rockertopper24

No I ran the PCIe 6 pin cable to the card and then took an old ATX-12V cable and literally split it in half between pins 1 and 2 up through 3 and 4 leaving pins 1 and 3 on the remainder of the cable. Trimmed the corners of pin 1 using a razor blade to make it fit, and the wired pins 1 and 3 of that cable together to act as a jumper from for pin 4 to 8 on the PCIe 8 pin connector.

Please explain to me what can go wrong. The graphics card is still receiving 150 watts of power so under heavy loads it still has adequate power supply.

ok so after doing some research on the pinout of the 8 pin pci express graphics card power cable I came to find that the first 6 pins are the same as the original 6 on the 6 pin cards. The additional two pins are ground and sense which the sense wire is just looking for ground. Looking further into the situation the additional ground pin shares common ground with the other 3 grounds on the cable so what I've done (that seems to be working temporarily as I'm using the card right now) is to take and old 4 pin atx 12v cable and cut it in half leaving me two pins ontop of each other. Then I simple wired those two pins together and the card works perfectly. I will be running benchmarks on it soon and will report back with the results.

this psu only came with 1 and ive looked all over and cant seem to find just this cable. I can find entire cable packages with every cable but i don't really need 60 dollars worth of cables just to use 1 from the package.

This was my thought process behind the situation as well but before I just went to plugging things in I thought I'd ask for a second or third or multiple opinions for that matter. Technically the cable is missing yes. I have it somewhere I just cant seem to find it. Moved recently and is probably packed away somewhere where I wont find it until after I buy a replacement lol.

I just recently acquired a gtx 1070 founders edition card. I will be upgrading from a gtx 960 but my issue is that I've only got a 6 pin connector to power my current card with. My psu is 1000watt but its fully modular and i seem to have misplaced the 6+2 cable. My question is can i still run the 1070 on the standard 6 pin connector for now or will it not be enough to power the card?