I bought a PSU tester that has an 8 pin and 6 pin socket. My GPU has a 8 pin socket, and I use a 6+2 cable to power it, and it fits fine, but the 6+2 cable won't fit in the 8 pin socket on the PSU tester. I'm a noob so I didn't know why until I saw my 8 pin GPU socket has a small space under the bottom pin to allow the ridge on the 2 pin connector to fit, which the (cheap plastic) PSU tester socket doesn't have. My question is can I convert the 8 pin tester socket by making a gap, and will I be able to do it without damaging the tester?
I'm testing my PSU because I recently got a GTX 1660 Ti, but now my pc abruptly shuts down whenever I play moderately graphics intensive games (e.g. OW, plague tale innocence), but not with less graphic intensive games (like dead cells). This has happened twice and I'm wary of trying to play anything too heavy because I don't want to <Mod Edit> up the new card. I want to find out what's wrong though without sending it off to the shop. I did a RAM check, scannowed for errors and reinstalled windows, but the PC still shut down when I tried to play heavier games. My main question is about the socket but would appreciate any tips on this issue as well.
My specs, if needed:
Motherboard- ASUS prime H310M-E
CPU- Intel core i5-9400 CPU
GPU: ASUS TUF GTX 1660 Ti
RAM: DDR4 8 GB x 2
PSU- CM Masterwatt Lite 600 W 230 V
2 TB HDD
I'm testing my PSU because I recently got a GTX 1660 Ti, but now my pc abruptly shuts down whenever I play moderately graphics intensive games (e.g. OW, plague tale innocence), but not with less graphic intensive games (like dead cells). This has happened twice and I'm wary of trying to play anything too heavy because I don't want to <Mod Edit> up the new card. I want to find out what's wrong though without sending it off to the shop. I did a RAM check, scannowed for errors and reinstalled windows, but the PC still shut down when I tried to play heavier games. My main question is about the socket but would appreciate any tips on this issue as well.
My specs, if needed:
Motherboard- ASUS prime H310M-E
CPU- Intel core i5-9400 CPU
GPU: ASUS TUF GTX 1660 Ti
RAM: DDR4 8 GB x 2
PSU- CM Masterwatt Lite 600 W 230 V
2 TB HDD
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