[SOLVED] Power cable for Nvidia Geforce GTX1650 Super

[mootinw]

I am trying to install a new graphics card in my PC, a Geforce GTX1650 Super but am confused as to the correct power cable to use to link it to my PSU, which is a Corsair 750W CS series unit.

The PSU has both 6 pin and 8 pin ports available.

The graphics card has a 6 pin port.

My confusion is that both ports look like they accept a female PCIe plug i.e. if you look into the plastic openings, you see a metal pin rather than a sleeve. This seems unusual.... all I see available for purchase are male to female cables except for cables described as "extensions". If I use one of these female to female extension cables, do I risk damaging anything? Will it work? Any other advice, greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Photos:

Graphics card port

PSU ports

 

[RTX 2080]

I see what you're getting at. What you want is something like this:

PCIe Power Cable

Notice that the cable can function as either a 6 pin or an 8 pin and either end can be the PSU end or the GPU end.

An extension is something like this:

PCIe Extension

You would use this if you already had a cable that you could connect to your GPU and it wasn't long enough.

 

[DSzymborski]

I am trying to install a new graphics card in my PC, a Geforce GTX1650 Super but am confused as to the correct power cable to use to link it to my PSU, which is a Corsair 750W CS series unit.

The PSU has both 6 pin and 8 pin ports available.

The graphics card has a 6 pin port.

My confusion is that both ports look like they accept a female PCIe plug i.e. if you look into the plastic openings, you see a metal pin rather than a sleeve. This seems unusual.... all I see available for purchase are male to female cables except for cables described as "extensions". If I use one of these female to female extension cables, do I risk damaging anything? Will it work? Any other advice, greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Photos:

Graphics card port

PSU ports

You're not going to find them standardized because it's not some "female to female" cable. It's a modular power supply, which comes with the proper modular cables. You can't use modular cables from one modular power supply to another because they are absolutely not standardized on the side that connects into the power supply. This is not an "extension" issue.

If you use just any old cable, there's a very high chance you'll no longer have the component that you attach in this manner.

This power supply came with four PCIE cables. If you don't have them or you lost them, you have to either source the cables from talking with Corsair directly, find used cables from this exact power supply, or buy aftermarket cables that are confirmed to be compatible with this exact power supply.

 

[mootinw]

Thanks for both replies. Much appreciated.

The PSU is in a machine that was built for me by PC Specialist (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ ) in the UK and all cables are already in use. There are no spares in there that I can see. If any were supplied, I've clearly lost them.

I found this at the Corsair site: https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/psu-cable-compatibility#

So on the face of it, a Corsair PCIe cable is what I need. I didn't know the cables were specific to Corsair, so that's good to have discovered. I'm going to order one of these rather expensive Corsair cables (but cheaper than replacing a destroyed graphics card!): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L67R7TG?tag=httpwwwcorsai-21&linkCode=osi&th=1

It's unfortunate there's no photo of both ends of the cables but it's worth a try.

Thanks again.