Can I Convert a 10-pin Lenovo PSU to Standard Connectors?

[CastleCrusher]

So I recently upgraded a Lenovo Ideacentre 700-25ISH, and I'm left with a 250 watt FSP power supply. It uses only two cables, a proprietary 10-pin for the Lenovo motherboard and a 4-pin EPS cable. I'm wanting to use it to power an external graphics card. There's adapters for the Lenovo motherboard but not the other way around. I'm not sure of what riser I'm going to use for the finished product, but for now I'm wanting to convert the two cables to a 6 or 8-pin connector(s). I'm assuming that both cables can handle enough current to be able to use at least most of the power supply.

 

Other than cable splicing and a bit of soldering, how would I go about making something like this work?

 

Thanks

[LienusLateTips]

You can try to buy one of those adapters from AliExpress... I've bought one before, and it worked fine, but I believe it was 14pin, not 10pin. 

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, CastleCrusher said:

I'm wanting to use it to power an external graphics card.

You will burn your house down. Don't use a shit PSU for something it wasn't designed to do.

[Gorilla Warfare]

Bad idea , when the PSU is a piece of junk.

[CastleCrusher]

19 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

You will burn your house down. Don't use a shit PSU for something it wasn't designed to do.

 

7 minutes ago, Gorilla Warfare said:

Bad idea , when the PSU is a piece of junk.

It was my understanding that FSP power supplies are okay in quality but maybe I'm wrong?

[CastleCrusher]

21 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

You can try to buy one of those adapters from AliExpress... I've bought one before, and it worked fine, but I believe it was 14pin, not 10pin. 

The only adapters I've been able find are to convert the motherboard connecter to be used with a standard ATX power supply, not the other way around.

[Gorilla Warfare]

Average at best. They do have some decent models. That is not one of them. It's not built\designed for what you want to run.

[CastleCrusher]

7 minutes ago, Gorilla Warfare said:

Average at best. They do have some decent models. That is not one of them. It's not built\designed for what you want to run.

Gotcha. I just didn't want to get something else if I didn't need to but looks like this isn't worth my time. Thanks!

[LienusLateTips]

32 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

You will burn your house down. Don't use a shit PSU for something it wasn't designed to do.

It's probably not absolutely dogshit, considering it's a relatively recent prebuilt, but yeah I just read this further and would NOT use that with an external GPU.

 

36 minutes ago, CastleCrusher said:

 but for now I'm wanting to convert the two cables to a 6 or 8-pin connector(s).

don't, they can't handle it most likely

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, LienusLateTips said:

It's probably not absolutely dogshit, considering it's a relatively recent prebuilt, but yeah I just read this further and would NOT use that with an external GPU.

Agreed, it's likely a decent PSU...when it's used for its original, intended purpose.

[LienusLateTips]

10 minutes ago, Gorilla Warfare said:

Average at best. 

They can make some of the best quality units in the industry if they wanted to. Straight Power 11, Dark Power Pro 11, Hydro PTM, etc. But again, this just happens to not be their finest.

[Guest]

57 minutes ago, CastleCrusher said:

Lenovo Ideacentre 700-25ISH

 

Can you post the model of the PSU rather than the model of the PC?

 

I can't tell if it has the correct voltages or not based on looking for the Ideacenter model.

[CastleCrusher]

9 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:

 

Can you post the model of the PSU rather than the model of the PC?

 

I can't tell if it has the correct voltages or not based on looking for the Ideacenter model.

It's an FSP FSP250-30AGBAA Rev. 1. I can attach a picture if needed.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, CastleCrusher said:

It's an FSP FSP250-30AGBAA Rev. 1. I can attach a picture if needed.

That's ok.  I can use Google.

 

So that is a +12V only PSU.  It doesn't have +3.3V, +5V, +5VSB...  It should be chucked in the garbage with the original motherboard.  Completely proprietary trash.