Question Replacement cable compatibility for a Modular PSU ?

[janos]

Greetings altogether,

As I'm in the middle of a hardware crisis right now and thus trying to debug as good as possible, I stumbled over one crucial compatibility question while trying to exclude the Power cable connected to my GPU from the dysfunctional hardware pieces.

So my PSU is a Enermax 750W Revolution DF 80+ Gold but I can't find any replacement cables in case the delivered ones are broken for some reason, so I was wondering if someone around here has an idea about what cable to actually get as a harmless option from a different brand without getting me to a short circuit on the darn thing...
The needed cable would be a PCIe 8 pin to 2x 6+2 Pin one. I've heard the Corsair ones are pretty universal compatible, but I simply can't verify this without ordering, pluggin it in and risking a meltdown.

Sry, if this appears overly careful here, but I am simply no expert for things like this and not long ago I still thought they all were universal compatible... luckily I never had to replace a PCIe cable before like this, bc the former ones all were all-in-one solutions without any modular plugs.

Anyways. As you can hear, I'm a bit exhausted by now, bc I am busy with the whole debug since two weeks now and every time, issues like that that shouldn't be an issue at all normally pop up and I am delayed for another session of hours with trying to find alts or workarounds.

Please someone help me with this one in hope this finally may solve my very weird, overall system issue.

Best wishes and thanks in advance,
Janos

 

[Lutfij]

so I was wondering if someone around here has an idea about what cable to actually get as a harmless option from a different brand without getting me to a short circuit on the darn thing
The simple answer to that is that not all PSU's have the same pinout. As such you should contact Enermax and see if they can send out a cable kit for a fee even. if that's not an option, you can probably contact a custom cable sleeving company and have them fabricate a custom set of cables that are meant specifically for your PSU with the right pinout. If you want to source the cable through another avenue, you can look up Ebay listings for the exact same PSU, you should be able to pick up cables for cheap.

I've heard the Corsair ones are pretty universal compatible, but I simply can't verify this without ordering, pluggin it in and risking a meltdown.
You might want to pass on where you've read or heard of this.

Further reading.

 

[Eximo]

My limited research says that the PSU is potentially a licensed modification of a CWT made unit, so it could very well be compatible with Corsair's Type 4 cables. The cable connectors on the PSU end do appear to match up with Corsair's standard layout.

As the further reading link suggests, plugging in the end to the PSU and checking the pin out between it and the original cables would be a way to make sure.

If it doesn't plug in easily to begin with, then it is keyed differently and you should stop there.

 

[triplex1]

Connect the cable from Corsair, get a multimeter, check if pinout corresponds