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Started by Jahoosawa | | 1 answers
PCI-E Female to Female Connector??
Recently sent in a faulty EVGA SR2 motherboard to be exchanged under warranty. New make requires more power than the original board via 2 6-pin (2x3) PCI-E. This has left me short 2 6-pin female to female cables with which to power the second of my nvidia GTX 570 graphics cards. I can't find a 6-pin female to female PCI-E power cable for the life of me. I believe the two I have came with the power supply. I am working with a Corsair HX1000W power supply. The back of the supply has 4 blue 8-pin (2x4) male ports, and 6 black 6-pin (2x3) male ports. All 4 of the blue 8-pin ports are all taken, as are 2 of the 6 black 6-pin ports.

Is it okay to splice together a 6-pin female to female cable from a couple 6-pin extensions? I'm in a time bind for a large public event this Saturday :\
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October 14, 2014 7:21:15 PM

The 6-pin connectors on that PSU are not PCIe; they're a custom pinout with 3.3V and 5V for peripherals, not just 12V and Gnd. Connecting a PCIe cable to them would probably cause a fire, if it fit in the first place.

Get a couple of PCIe double adapters or a 8-pin to 2x6-pin cable.

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