Hey all,
I found some old threads discussing this, but wanted to create a new one because I thought my situation had some additional specifics that weren't covered there.
I just bought a RTX 3060 Ti (yay Microcenter!) and am in the process of installing it into a PC that has some older components (from 2013). Specifically, I have a Seasonic 620W power supply that has one 8-pin PCIe power cable and another 6-pin PCIe power cable. The max power draw for the GPU (from Nvidia) is 200W and they recommend atleast a 600W PSU to power it and it looks like I'm okay there.
I'm finding it kind of hard to find a new PCIe cable on Amazon or New Egg that's compatible with my PSU, so I'm planning to just get a 6-pin to 8-pin converter and using that to run power to the GPU. Is this okay? Are there good / bad quality connectors? I ordered the first one I found on Amazon - seems kinda expensive for running like 6 wires but hey who knows, rather not cheap out on these things.
Any thoughts on if this might be dangerous for the GPU?
I found some old threads discussing this, but wanted to create a new one because I thought my situation had some additional specifics that weren't covered there.
I just bought a RTX 3060 Ti (yay Microcenter!) and am in the process of installing it into a PC that has some older components (from 2013). Specifically, I have a Seasonic 620W power supply that has one 8-pin PCIe power cable and another 6-pin PCIe power cable. The max power draw for the GPU (from Nvidia) is 200W and they recommend atleast a 600W PSU to power it and it looks like I'm okay there.
I'm finding it kind of hard to find a new PCIe cable on Amazon or New Egg that's compatible with my PSU, so I'm planning to just get a 6-pin to 8-pin converter and using that to run power to the GPU. Is this okay? Are there good / bad quality connectors? I ordered the first one I found on Amazon - seems kinda expensive for running like 6 wires but hey who knows, rather not cheap out on these things.
Any thoughts on if this might be dangerous for the GPU?