[SOLVED] Purchased a new Asus RTX 2080 Super gpu, questions about installing

[Ben Meekin]

Hi there, i have purchased the said card mentioned above, i am upgrading from a GTX 1070, the 1070 uses a single 8 pin cable however the new GPU uses two 8 pin cables, i am very green when it comes to PCs and different cables, i've noticed that i have several 6 pin cables that seem to be coming from the power supply which is a corsair CX750.

My question is, is my pc likely to have an extra 8 pin cable somewhere inside or do i need to get an entire seperate 8 pin cable and connect it that way, sorry for how basic this question is but i'm very new to this.

 

[gamenadez]

Open your case. Your PSU Connection have 4 PCIE Cable.

1 x 24-pin ATX Cable
1 x EPS12V/ATX12V Cable (4+4)
4 x PCIe Cable (6+2)
8 x SATA Cable
8 x PATA Cable

 

[geofelt]

You are ok.
The cables will be of the 6+2 type.
That allows the cable to be used in either 6 or 8 pin slots.
For 6 pin use, the +2 is just left dangling.