24 PSU to 16 pin motherboard socket? Safe to solder together?

[Pod123]

I posted this to the PSU section also, hopefully it's not against the rules to post here also - TLDR at the bottom.

So I'm helping a friend upgrade his pc, but we ran into an issue with the psu to motherboard cable. The old PSU is only something like 230W so it's way too little to use for a 1050ti (runs off 75w through the pcie slot).

I've seen some videos of people splicing together the 16 pin cable with the new 24 pin cable to make it work. But will this be an issue with running the gpu through the graphics card?

There's also a load of adapters available, but this seems to be effectively the same thing.

The other option is to the use pci cables?

 

While we could go and buy a new motherboard, it's a 1150 socket so they're getting harder to find and it's very much a budget build if possible. Any thoughts?

 

 

TLDR: I need to connect a PSU with a 24 pin mobo cable, to a 16 pin mobo socket. Is it safe to splice the old and new cable? Will it supply the needed 75w for the 1050ti through pcie?

 

 

Example of adapter (instead of soldering):

[Kilrah]

6 minutes ago, Pod123 said:

I posted this to the PSU section also, hopefully it's not against the rules to post here also

It is, please continue in the other thread.

 

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