PSU PCI-e cable question

[eddykalex]

Budget (including currency): 4000 USD

Country: Switzerland

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Hi All,

I am building my very first PC and the PSU that I have is a Corsair HX1000 and according to the manual, the PSU comes with 8x PCIe cables however each one of them seems to have only 7 pins on the end that goes into the PSU? I bought an RTX 3090 Aorus Xtreme and I know that one needs a lot of power. Is it normal for the PCI-e cables to only have 7 instead of the 8 pins? Please see picture attached.

Thanks!

Eddy

[WhitetailAni]

That's what my 2x 6+2 cable had.

 

[Applefreak]

1 minute ago, eddykalex said:

Budget (including currency): 4000 USD

Country: Switzerland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Hi All,

I am building my very first PC and the PSU that I have is a Corsair HX1000 and according to the manual, the PSU comes with 8x PCIe cables however each one of them seems to have only 7 pins on the end that goes into the PSU? I bought an RTX 3090 Aorus Xtreme and I know that one needs a lot of power. Is it normal for the PCI-e cables to only have 7 instead of the 8 pins? Please see picture attached.

Thanks!

Eddy

Doesn't matter. There are probably 2 cables linked somewhere into a single connector, saving them a bit of copper on the connector. As long as the end that goes to the gpu has 8, your are good to go.

[eddykalex]

6 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Doesn't matter. There are probably 2 cables linked somewhere into a single connector, saving them a bit of copper on the connector. As long as the end that goes to the gpu has 8, your are good to go.

You are right, I took a better look and it does seem that one of those pins has 2 cables going into it.