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Author Topic: Is it safe to use 8 pin CPU rail as a 8 pin pci-e (of course with a convertor)?  (Read 7991 times)
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February 19, 2014, 01:55:35 AM
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Same. Molex converters are bad. You are asking for melted wires. Literally.

The rule is 1 proper Pci-e power connector and one molex converter per card, never had any problems doing it that way.

You will one day. The PCI-E connector has 6/8 wires for a reason. You'll get away with it on graphics cards but ASIC hardware often goes well beyond the 75w/150w PC standard.

Ofc, but now I said "per card" hinting at graphics card usage where anything but a 7990 should be fine with a 6/8 pin + molex coverter. Besides 1x6 pin connector can handle 150w+ easily, just look at the overclocked antminers.
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