Is 8 pin cpu eps to dual 8 pin pcie adapter safe to use?

[Mango Milkshake]

I meant this one

[NTDaws]

EPS has another 12V line that maps to ground for PCIe. So if you try to plug in a EPS line into a PCIe plug, you'll kill the card.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

10 minutes ago, President Dawson Wehage said:

EPS has another 12V line that maps to ground for PCIe. So if you try to plug in a EPS line into a PCIe plug, you'll kill the card.

As long as that extra 12v line is unused it should be fine

 

Pcie connector has 3 12v lines

Eps has 4 12v lines

 

And from what i see on the picture, only 3 yellow cables (12v lines) are being used, and i bet 1 of the ground wires have been wired to become 2 ground wires to compensate for the lack of 1 ground wire, should be ok

[Skiiwee29]

You should never adapt power. If your current PSU does not have the required connectors, the proper and best thing to do is buy a proper PSU to suit your needs.

[Middcore]

I am trying to imagine the circumstance where it would make any sense to use this thing and failing.

 

I have a "spare" 8pin EPS in my system but I can't get a PSU with PCIe power for my GPU???

[MadPistol]

This seems like a really bad idea.

[NTDaws]

Dangerous still. This is a VERY bad idea.

1 hour ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

As long as that extra 12v line is unused it should be fine

 

Pcie connector has 3 12v lines

Eps has 4 12v lines

 

And from what i see on the picture, only 3 yellow cables (12v lines) are being used, and i bet 1 of the ground wires have been wired to become 2 ground wires to compensate for the lack of 1 ground wire, should be ok

 

[Spotty]

Which power supply do you have? Why do you need more PCIe connectors than what the PSU provides? System specs?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, President Dawson Wehage said:

Dangerous still. This is a VERY bad idea.

As long as the cable isnt total garbage it should be ok ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ 

 

Then again you know me and ill cheap out on anything, so if a 500w psu is enough but it doesnt have any pcie cables then ill just add them via adapters cause in my mind "what could possibly go wrong ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ "

 

[WhitetailAni]

36 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Then again you know me and ill cheap out on anything, so if a 500w psu is enough but it doesnt have any pcie cables then ill just add them via adapters cause in my mind "what could possibly go wrong ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ "

If a 500W PSU doesn't have any PCIe power cables, you shouldn't be using it because:

1. It's very old

2. It's garbage and will kill things

 

As for OP, it is technically safe but don't use it.

If your PSU doesn't have the connectors you need, get a better PSU.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

32 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

If a 500W PSU doesn't have any PCIe power cables, you shouldn't be using it because:

1. It's very old

2. It's garbage and will kill things

 

As for OP, it is technically safe but don't use it.

If your PSU doesn't have the connectors you need, get a better PSU.

Ive been running my freaking p5q pro that has a snapped off pin on the socket on like 13-14v on the 12v rail and 5.5-6v on the 5v rail with 3.3v being terminally at 2.8-3v

 

It still works so ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ 

But it is incredibly annoying to oc especially with those volts cause higher 12v = higher cpu voltage which is really annoying for ocing.

 

But the 3.3v issue seems to be a terminal issue with the board, ill try a better psu but if that psu also gets murdered then i guess i know why all those psus were dying xD

 

This issue with the psu volts has actually even caused on some rare instances, cpus running at 2.05v on accident

Even worse they are 45nm cpus which have a death zone voltage of around 1.9v+

 

And the cpus still survive and have no signs of degradation xD

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Mango Milkshake said:

I meant this one

It defeats the purpose.  The reason why there are two 6+2-PCIe is to distribute the load and reduce voltage drop. Not only are you not reducing the load, but you're adding resistance.  This is the dumbest product ever.