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Connect floppy power cable to PCIe board???

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February 5, 2014 5:53:46 PM

Noob here... I want to add a USB 3 PCIe card to my PC and it requires 4-pin 5.25" "molex" power. The single power wire I have free is the one meant for the floppy drive, which is a 3.25" "mini-molex".

I looked everywhere and it seems there are no such adapters! I have about 14" between the power meant for the floppy drive and where the PCIe card would be.

Any solution??

Thanks!

DETAILS:
Dell XPS 8100 came with 350 W supply and outside of video card provides power for floppy drive (unused) and 4 SATA devices - all used (1 SSD, 2 HDD, 1 DVD/combo drive). Maybe, if is not possible to use the floppy drive or if it does not provide enough power, given teh fact that SSDs I think draw little power, maybe I can Y split the SSD SATA power into SATA and molex??)

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February 5, 2014 6:05:59 PM

Strategerizer said:
Noob here... I want to add a USB 3 PCIe card to my PC and it requires 4-pin 5.25" "molex" power. The single power wire I have free is the one meant for the floppy drive, which is a 3.25" "mini-molex".

I looked everywhere and it seems there are no such adapters! I have about 14" between the power meant for the floppy drive and where the PCIe card would be.

Any solution??

Thanks!

DETAILS:
Dell XPS 8100 came with 350 W supply and outside of video card provides power for floppy drive (unused) and 4 SATA devices - all used (1 SSD, 2 HDD, 1 DVD/combo drive). Maybe, if is not possible to use the floppy drive or if it does not provide enough power, given teh fact that SSDs I think draw little power, maybe I can Y split the SSD SATA power into SATA and molex??)




Yeah your only option is to y split.
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