Hello everyone, I’m doing some box cleaning and I found a bunch of cables which I’ll ask for your help for identification, if you don’t mind 🙃
So, as the title says, how do you call this cable?
Thank you!
Dunno what they are actually called (and I refuse to look it up) but I always called those 6 pin and 8 pin power connectors and people seem to know what I mean.
Except there are several types with different pinouts, and you can destroy components with reverse polarity.
Hasn’t really been an issue in the last 20 years for me and now those are really only used for the CPU power and AMD GPUs. Also aren’t those curved pin cover things there specifically so you couldn’t plug it into the wrong thing?
No, the manufacturers haven’t standardized the pinout of physically connectible 6-pin and 8-pin connectors. Look at other comments like this one.
It’s a power adapter cable for inside a PC. It’s an 8 pin to dual 6 pin PCI power adapter. You probably don’t need it, it likely came with a PSU and wasn’t needed for the build.
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Dave Or Davette
You don’t need it; just toss/donate/recycle it.
Any adapter you might need for a new GPU in the future will already be in the box.
