I have a bunch of computer bits that I wan't to put together which includes a Radeon HD5850 graphics card that I need to conbnect to my Seasonic 500W PSU (SS-500HM), but I'm having a bit of difficulty.
My graphics card has 2nr 6-pin PCIe sockets, and my power supply (which ATI's website confirms as being suitable) looks to have 2nr of the same sockets (there's a tiny difference in that the hole for one of the pins (pin 5 I think) is square instead of having chamfered corners). I thought to myself that I would need 2nr cables to connect these sockets together, something along the lines of '6-pin to 6-pin male to male PCIe power cable', but I cannot find anything along these lines. Everything I look at with a male 6-pin plug on one end has got something different on the other end. Perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing here.
By the way, my PSU cables are a 24-pin ATX connector, a 4-pin ATX_12V connector (both needed on the motherboard I would imagine), and an 8-pin (2x4) connector that looks like a PCI connector, but I suspect isn't because the yellow cables are on the clip side (an 8-pin EPS +12V connector is it?).
I would appreciate any help you could give me please.
Regards,
Mark.
My graphics card has 2nr 6-pin PCIe sockets, and my power supply (which ATI's website confirms as being suitable) looks to have 2nr of the same sockets (there's a tiny difference in that the hole for one of the pins (pin 5 I think) is square instead of having chamfered corners). I thought to myself that I would need 2nr cables to connect these sockets together, something along the lines of '6-pin to 6-pin male to male PCIe power cable', but I cannot find anything along these lines. Everything I look at with a male 6-pin plug on one end has got something different on the other end. Perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing here.
By the way, my PSU cables are a 24-pin ATX connector, a 4-pin ATX_12V connector (both needed on the motherboard I would imagine), and an 8-pin (2x4) connector that looks like a PCI connector, but I suspect isn't because the yellow cables are on the clip side (an 8-pin EPS +12V connector is it?).
I would appreciate any help you could give me please.
Regards,
Mark.