So I'm in an annoying situation right now... I was in the middle of a playthrough of a new game, then my power supply broke. I have a backup, but it isn't powerful enough to run my graphics card, so I have to use my on-board gpu--and the newest games that that can run are from ~2003ish... So I went through a bunch of trouble to get a power supply from one of my older computers (which was actually in a different state... It's a long story), and after about 2 weeks of waiting for it, it doesn't have any 4-pin peripheral power cables, which my video card needs 4 of! It does however, have a bunch of extra SATA cables, which I think replaced the 4-pin cables, so it should do a similar thing?... Are there adapters that can help me out here, and if so, where would I get them?
SATA to 4-Pin Peripheral adapter?
- Thread starter Smausage
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- Apr 22, 2009
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I think you are referring to 6-pin PCIe connectors, not 4-pin peripheral. Generally, 4-pin peripherals are the common Molex: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/eK19kRmvjo6633OYNG5wLUC-3AZqE7HXCvJglMEapKz2dsYFvrc84ta6_JntzzpMw2nqVqYH7ABwzf4PwpiS-wr4l2eci2OxpMOaIuK4Rr7gms81UUmYcl2dwffeAQEBLw
But if you are indeed trying to run a high performance card that requires 2 x 6 or 8 pin connectors by using Molex to PCIe adapters, I suspect the PSU isn't powerful enough to safely use. And you don't want to use the SATA connectors because they have a much lower current carrying capacity than the Molex connectors.
But if you are indeed trying to run a high performance card that requires 2 x 6 or 8 pin connectors by using Molex to PCIe adapters, I suspect the PSU isn't powerful enough to safely use. And you don't want to use the SATA connectors because they have a much lower current carrying capacity than the Molex connectors.
I figured out what was wrong. My graphics card does indeed take the 6-pin connectors, but the ones that came with it actually were adapters for the 6-pin to the 4-pin. No clue why it came with that, or why it took me so long to realize that I could just use the 6-pin connectors. :/
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