Differences in PSU Cables

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gumbykid

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Are there differences in cables that have the same amount of pins/slots?

For example, could a 8-pin that plugs into the motherboard also power a GPU with an 8-pin slot?
And could a 6-pin PCI-e to molex cable plug into a modular PSU (that's 6-pin) to expand it?

It confused me that my PSU has a sticker on one 8-pin cable that says PCI-e while there is a separate 8-pin that is used for the mobo with no sticker.
 
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hunter315
Use the newegg photos for reference
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016

Your PSU has 1 red 6 pin and 4 black ones. The red one has a modular cable with a PCI-e end that plugs into it, the other 4 have modular cables with SATA/molex connectors on them that plugs into the PSU. Your PSU should have come with 5 modular cables that can plug into it, use those. If you no longer have those you can contact Antec and see about getting new ones, they don't have those modular cables listed in their spare part section at the moment.
http://store.antec.com/Category/accessory-spare_parts.aspx
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Not quiet sure how it works with this cable, but i imagine it it's something like this, you plug the PCI-E end into the PSU and you can use the molex end to connect other things

 
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That is sooo not how that cable works. Luckily the genders are set up so it is difficult to screw up and it will prevent you from using it to generate more molex connectors.

You take two molex connectors from your PSU, hook them into that adapter, and it creates a 6 pin PCI-e connector, you cannot go the other direction as a molex connector has 5V in it and a PCI-e connector cannot provide that.


If you want more molex connectors for your PSU, get a molex Y splitter, it turns one into 2, you can also get chains which will turn 1 into 4.
 
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Thanks for clearing that up.

My PSU has 4 6-pin slots. Aside from using the splitter, if I wanted to expand the cables what pin would I be looking for? All the 6-pin ones I find are PCI-e.

 
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Use the newegg photos for reference
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016

Your PSU has 1 red 6 pin and 4 black ones. The red one has a modular cable with a PCI-e end that plugs into it, the other 4 have modular cables with SATA/molex connectors on them that plugs into the PSU. Your PSU should have come with 5 modular cables that can plug into it, use those. If you no longer have those you can contact Antec and see about getting new ones, they don't have those modular cables listed in their spare part section at the moment.
http://store.antec.com/Category/accessory-spare_parts.aspx
 
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Well the PSU came with a used computer I bought and none of the black slots were filled. Newegg says it should come with 6 molex and 6 SATA. Mine has 3 molex and 0 SATA, so I guess I am missing quite a few cables.

Contacting Antec about a 5 year old PSU for some cables seems like a hassle, i'm fine with just using the splitters despite the mess. Thanks for your help.
 
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