Need help with PSU.

[Tigerleon]

((I AM USING A CORSAIR RM750X PSU))

I want to buy a soundcard for my pc. It uses the pcie slot and a 6pin pcie power cable. The thing is. I don't know if I have any empty slots to be able to use it.
Here are my specs. Please look into my pc and tell me if I can connect a pcie 6pin connector.

RTX 2070

Intel core i7 9700k

corsair vengance 16gb ram.

1x HDD

Corsair Lighting Node PRO

((I AM USING A CORSAIR RM750X PSU))

[minibois]

2 minutes ago, Tigerleon said:

((I AM USING A CORSAIR RM750X PSU))

I want to buy a soundcard for my pc. It uses the pcie slot and a 6pin pcie power cable. The thing is. I don't know if I have any empty slots to be able to use it.
Here are my specs. Please look into my pc and tell me if I can connect a pcie 6pin connector.

RTX 2070

TL;DR: you have enough connectors, grab the second 6+2 pin PCIE cable.

 

Your PSU has four 6+2 pin connectors (where the +2 can be snapped off to make it a 6 pin). Your videocard probably uses one or two 6+2 pin connectors, so you will have two 6+2 pin leftover.

The four 6+2 pin connectors come on two cables, so perhaps you don't have the second cable plugged in, so you might have to grab that from the PSU box (or where-ever your stored it).

 

I am just wondering what soundcard uses a 6 pin PCIE, never really seen that.

[Tigerleon]

3 minutes ago, minibois said:

TL;DR: you have enough connectors, grab the second 6+2 pin PCIE cable.

 

Your PSU has four 6+2 pin connectors (where the +2 can be snapped off to make it a 6 pin). Your videocard probably uses one or two 6+2 pin connectors, so you will have two 6+2 pin leftover.

The four 6+2 pin connectors come on two cables, so perhaps you don't have the second cable plugged in, so you might have to grab that from the PSU box (or where-ever your stored it).

 

I am just wondering what soundcard uses a 6 pin PCIE, never really seen that.

The sound blaster ae-9. I think it is a 6 pin one. Tho I am not sure.

[Tigerleon]

It says 1 x 6-pin (PCI-e) Power Header

[minibois]

3 minutes ago, Tigerleon said:

The sound blaster ae-9. I think it is a 6 pin one. Tho I am not sure.

2 minutes ago, Tigerleon said:

It says 1 x 6-pin (PCI-e) Power Header

Yea, I see that on the website!

It's just not something I had ever seen before.

[Tigerleon]

Just now, minibois said:

Yea, I see that on the website!

It's just not something I had ever seen before.

I have this cable leftover? is this the one. 

[Tigerleon]

Also my GPU uses 2 6pin

[minibois]

6 minutes ago, Tigerleon said:

I have this cable leftover? is this the one. 

Yep, that cable.

 

You plug the green part into the PSU and either one of the red parts into the soundcard.

[Tigerleon]

1 minute ago, minibois said:

Yep, that cable.

 

You plug the green part into the PSU and either one of the red parts into the soundcard.

Thank you.

[Tigerleon]

12 minutes ago, minibois said:

Yep, that cable.

 

You plug the green part into the PSU and either one of the red parts into the soundcard.

I just remembered something. Does my watercooler use the other 8pin slot in the psu? It is the corsair hydro h100i platinum rgb

The thing is I bought my pc kind of prebuilt. Not actually prebuilt since I ordered it and chose the parts and they built it for me. So I don't know the cabling very well.

[minibois]

Just now, Tigerleon said:

I just remembered something. Does my watercooler use the other 8pin slot in the psu? It is the corsair hydro h100i platinum rgb

The watercooler uses a SATA power from your PSU (like a HDD or 2.5 SSD would use), a PWM header and USB 2.0 header (the latter two being on your motherboard).

Your 8 pin EPS goes to your motherboard, so no the H100i does not use an 8 pin

[Tigerleon]

9 hours ago, minibois said:

The watercooler uses a SATA power from your PSU (like a HDD or 2.5 SSD would use), a PWM header and USB 2.0 header (the latter two being on your motherboard).

Your 8 pin EPS goes to your motherboard, so no the H100i does not use an 8 pin

Hey thank you man. I went in and put a cable in. The thing is. I got scared when I was going to  put the cable in. I didn't see the last 8pin in the PSU because the other 3 was blocking my sight. I had to plug them out and the put them back in again. Is it okay to leave a cable hanging just like that in the case?

[minibois]

1 hour ago, Tigerleon said:

Hey thank you man. I went in and put a cable in. The thing is. I got scared when I was going to  put the cable in. I didn't see the last 8pin in the PSU because the other 3 was blocking my sight. I had to plug them out and the put them back in again. Is it okay to leave a cable hanging just like that in the case?

You mean if it's okay to leave the other 6+2 pin PCIE cable hanging, next to the soundcard?

Yeah, that's fine.

[Tigerleon]

29 minutes ago, minibois said:

You mean if it's okay to leave the other 6+2 pin PCIE cable hanging, next to the soundcard?

Yeah, that's fine.

No like put the cable in the psu for now before buying the soundcard 

[minibois]

1 hour ago, Tigerleon said:

No like put the cable in the psu for now before buying the soundcard 

Yes, that's also fine.

[Tigerleon]

13 minutes ago, minibois said:

Yes, that's also fine.

Thanks

[Tigerleon]

Update. Ordered the soundcard.