how do i connect 8 and 6pin gpu to 6pin psu

adrianthrock

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I have a cooler master 800w silent pro gold and plan to buy an Asus r9 290 Dc2oc that requires 6+8pin pcie power. I've never installed a gpu and need to know what cables i should buy to connect it. I dont have cables from the psu and the gpu im buying is used and wont have cables. If you could leave links for cables, that would be awesome. The problem is the PSU doesn't have any 8pin slots, only two 6 pins.
 

adrianthrock

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So basically all i would need is that cable, and that would take care of both the 6pin and 8pin for the gpu? out of curiousity, would the max cards i could run in sli/cf be limited to two because of only having those two 6pins in the psu? i know two 290s would be too much wattage for this psu but hypothetically if it could handle that many watts, would it only handle two gpus?