[SOLVED] Where am I supposed to buy a 6pin to 6pin PCI-E cable?

[SocJusWonder]

I recently picked up a RX 580 graphics card, It has an 8 pin connector and a 6 pin connector, from what I understand the 6 pin is technically optional unless you plan to overclock, but I'd like to get the 6 pin filled if I can. But I'm running into a problem.

My PSU (a Corsair CX 550m) Has about four plugs for PCIE cables, one of which is an 8pin plug, the others are 6 pin plugs. I only have one 8 pin plug, I have the 8 pin plug taken up by the 8pin to 6+2pin I have for the first connector, but I can't find any 6pin to 6pin or 6+2pin to 6+2pin or anything like that I could use. the only 6 pin cables I can find are 6pin to SATA cables, and I don't need that.

I found a 6pin to 6pin on https://www.moddiy.com/products/Cor...-to-6%2dPin-PCI%2dE-Modular-Cable-(30cm).html but i'm not sure if it's legit yet, and most 6pin to 6pins i find online are extension cables, and not power cables.

What am I to do?

 

[Wolfshadw]

As @SkyNetRising alludes to, it's not that it will happen. Only that it CAN happen and you've been shown evidence of that. If you want to risk losing your brand new card (not to mention the possibility of your entire computer) because you've seen evidence to the contrary of what you've been told here, that is entirely up to you.

-Wolf sends

 

[lynx1021]

You can contact corsair and try to get your lost cables for your PSU it should have 2 PCIE that one can be used as an 8 pin and the other as a 6 pin with 2 pins hanging off to the side.

 

[DSzymborski]

Feels like the OP is confusing a GPU thing with a CPU thing. It's CPUs in which the extra connector is for overclocking.

 

[R_1]

"first of all, how would it result in melted cables that doesn't make any sense if anything it should result in the card not booting, not getting hot enough to do that. it's less power. "


the ends melt from resistance. resistance in the wire from carrying too much current, the wire heats up, the sockets where the wires connect heat even more. as the power needs rise the PSU delivers through the only path available and the current creates heat which is worse at connections, hence melted socket from only one cable. the extra socket provides the extra paths for the current to travel keeping the paths cool.

this is why damage happens at the socket or the PCIe slot as has been shown in the thread.

a power cord is rated to a certain power rating, say 1650W, and you draw 1800W, that wire will get hot, that wire might melt the insulation, that wire might melt, why? resistance to the current.