per ATC12V power supply guideline. Used only by ISA cards

+5SB

Memory, vital sleep functions ALL

Uses little power

My motherboard has a 24-pin ATX connector. Will a 20-pin ATX power supply (such as the picoPSU series, PW-200 series and M2-ATX) work with it?
In most cases, it will work without any problems. If you need more power, you can get the 20-pin to 24-pin adapter or our 24-pin ATX power supplies (M4-ATX and the picoPSU-150-XT).
 
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