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Hello everyone, I'm doing some box cleaning and I found a bunch of cables which I'll ask for your help for identification, if you don't mind 🙃
So, as the title says, how do you call this cable?
Thank you!
It's a power adapter cable for inside a PC. It's an 8 pin to dual 6 pin PCI power adapter. You probably don't need it, it likely came with a PSU and wasn't needed for the build.
I definitely don't need it, just want to label it somehow, thanks for the info!
GPU Molex 8 pin (6+2) PCI Express male to 2 x Dual PCIe 6 pin Female Graphics Video Card PCI-E VGA Splitter Hub Power Cable (Some of the keywords like "VGA Splitter" are misleading or duplicate but most of it is correct)
That's a very catchy name :) Just rolls of the tongue
You can call it Greg.
Diky moc!
Dual 6 pin to 8 pin adaptor.
Generally used for high end video cards.
Older higher end video cards. Back in the day when a single 8 pin pcie cable wasn’t a given on your PSU so manufacturers just shipped that adapter.
Now we have the abomination that’s the 4x 8 pin to 12vhpwr and takes up 10 feet of space.
This your card?
Can it run Crysis?
still no
I think I'd go with something like Tedly or Lawrence.
I was thinking Emilio.
Puuhöylä
Ei ole puuhöylä
No haista vittu sitte
He he he he
prkl xd
Dunno what they are actually called (and I refuse to look it up) but I always called those 6 pin and 8 pin power connectors and people seem to know what I mean.
That is how I always called them as well, so we're good :D
Except there are several types with different pinouts, and you can destroy components with reverse polarity.
Hasn't really been an issue in the last 20 years for me and now those are really only used for the CPU power and AMD GPUs. Also aren't those curved pin cover things there specifically so you couldn't plug it into the wrong thing?
No, the manufacturers haven't standardized the pinout of physically connectible 6-pin and 8-pin connectors. Look at other comments like this one.
Oh yea, don't mix and match PSU cables, that's pretty common knowledge, just use the cables that come with the PSU and you're fine though. The adapter on the picture used to be pretty common and came with the PSU before modular PSUs became the norm though, not really used anymore from what I have seen.
It's an adapter for the power to a graphics card.
Most modern cards need the combined power of the two input cables, while many power supply units for compatibility's sake still only offer the two small cables and not a single big one.
So this adapter now usually comes with every graphics card you buy, and sometimes PSUs too, and they end up lying around.
Yeah, this definitely ended up lying around, thanks for the info!
You don't need it; just toss/donate/recycle it.
Any adapter you might need for a new GPU in the future will already be in the box.
No way! I just used one today with my second-hand GPU! Now I just have to figure out why it won't boot...
That's what I'm planning to do, however, I needed a name for posting it xd
Do I need to place the picture either in the title or in the post? Sorry, I'm noob here lmao
The way you posted it was fine
Thanks xd
Dave Or Davette
I thought it was Bob.
I used to call it Pepe
somewhat related PSA: never use old psu cables with a different model psu. As far as I understand it they aren't standardized as to which wires connect which pins, so you risk destroying components if you mix and match cables and psu