Rocketfish PCIe Pins are different from the standard PCIe Pins? Help!

[Bleak123]

I'm helping a buddy install a new graphics card in his rig and he asked me for a spare 8 pin pcie cable. I happened to have one I wasn't using from my seasonic PSU but when we went to install the cable we realized the pins don't line up with this particular PSU (there is squares where there is triangles on my cable) and upon searching the web their forum it seems they don't even sell PSUs anymore so asking them for a spare cable is out of the option

Here's the PSU

http://imgur.com/XiCveV6

I'd imagine a 8 pin PCIe cable is a 8 pin PCIe cable and I could just shave off the excess of the square pins on the cable to make it fit the PSU. Trying to not replace the PSU. Thoughts?

 

[ccampy]

If the PSU dosbt cone with 2 pcie cables then it dosnt support it especially as the pys sounds like a low quality one also the modular conecters on a PSU can be different from PSU to ousnot just the shape but the layout of the voltage line's e.g ground 12v ect.... So you could risk frying the GPU by using a different cable in it or you could overload the psu and damage your system

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You shouldn't use cables from other power supplies.

 

[IamTimTech]

I have a rocketfish 8pin connector I am not using if need be you can pm me, but I would recommend just replacing the PSU with a higher quality one.

 

[Eximo]

Generally modular cables are vendor/manufacturer specific. Sometimes even amongst the same vendor. I have two modular supplies from thermaltake and they have different molex configurations.

As long as the wire colors match up you should be okay doing that. If your friends supply is also modular it should have a full set of cables already somewhere.

Beyond that you could look at having a cable made. Lots of custom shops out there now.