My CX500 PSU has 6+2 PCI-E cable, but I need 1 8-Pin and 1 6-Pin

DiegoG

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Does someone know if my CX500 PSU has a 6pin connector? Because it has 6+2 which I can use to make 8pin, but I would still need a 6 pin to power my GPU. It requires One 6Pin and one 8Pin. Unfortunately I cannot buy cables and plug them into my PSU, as I am stuck with the ones it has, but I am not sure if it has another 6Pin, since it is a prebuilt and haven't looked behind the motherboard.
 
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The cx500 has 2x pcie connectors. A 6-pin and a 6+2-pin. It's buried somewhere. My concern is that together with the pcie slot you have a possible draw of 300w (150 + 75 +75), leaving 200w (or less) to power the rest of the system. I'd not push a high OC with that.
The cx500 has 2x pcie connectors. A 6-pin and a 6+2-pin. It's buried somewhere. My concern is that together with the pcie slot you have a possible draw of 300w (150 + 75 +75), leaving 200w (or less) to power the rest of the system. I'd not push a high OC with that.
 
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GTX 970. My friend has the same CX500M while I have the CX500, and he has had no problems. I have asked before and was told that 500W is the least that it requires. My GTX 660 uses about the same power as the 970 so I should be fine. I just didn't know if my PSU had the right cables.
 


Exactly what I wanted to know! Haha don't worry, I do not plan on overclocking the GPU, and my CPU is locked anyway 😛


 
Ok then, you'll be good with a 970 since that's only a 150w card on average, and most only use 2x 6-pin connectors, so we'll within tolerances even on a cx500. What separates a cx500 and a cxm500 is the capacitors on the secondaries. The CX uses cheap caps, the cxm uses Japanese caps, far superior quality.